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Issue: Challenge of the Unknown #6

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Publication Date: September 1950

Issue #6

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Issues: #6 of 1 Issue

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Publisher: Flag

Ace Magazines

Brand: An Ace Magazine

Indicia Publisher: Ace Magazines, Inc.

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: none

Pages: 36

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency: none

Content Items: 15 (14 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): ?

Notes: Formerly "Love Experiences."

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Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: Color

Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S.

Paper Stock: Glossy cover

Binding: Saddle-stitched

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6 Content Items

reprinted 7 times as Content Items in other Issues.

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Content Items (15 total)

[untitled]

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Credits

Penciller(s): Warren Kremer ?

Inker(s): Al Avison ?

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

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Pages: 1

Notes: Reprint in "The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics!" (IDW, 2010 series) #18 certain about the artist credits.

High Priestess of the Snake People

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Frank Giusto

Inker(s): Frank Giusto

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Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Synopsis: In the Swiss Alps, a young american stumbles across a cult of snake-worshippers. He is bewitched by the beautiful snake queen Gilda. An old villager comes to his help and blows the whole bunch to kingdom come with a pack of dynamite.

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In Content Item: Flag

The Hand of Fate #19 published August 1953
as High Priestess of the Snake People [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Pages: 7

True Tales of the Supernatural #1

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Genres: occult

Synopsis: "Among a certain noble family of Scotland, there was a legend..." If a family member hears the beating of drums, another member is stricken by tragic death. It so happens.

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In Content Item: Flag

Web of Mystery #29 published September 1955
as True Tales of Unexplained Mystery #55 [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Pages: 1

The Ghost in the Portrait

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Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Ken Rice

Inker(s): Ken Rice

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Synopsis: A young couple free the ghost of an evil ancestor. He takes revenge on the bones of the people who sentenced him to death. Then he commands the man to murder his wife, as he did with his wife. The woman manages to destroy the evil spirit in the last moment. The couple lives happily ever after.

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In Content Item: Flag

Baffling Mysteries #18 published November 1953
as The Ghost in the Portrait [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Pages: 7

True Tales of the Supernatural #2

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Genres: occult

Synopsis: "There is a legend about a ghost-infested cell in a jail in New Orleans..." The inhabitants of this cell become suicidal because of the ghost of an old woman who hanged herself in it.

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Villa of the Vampire

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Lin Streeter [as Lin] (signed)

Inker(s): Lin Streeter [as Lin] (signed)

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Genres: horror

Synopsis: A vampire haunts an Italian villa. The inhabitants are decimated. With the help of a doctor and a blood transfusion, the husband can save his wife and kill the creature of darkness.

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In Content Item: Flag

Web of Mystery #19 published July 1953
as Villa of the Vampire [Story on Interior Page(s)]

In Content Item: Flag

Horror Tales v3 #5 published September 1971
as The Vampire Lives! [Story on Interior Page(s)]reworked

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Pages: 7

Unburied Dead

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Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): Typeset

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Genres: horror

Synopsis: Man hypnotizes wife, but summons demon in the process. They fight over possession of the woman's body. Her body explodes. Man is arrested and sentenced to death.

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The Hand of Fate #8 published December 1951
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No Grave to Hold Him

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Mike Sekowsky ?; Arthur Peddy ?

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Genres: horror

Synopsis: To live on after his demise, the brain of a dying professor is planted into the body of an executed criminal. His gangster pals kidnap him to find the hidden money from their last robbery. Dramatic showdown on an airfield landing strip. The bad guys are killed, the professor's assistant regains control over the Frankenstein-like creature. Hidden from the public, it lives on scribbling formulas.

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Web of Mystery #21 published November 1953
as No Grave to Hold Him [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Pages: 7

High Priestess of the Snake People

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Synopsis: Michael Corning is in a tobacco shop run by a very old woman. Her daughter is young and beautiful, of course, and convinces the guy to go to the woman's hometown. The daughter basically controls his mind. She's part of a group of snake worshipers that changes people into snappers. He gets bit but an old man helps him deal with the snake people.

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Pages: 7

True Tales of the Supernatural #1

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Synopsis: A guy marries a woman. His family has a legend of hearing drums when someone in the family dies. He hears the drums in London and finds out his wife died in Scotland.

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Pages: 1

The Ghost in the Portrait

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Synopsis: A story about a guy who tells another not to open a trunk in the house and, of course, he does, finding a portrait that is evil. A ghost from the portrait is of a man that killed his wife. The ghost disturbs the graves of the twelve people who condemned him to be hung. The ghost wants the young man to kill his wife.

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Pages: 7

True Tales of the Supernatural #2

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Synopsis: A story about a jail cell in New Orleans where a number of people had hung themselves. The ghost of a woman who had died in the cell was causing the people in the cell to kill themselves.

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Villa of the Vampire

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Feature(s): Villa Di Pini

Synopsis: Two women buy a villa and are warned that a vampire is there and takes victims every so many years. The mother is greedy and falls victim to the vampire. The evil influence of the mother causes the daughter to reject her husband, yet he saves her from the same vampire.

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Pages: 7

Unburied Dead

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Synopsis: A gruesome story about hypnotism gone very, very bad.

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Pages: 2

No Grave To Hold Him

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Synopsis: An interesting story about a major scientist who dies and his brain ends up in the body of a thug that had been killed, and then what happens afterward.

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Pages: 7

Notes: References to Frankenstein's Monster.