More ACE Comic Greatness From
Issue #22 Of Baffling Mysteries
From 1954. Art By Ken Rice,
Jay Scott Pike, Lou Cameron
And Mike Sekowsky.
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The Amulet of Terror seems to be a reworking of the tale "A Gentlemen of Prague" by Stephen Grendon. In the tale "A Gentlemen of Prague" a Mr. Dekrugh steals an amulet from the tomb of Septimus Halos, a sorcerer from the 1600's. The inscription on the amulet reads 'What is mine belongs to me' and the original owner reclaims his property. The sorcerer takes a cab ride to the address of Mr. Dekrugh and pays the cabby a gold coin from the 12th century Bohemia.
ReplyDeleteThe story "A Gentlemen of Prague" was originally printed in Weird Tales 1944 reprinted in Sleep No More 1944 by August Derleth, a book I purchased by chance in a thrift store.
I wonder how many other comic tales were reworkings of horror fantasy stories.
It turns out Stephen Grendon was a pen name of August Derleth, maybe that is why it ended uo in Derleth's book Sleep No More.
DeleteEC comics did a few "unauthorized" reworks of Ray Bradbury tales before Ray found out. They worked things out later though,
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