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ISSUE SUMMARY

Publisher: Ace Magazines
Title: Web of Mystery
Page Count: 36
Genre: Horror / Suspense
Era: Golden Age
Cover Price: 0.10 USD
Cover Date: April 1952
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Country: United States
Convict Duval escapes a penal colony by taking on another man's identity and transferring his fingers to him (so the fingerprints will match). Living his new life in Paris, Duval learns that his adopted identity was a murderer who coated dead women with wax and sold them as storefront dummies. He continues this line of work (the fingers do it by themself), but gets punished by the ghosts of the dummies. Duval ends as his own wax puppet.; Walter Prado finds a ruby containing a djinn. After fulfilling his wishes for money, power and health the genie goes for Prado's soul. Prado ends broken, mad and his soul forfeited.; American tourist gets involved in a Scottish clan feud. Assisted by the ghost of his great-grandfather he can avenge foul deeds of history and overcome the evil landowner Blackford.; In the Canadian wilds, Peter Jordan encounters an indian princess and her underground zombie tribe. By killing the evil princess, Jordan can destroy their cult and escape their strange realm under the Devil's lake.; "Somewhere in the forests of Austria, there is a hunting lodge where a terrible tragedy took place..." An American tourist seeks shelter in the haunted lodge and witnesses the ghostly reenactment of a crime.; "One of the greatest puppet makers of Europe was a frenchman named Andre Ulmer..." When the puppet of a killer commits a murder, Ulmer is held responsible and thrown into an insane asylum.