Dates
- Cover date
- March 1953
- On sale
- November 7, 1952
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Web of Horror · 9 pages
Dr. Weir travels to the Valley of Horror to visit his friend Dr. Italo Schiasi. Unfortunately, Dr. Schiasi is already dead at the hands of a giant spider. Dr. Weir accuses Baron Latro of killing him out of jealousy. The Countess Arachni manages to steal the Purple Claw from him. When Weir travels to her castle he is caught in a web. The Countess rescues him by killing Baron Latro in his spider form and taking Dr. Weir to her castle. Because he knows too much the Countess also transforms into a giant spider. He recovers the Purple Claw to defeat the Countess.
- The Killer In the Snow · 7 pages
A skiing party is confronted with a killer snowman - avenging his murder years ago. One by one the wrongdoers meet their icy fate. Dr. Jonathan Weir aka "The Purple Claw" can only save himself.
- The Serpent Strikes · 8 pages
Dr. Jonathan Weir battles Leera, a weresnake woman preying upon a befriended couple.
- Brief Stop at Lambeau · 2 pages
Parisian killer Henri Roche awakes in limbo and meets the cursed hangman of the afterworld - who will hang him again.
- U.S. Marines in the Boxer Rebellion · 1 pages
Historical account of US intervention in China, summer 1900.
Characters
Reprinted in
Tales of Horror (1952), FemForce (1985), Tales Too Terrible to Tell (1989), Purple Claw Mysteries (1994), Crypt of Horror (2005)