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Web of Evil #17

Quality Comics · Series began 1952 · August 1954

Dates

Cover date
August 1954
Pages
36

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Charles Nicholas, Louis Ravielliinks: Louis Ravielli

Stories

  • Return of the Dead · 9 pages

    Serge Lamont builds a machine to communicate with the dead. He uses it to learn all the magic secrets of the recently deceased magician Zendali. Zendali, however, comes back to full life and takes Lamont back to his grave.

  • The Fiend Who Lived Forever · 6 pages

    A scientist is able to make himself immortal through experimentation on human victims. He robs banks to gather enough wealth to marry his sweetheart. Nothing can kill him as he is able to survive being burned, drowned, shot at, etc. The problem is while he may be immortal, his body shows the trauma of his wounds and he's oblivious to the fact he looks like a monstrous mangled 'fiend'.

  • Terror in Chinatown · 7 pages

    The collector August Lamont searches frantically for a Chinese “book of the dead” holding great secrets. Lamont murders two book dealers to get his hands on the tome. By opening the book Lamont suffers terrible visions of past crimes – the last one showing his own murder.

  • Death's Challenge · 1 pages
  • The Avenging Ghosts · 6 pages

    Gangsters Pete and Joey escape from their prison island in a motorboat and land on the “island of honesty” where no crime ever happens. Anyone who steals something will be imprisoned in a madhouse while his spectral form is doomed to cruise the coastline on a ship of ghosts forever.

Reprinted in

Crypt of Horror (2005), Haunted Horror (2012), Doomsday (1972), The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! (2010)

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