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Issue: Baffling Mysteries #14 Public Domain
Publication Date: March 1953
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Issues: #14 of 22 Issues
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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): typeset (Leroy lettering)
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Some refer to this artist as "Ace" Baker, a Matt-Baker-Imitator, who worked for ACE.
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The Dead Are Never Lonely

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jim McLaughlin
Inker(s): Mike Esposito ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Synopsis: Actress Nolita is killed in an argument with her husband. She flees the crypt, hoping to escape death. As her body withers away in the world of the living, she returns to death and finds peace with her late husband.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Possible Esposito inks per Nick Caputo, September 2018.
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Baffling Mysteries #22

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Feature(s): Baffling Mysteries
Synopsis: "There is a man today, in Spain, who has in his possession two macabre paintings..." People die gazing upon paintings of horror.
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Pages: 1
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Prowl of the Stalking Terror

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): George Klein ?
Inker(s): George Klein
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A surgeon believes in vampires. To prove his theory he drags his uncle from the crypt who was a vampire! The bloodthirsty vampire rampages through the hospital and infects his nephew. After more killings, the surgeon overcomes his vampirism by means of a blood transfusion and both uncle and nephew fall struggling with each other out of a window to their death.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Possible Klein pencils and Klein inks per Nick Caputo, September 2018.
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Baffling Mysteries #21

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bill Molno ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Feature(s): Baffling Mysteries
Synopsis: "On the desolate coast of Nova Scotia, there stands a lighthouse..." All lighthouse keepers vanish. Two tourists staying the night find out that all of them cruise the sea at night - in a rowboat.
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Beware the Graveyard Clay

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Charles Nicholas
Inker(s): Charles Nicholas ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Synopsis: The sculptor Clatrow forms voodoo dolls out of graveyard clay. Ridding himself with this mystic power of his mentor, Clatrow plans to marry the daughter of the house. Visions of the murdered man haunt Clatrow, he breaks his own voodoo image by accident and dies.
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Pages: 7
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The Curse of Bell's Rectory

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A treasure hunter digs up gold and silver in the well of an old rectory. The deacon's ghost (to whom the treasure belongs) appears and kills the thief.
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Slaves of the Orchid Goddess

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Howard Larsen
Inker(s): Howard Larsen
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: In the jungle of Bengali, two adventurers encounter the orchid goddess and her man-eating orchids. They escape to the new world, bringing along a small plant. As it grows, it turns their florist business into a little shop of horrors.
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