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Issue: Web of Mystery #15 Public Domain
Publication Date: November 1952
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Issues: #15 of 29 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagAce Magazines
Brand: AceView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: A. A. Wyn Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume:
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 8 (7 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age U. S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jim McLaughlin
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Famine of Chichen-Itza

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jim McLaughlin
Inker(s): Jim McLaughlin
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, fantasy, occult
Synopsis: The land of Yucatan is threatened by famine. Agricultural scientist Barry Paxton meets Mayan princess Janva. Together they travel back in time and discover vast grain supplies held back by thieving king Tolextl.
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In Content Item: FlagZombie #7 published January 1961
as The Famine of Chichen-Itza [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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The Dreadful Night

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Charles Nicholas ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: The hobo Matty Ross meets a conclave of witches in the woods and is tricked into taking their blood money - and thus forfeiting his life. He is saved by witch-hunting townspeople, but pays for his sins by going blind.
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In Content Item: FlagMystic #25 published January 1962
as The Dreadful Night [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagHorror Tales v3 #4 published July 1971
as The Witches Coven [Story on Interior Page(s)]reworked
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Death Never Takes a Furlough

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Lin Streeter
Inker(s): Lin Streeter
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Four GIs run into a vampire trap in a German castle. They get slaughtered one by one. The last one manages to stake the vampire and shoot down her goulish henchmen.
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In Content Item: FlagMystic #25 published January 1962
as Death Never Takes a Furlough [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWitches Tales v4 #1 published February 1972
as House of the Vampire [Story on Interior Page(s)]reworked
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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True Tales of Unexplained Mystery #30

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult
Feature(s): True Tales of Unexplained Mystery
Synopsis: "When Kublai Khan was the emperor of the great Mongolian empire in 1259 A.D., his conquest of China brought him great wealth..." The ghost of the Khan guards his hidden treasure in person, bringing down an avalanche on all intruders.
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Curse of the Yogi

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, horror, occult
Synopsis: A British major is haunted by a Yogi curse and finally killed.
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Pages: 2
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Mirror of Mephisto

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Charles Nicholas
Inker(s): Charles Nicholas
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Synopsis: Ralph Dana discovers a parallel universe behind a magic mirror, ruled by the devil. Dana fabricates more of Mephisto's mirrors and lures his relatives into the mirror world, so he can dig up a family treasure alone. His plan fails miserably and he is caught in the mirror.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Tomb v3 #4 published August 1971
as The Devil's Looking Glass [Story on Interior Page(s)]reworked
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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True Tales of Unexplained Mystery #29

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Feature(s): True Tales of Unexplained Mystery
Synopsis: "In a certain section of London, there is a huge, old prison still in use. Strangely enough, one cell of this prison is never used..." Because an "old hag" hanged herself in that cell, every other inmate tries to commit suicide this way as well.
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Pages: 1

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