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Issue: Baffling Mysteries #7 Public Domain
Publication Date: March 1952
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Issues: #7 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): ?
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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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Terror Beneath the Tides

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Frank Giusto
Inker(s): Frank Giusto
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Many refer to this artist as “Ace” Baker, a Matt-Baker-imitator, who worked for Ace Magazines.
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A Game with Lucifer

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Lou Cameron
Inker(s): Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Ben Oda ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Barry Archer; The Devil
Synopsis: Grandmaster Barry Archer plays chess with the Devil.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Inks are probably by Rocco Mastroserio. He and Cameron worked as a team in this phase of Ace horror comic books.
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Baffling Mysteries #5

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Ben Oda ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): Baffling Mysteries
Synopsis: "Arthur Regan, well known American artist, had a strange experience in the summer of 1927..." Visiting friends, Regan meets the ghost of a girl who drowned herself in the fountain pool.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: One of a series of 1-page stories about supposedly true encounters with the supernatural.
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Scourge of the Kentucky Hills

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jim McLaughlin
Inker(s): Mario Rizzi ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Werewolf
Synopsis: A dying doctor becomes a werewolf after his assistant gives him the transplanted heart of a wolf.
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Pages: 7
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Baffling Mysteries #6

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): Baffling Mysteries
Synopsis: "There has been a great deal of discussion concerning mediums who hold seances..." A woman's murder is solved by contacting the victim through a medium.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: One of a series of 1-page stories about supposedly true encounters with the supernatural.
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Back from an Unhallowed Grave

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Mike Sekowsky ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Count Ricco
Synopsis: Count Ricco unwittingly unearths the body of a vampire (his niece).
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Artwork appears to be by Mike Sekowsky but is unsigned.
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The Mummy's Curse

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Egyptian Whodunit: Archeologist sets deadly trap for his employer by springing a mummy's poisoned ornament on him. Egyptian detective can put the blame on him.
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From Content Item: FlagThe Beyond #1 published November 1950
was The Mummy's Curse [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Terror Beneath the Tides

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Mike Sekowsky ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): "Old Ned" Davis (dies); Casey Darrell; Morton Chernicky (dies); Stella
First Line: I notice you alway frown at the sight of Old Ned Davis, Mr. Chernicky!
Synopsis: Newspaper publisher refuses to print his reporter's story about a murderous monster from the sea.
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Pages: 7

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