Web of Mystery #12 Davis Crippen ("D" Copy) pedigree (Ace, 1952) CGC VF 8.0 Cream to off-white pages. John Chilly's first co...

Auction amount: $143.40

Sold: Oct 15, 2006

Web of Mystery #12 Values

Publisher: Ace Magazines, 1952

About Web of Mystery #12

John Chilly's first cover art. Don Cameron art.

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COVER DETAILS

Pencils: John Chilly

Inks: John Chilly

Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)

Notes: Information via an Ebay auction. Looks consistent with Chilly's other cover for The Beyond #16.

STORY DETAILS

(7 Stories)

Title: The Arm of Tatra Magis

Synopsis: During the eclipse of the sun, an expedition in Mongolia makes the acquaintance of undead Khan Tatra Magis and his horde of riding mongol zombies.

Pages: 7.000

Pencils: Ken Rice

Inks: Ken Rice

Reprints: Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #4 (August 1971)

Title: True Tales of Unexplained Mystery #23

Synopsis: "Some of the most mysterious and little known places of the world are the small villages and oases of the Sahara desert..." American photographer witnesses a duel of two Arab horsemen, who have been dead for thirty years.

Pages: 1.000

Title: The Footlight Furies

Synopsis: Ambitious actress Inez Fane finds a mentor - a female vampire! Fane gets fame, but turns into a vampire as well. On a nightly hunt for blood, both crash blinded into Hollywood floodlights.

Pages: 7.000

Pencils: Chic Stone

Inks: Chic Stone

Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)

Reprints: Tales from the Tomb (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #3 (June 1971)

Title: True Tales of Unexplained Mystery #24

Synopsis: "In Venice, the tale is told about a huge black raven which one day suddenly swooped down and snatched a ruby necklace off the neck of the duchess of Venice..." 400 years later the same incident happens to a woman who buys the famous ruby necklace.

Pages: 1.000

Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)

Title: The Carpenter's Cursed Creature

Synopsis: Carpenter Brinkman commits a murder. The blood touches a ten-feet-high Frankenstein-like wooden statue and makes it come alive! Brinkman tries to flee his evil creation and finally sets it on fire. He dies in the embrace of the wooden monstrosity.

Pages: 7.000

Script: Robert Turner

Pencils: Bill Molno

Inks: Bill Molno

Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)

Reprints: Tales of Voodoo (Eerie Publications, 1968 series) #4 (July 1971)

Notes: Robert Turner lists this as one of the stories he wrote from late 1950 - 1952, in his book "Some of My Best Friends Are Writers..." (1970).

Title: Threshold of the Forbidden

Synopsis: Female first-person narrator relates the following mystery: Every person she knew in life has suddenly vanished without any trace of existence. Narrator feels the same is going to happen to herself.

Pages: 2.000

Letters: typeset

Title: The Silver Bell of Doom

Synopsis: Feeble-minded Luis Diego resurrects a witch who has been hanged. They flee the town, get married and live in wealth. Then Diego gets greedy and bored with his witch-wife. He binds her and burns her to death. Haunted by his action, he commits another murder, is caught and hanged by the neck.

Pages: 7.000

Pencils: Lou Cameron

Inks: Lou Cameron

Reprints: Witches Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #3 (June 1971)

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CGC Census Report*

Grade	0.5	1.0	1.5	1.8	2.0	2.5	3.0	3.5	4.0	4.5	5.0	5.5	6.0	6.5	7.0	7.5	8.0	8.5	9.0	9.2	9.4	9.6	9.8	9.9	10.0	Total
Universal	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	3	0	4	6	1	2	0	3	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	25
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Restored	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	3	0	4	6	1	2	0	3	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	25

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