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ISSUE SUMMARY

Publisher: Ace Magazines
Title: Web of Mystery
Page Count: 36
Genre: Horror / Suspense, Fantasy
Era: Golden Age
Cover Price: 0.10 USD
Cover Date: June 1951
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Country: United States
A violin is charged with a gypsy curse: the person who plays it, will commit a murder. The evil instrument goes through three murderous hands, before it can be destroyed.; A potion of super-human strength changes timid Dr. Lorch into an primordial cave-man hunting for flesh and killing people in his way. In the end Dr. Lorch finds his master in confronting a circus gorilla. The potion is destroyed.; A man has to get to his pregnant wife in San Francisco. All planes are grounded because of heavy fog. A passenger plane has crashed in the mountains already. The man gets his flight on a small private plane coming out of nowhere. The pilot is the ghost of the crashed plane.; In an american museum a mummy comes alive. Dramid cheated egyptian death-god Osiris for 5.500 years and walks the earth again. Police cannot stop him. A mysterious stranger comes to help, disrobes and reveals himself to be Osiris - claiming Dramid for the realm of the dead.; "Shortly after the discovery of America, Don Carlos Rodriguez de Castro, a spanish nobleman, was condemned as a political enemy..." De Castro became a pirate, fought the spanish crown and hid his treasure well. Anyone who tried to take away the loot, was cursed and died on the instant.; "In 1943, Major Carlton Field of english intelligence returned to London following failure on a secret mission..." Major field encounters Dmitri Falakian, who claims to be in possession of a liquid of eternal youth. Showing it to Field, he loses it and lets it drop to earth. As the vial shatters, Falakian crumbles to a skeleton, because he is 378 years old.