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Issue: Challenge of the Unknown #6 Public Domain
Publication Date: September 1950
 
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Issues: #6 of 1 Issue
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagAce Magazines
Brand: An Ace MagazineView Brand Images
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): ?
Disclose Notes: Formerly "Love Experiences."
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Colorist(s): ?
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Genres: horror
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Reprint in "The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics!" (IDW, 2010 series) #18 certain about the artist credits.
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High Priestess of the Snake People

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: horror
First Line: You've been very kind to show me your pipes, madam, but tobacco is all I'll be needing.
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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe 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
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True Tales of the Supernatural #1

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Genres: horror, occult
First Line: Among a certain noble family of Scotland...
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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWeb of Mystery #29 published September 1955
as True Tales of Unexplained Mystery #55 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
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The Ghost in the Portrait

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
First Line: See yon mansion? It speaks of peace and home and love.
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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagBaffling Mysteries #18 published November 1953
as The Ghost in the Portrait [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 7
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True Tales of the Supernatural #2

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Genres: horror, occult
First Line: There is a legend about a ghost-infested cell...
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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Genres: horror
First Line: A full moon rises over the Villa Di Pini.
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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWeb of Mystery #19 published July 1953
as Villa of the Vampire [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagHorror Tales v3 #5 published September 1971
as The Vampire Lives! [Story on Interior Page(s)]reworked
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Pages: 7
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Unburied Dead

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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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In Content Item: FlagThe Hand of Fate #8 published December 1951
as Unburied Dead [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 2
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No Grave to Hold Him

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Genres: horror
First Line: I am dying of an incurable disease.
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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In Content Item: FlagWeb of Mystery #21 published November 1953
as No Grave to Hold Him [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 7
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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
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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
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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
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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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Pages: 1
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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
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Unburied Dead

Text Story  on  (unknown)
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Synopsis: A gruesome story about hypnotism gone very, very bad.
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Pages: 2
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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
Disclose Notes: References to Frankenstein's Monster.

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