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| "Brew of Death," the text-only story in this issue, feels like the climax of a longer story. I'm curious whether anyone knows the source of this or the other 2-page text stories in this series. |
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| Publication | December 1951 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
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| Comic Story | The Vampire's Weird Duel (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | In modern Luxemburg, two farmers pluck an ancient sword out of the soil, thus reviving the bloodthirsty Baron Des Garennes. The baron was a general and vampire, who can only be killed by thrusting his own sword through his heart. Lots of fighting and fencing begin. The baron can be defeated in a duel to the death. |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | True Tales of the Supernatural #11 (1 page) |
| Synopsis | "Not too long ago in Scotland there lived two feuding familys (sic!) - the McPhersons and the Cambells..."
McPherson kills Cambell by rolling a boulder from a ridge. Years later Cambell is killed in the same spot - from a rolling boulder turned loose by a ghost. |
| Featuring | True Tales of the Supernatural |
| Credits | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | Gargoyle's Revenge (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Stone mason Joost creates fearful gargoyles for the decoration of the guild hall in the capitol of Bosnia. Evil spirits inhabit those gargoyles, they kill when being attacked. Joost is ordered to destroy them and dies in the process when the guild hall collapses. |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | True Tales of the Supernatural #12 (1 page) |
| Synopsis | "In each man's mind there lies a fear of the supernatural..."
A businessman is blackmailed, kills his opponent and puts the blame on an innocent man. He cannot enjoy his scheme and goes insane. |
| Featuring | True Tales of the Supernatural |
| Credits | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | The Mad Beast of Monaco (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Count Almo loses everything at the casino of Monaco. Clutching at straws, he learns about an evil "secret of the numbers". He wins again, but turns into a werewolf-like beast every other hour. When he tries to kill his former fiancee, he is hunted down and dies at the roulette wheel. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
| Notes | We (Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. and myself) believe that Cameron started his work for Ace in a team with Mastroserio. He goes solo later on. |
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| Text Story | Brew of Death (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | A madman plans to torture a young couple to death with sulphuric acid, but is overwhelmed at the last moment. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | Tribe of the Terrible Trees (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Somewhere in the jungle lives a tribe of tree-people. Men turned into living wood by some mysterious "voodoo goo". A hunter and a girl go looking for the girl's father who became one of the tree men. They get kidnapped by the terrible trees, but are saved by the father who sets himself aflame and burns his fellow trees. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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