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Issue: Baffling Mysteries #20 Public Domain
Publication Date: April 1954
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Issues: #20 of 22 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagAce Magazines
Brand: AceView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Periodical House, Inc.
On Sale Date: 12/16/1953
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: On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1954 Periodicals, page 18.
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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
Penciller(s): Jim McLaughlin ?
Inker(s): Jim McLaughlin ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
First Line: Decide! Return the jewel of the pygmy god - or you too shall be made my pygmy slave!
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Pages: 1
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The Maze Master

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Lou Cameron (signed)
Inker(s): Lou Cameron (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Victor Rarlo is a sadist who loves puzzles and lets people perish in his fiendish mazes. Being challenged by a strange mystic, Rarlo travels into psychedelic mind-mazes and gets irreversibly caught in the maze of his own mind.
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In Content Item: FlagFour Color Fear: Forgotten Horror Comics of the 1950s #[nn] [unnamed variant] published September 2010
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Pages: 6.67
Disclose Notes: Bottom of last page has statement of ownership signed by publisher A. A. Wyn.
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Baffling Mysteries # 33

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Sy Grudko
Inker(s): Sy Grudko
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): Baffling Mysteries
Synopsis: "When civilization began its march into the mechanical age late in the 19th century, the Paris exposition became the center of world attention..." A horror amusement ride is built, creating the world of Hades. Testing it, the park directors go mad.
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Tune of the Zombie Queen

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: Washed-up dancers Ferdie and Doris take over a stage act from a genuine voodoo queen in New Orleans. They have to pay a price though – and turn into zombies.
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Pages: 7
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Baffling Mysteries # 34

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Sy Grudko
Inker(s): Sy Grudko
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): Baffling Mysteries
Synopsis: "One of the most macabre tales to come from the moors of Scotland, took place fifty-six years ago..." A London police inspector doesn't believe the reports of a werewolf on the rampage on the moors and gets to be the monster's next victim.
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Hostage of the Unearthly

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ken Rice
Inker(s): Ken Rice
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Demons from the "half-world" invade our "earth-plane" through a pathway opened by radiation experiments. They get trapped by their inability to cross water.
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Pages: 7
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Crimson Fury

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, occult
Synopsis: A man is killed with a razor outside a barber shop. A mob lynches the hermit on the hill. Soon after, the mob leader dies under mysterious circumstances.
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Pages: 2
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When Voodoo Drums Rumble

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jim McLaughlin
Inker(s): Jim McLaughlin
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Brutal plantation owner Stefan Hootner abuses and kills his servants, thus exciting the wrath of voodoo queen Veldamma. She comes to him as beautiful Velda and tricks him into marriage.
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