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Issue: Baffling Mysteries #10 Public Domain
Publication Date: September 1952
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Issues: #10 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): Fred Gardener (uncredited)
Disclose Notes: Available as a scan at digitalcomicmuseum.com.
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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): John Chilly ?
Inker(s): John Chilly ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
First Line: Stop struggling, fools!
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Pages: 1
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Diogenes' Deadly Lamp

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Robert Turner
Penciller(s): Jim McLaughlin
Inker(s): Mario Rizzi ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Lex Markow
Synopsis: "Loathsome young parasite" Lex Markow steals Diogenes' lamp from an antique dealer, but the relic turns out to be cursed. When he tries to get rid of the lamp Markow hangs himself - like it was predicted.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Robert Turner lists this as one of the stories he wrote from late 1950 - 1952, in his book "Some of My Best Friends Are Writers..." (1970).
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Baffling Mysteries #11

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
Character(s): Richard Lowell
Synopsis: "Richard Lowell had heard the legend of the old witch that haunted the abandoned mansion on the hill..." On halloween night, Lowell takes a photo of the witch. No one believes him.
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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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Nightmare Flight

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Lou Cameron
Inker(s): Lou Cameron ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A young woman's fiancé returns, horribly scarred, months after he disappeared in a presumably fatal plane crash. He leads the woman into a death swamp, where she has to destroy an evil swamp queen to lay his tortured soul to rest.
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Pages: 7
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Baffling Mysteries #12

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: "The strange incident which is narrated below occurred in 1927, in the natural history museum of a large mid-western city..." The curator gets killed by a "tribal death mask" falling from the wall. The mask had complained about being relocated from its home country earlier on.
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Disclose Notes: One of a series of 1-page stories about supposedly true encounters with the supernatural.
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Monster of the Moat

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Paul Gattuso
Inker(s): Richard Case
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A bypasser rescues a witch imprisoned by an evil sorcerer and marries her, but things turn out badly. Because the monster of the moat wants its revenge!
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Pages: 7
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Bells of Doom

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: George Sanderval dreams that he murders a couple in a cathedral. Waking up he has stabbed his wife to death in his sleep. Was he executing an age-old curse which had befallen his family line?
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Land of the Silicon Men

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Louis Zansky
Inker(s): Louis Zansky
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A mysterious potion brought back from Africa turns men into glass ("silicon men"). When exploring the glass city, a party of reporters are captured. They turn on a siren. The silicon men break and shatter from the noise.
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Pages: 7

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