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Issue: Baffling Mysteries #8 Public Domain
Publication Date: May 1952
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Issues: #8 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
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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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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Frank Giusto
Inker(s): Frank Giusto
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Some refer to this artist as “Ace” Baker, a Matt-Baker-imitator, who worked for Ace Magazines.
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The Bride's Borrowed Time

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Lou Cameron
Inker(s): Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Husband becomes curious about the lifelike male dolls kept by his beautiful young wife -- and why one of them talked to him. Lucretia is a witch dabbling with the secrets of the "Australian bush country head-hunters".
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Pages: 7
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Baffling Mysteries #7

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): Baffling Mysteries
Synopsis: "One spring day in 1912, Richard Wentworth an American business man, checked in at a well known hotel in London ..." The ghost of a burning man warns Wentworth that the hotel is on fire. The building can be safely evacuated with no one getting harmed.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: One of a series of 1-page stories about supposedly true encounters with the supernatural.
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Jungle Idol's Vengeful Rage

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bill Molno ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Professional hunters in northern India stalk a black panther guided by Ra-La, goddess of destruction. Stealing Ra-La's ruby eyes, the hunters flee to London, but Ra-La catches on with them and takes bloody revenge.
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Pages: 7
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Baffling Mysteries #8

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): Baffling Mysteries
Synopsis: "History tells us of the murderous career of Lucrezia Borgia who was one of the most feared women of Italy..." Actors rehearsing a play at the Borgia palace in 1933 are attacked by the ghost of Lucrezia.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: One of a series of 1-page stories about supposedly true encounters with the supernatural.
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At the Sound of Airi's Drum

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Lou Cameron
Inker(s): Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Small-time punk kills a shopkeeper in Calcutta, then conjures up a mystical being using the drum that he stole from his victim. The drum's "djinn", Airi, grants him three wishes. The man's last wish is to be hidden from the police. Airi takes him down with him to his "fiery underworld domain".
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Artwork appears to be by Lou Cameron but is unsigned.
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The Glacier's Secret

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A pilot goes down on a glacier. He finds a cave and frozen viking warriors therein. By making a fire they come alive. The pilot is imprisoned but can escape.
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Story corresponds loosely to the cover of Baffling Mysteries #24 (viking warrior frozen in ice).
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Yama's Fiery Fury

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Chic Stone
Inker(s): Chic Stone
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Explorers in Sumatra encounter a race of belligerent lava-men. They can be rendered harmless by contact with water, of course.
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Pages: 7

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