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Issue: Baffling Mysteries #5 Public Domain
Publication Date: November 1951
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Issues: #5 of 22 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagAce Magazines
Brand: AceView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Periodical House, Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 8 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: First issue of Baffling Mysteries.
Formerly Indian Braves.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S.
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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Volcano of Vengeance

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
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Pages: 1
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Volcano of Vengeance

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Mike Sekowsky
Inker(s): Vince Alascia ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Synopsis: Tod Sloane, field man for the North American Museum, investigates Mount Pataxo, located in a small Central American country. In this volcano, an age-old but benign cult of godlike "goatmen" has survived. The superstitious locals want to sacrifice Sloane to prevent volcanic eruption. He is saved by the goatmen and their queen Arni. Sloane manages to disperse the locals superstition and wins a valuable artifact.
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Pages: 7
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Phantom Snow Queen

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Maurice Gutwirth; George Appel
Inker(s): Maurice Gutwirth; George Appel
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Synopsis: Ski-jump sensation Irma Monroe has a vision of death the night before her fabulous nightly ski-jump at the New Hampshire Snowtop Lodge. She races to New York to see a psychiatrist about this. Meanwhile a skeletal phantom does all the work for her. Her boyfriend is worried. Going to New York he finds her comatose in a hospital, where she was brought after falling down an elevator shaft. Hearing the voice of her lover, Irma recovers. Mystery!
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In Content Item: FlagBaffling Mysteries #24 published January 1955
as The Phantom Snow Queen [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 7
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The Lady Was a Tiger

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ken Rice
Inker(s): Ken Rice
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Bonita Jackson, wife to big-game-hunter Stuart, falls ill in the jungles of Western India and is brought to mysterious Dr. Zander, the only help available. Zander is mad and injects tiger blood into the veins of the unsuspecting woman. The lady turns into a tiger and runs off into the jungle. The worried husband follows her, gets in danger and is rescued by his tigeress. Husband confronts doctor, doctor draws gun, tiger leaps in and kills doctor.
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Baffling Mysteries [#1]

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Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Feature(s): Baffling Mysteries
Synopsis: "The Danube river flows through small towns in lower Germany." Two pranksters scare a ferryman on Halloween. They disguise as death ("We are Death!") ?!? They ferry off into Nowhere.
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Underwater Mystery

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Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Synopsis: The travel liner "Arcadia" goes down off the coast of New York. A husband and his wife struggle against drowning and experience wild fantasies. A creature named Zrynyi strangles them. They are rescued, Zrynyi lying dead beside them. Wild visions - or were they?!
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Baffling Mysteries [#2]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Feature(s): Baffling Mysteries
Synopsis: "The buried treasure of Captain Kidd..." Man strolling on beach finds pirate treasure. Captain Kidd appears, man stabs him and runs to the police. On the crime scene, the Captain has changed into the body of an innocent beachchomber.
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Terror in the Coal Pits

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Gene Colan
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Synopsis: Nurse Jarvis encounters a mine foreman in the Pennsylvania hills, who leads her to a group of men, caught in a cave-in. They give her instructions about a hidden, rich vein. Reporting this event in town, she if baffled to hear that the cave-in took place ten years ago, all the men were lost and the mine expired. The nurse and the mine owner's son investigate and discover an entrance to the cave-in. They marry and strike it richly.
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In Content Item: FlagBaffling Mysteries #25 published July 1955
as Night of Strangeness [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 7

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