XOW Logo
  • Location
    • Home
    • Issue Detail, List Content Items
in for
   
by
Twitter Logo Facebook Logo
Report a Bug Ask for Support Review Site Apply to be an Editor
Issue: Baffling Mysteries #24 Public Domain
Publication Date: January 1955
Previous Base Issue Previous Issue Variant Next Issue Variant Next Base Issue
 
Disclose Detail
Issues: #24 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): ?
Disclose Notes:  
  Does this data need corrections? Become an editor.
Disclose Format
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
Format Notes:  
Disclose Reprinted In0
There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted anywhere.
Disclose Reprinted From3
Disclose Images1
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
Assets1
Indicia
 
 
spacer
Disclose Content Items (8 total)
Disclose Issue Images
[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Ken Rice ?
Inker(s): Ken Rice ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose
The Sacred Fingers of Princess Thais

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: Jeweler Norton Cross is brought to Java by the beautiful sorceress Thais. She sends him on a mission to reclaim three jade pieces. Norton kills for her and hopes to marry her. When the collection is complete, Norton learns that these were the fingers of Thais. She is a jade demon and will sacrifice him now.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose
Baffling Mysteries #41

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: occult
Feature(s): Baffling Mysteries
Synopsis: "Robert Fielding, a young American art student, spent a summer's vacation in England painting and exploring medieval castles..." Fielding discovers the magic reflection of a girl's face in the water of a castle's hidden well. She resembles the last female descendent of the Laraday line.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: One of a series of 1-page stories about supposedly true encounters with the supernatural.
Disclose
Scourge of the Scorpion Cult

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Frank Giusto
Inker(s): Frank Giusto
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Searching for a cure for scorpion's venom, Dr. Marston and "his lovely daughter Celia" run into a cult of scorpion people. Their leader wants to take Celia as his queen. Celia gets bitten, but can be cured by her loving father.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagThe Beyond #6 published September 1951
was Scourge of the Scorpion Cult [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Artist "Ace" Baker, a Matt-Baker-Imitator, worked for ACE.
Disclose
Baffling Mysteries #42

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: "Kurt Halle was a mountain climber who dared the impossible. He scaled the treacherous Matterhorn alone..." Running into trouble on his way down, Halle is rescued by the ghost of a man who died on the mountain.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: One of a series of 1-page stories about supposedly true encounters with the supernatural.
Disclose
The Phantom Snow Queen

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Maurice Gutwirth; George Appel
Inker(s): Maurice Gutwirth; George Appel
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Ski-jump sensation Irma Monroe has a vision of death the night before her fabulous nightly ski-jump at the New Hampshire Snowtop Lodge. She races to New York to see a psychiatrist about this. Meanwhile a skeletal phantom does all the work for her. Her boyfriend is worried. Going to New York he finds her comatose in a hospital, where she was brought after falling down an elevator shaft. Hearing the voice of her lover, Irma recovers. Mystery!
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagBaffling Mysteries #5 published November 1951
was Phantom Snow Queen [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose
Unearthly Rendezvous

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A widowed sculptor is flying his dead woman's statue to an exhibition when the plane hits rough weather. He land, meets his ghost wife, spends some hours with her and then flies off again.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose
The Menace That Stalked Brooding Cunliffe

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: Beautiful Cambria is torn between two men. Unfortunately one of them is a werewolf stalking the english countryside of Cunliffe. In the end the werewolf lover gets stabbed to death.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagWeb of Mystery #5 published October 1951
was The Menace That Stalked Brooding Cunliffe [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7

Site designed and hosted by XOWTech, Inc..
Any questions or problems with this site should be directed to REMOVE-webmaestro-THESE@xowcomics.com.

XOW, XOWComics.com, XOWTech and XOWTech.com are registered trademarks of XOWTech, Inc.
© XOWTech, Inc., 2010 - 2024. All rights reserved.

Some data courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution license.