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Issue: Baffling Mysteries #25 Public Domain
Publication Date: July 1955
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Issues: #25 of 22 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagAce Magazines
Brand: AceView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Periodical House Inc.
On Sale Date: 1955
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 8 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): M. J. Phillips
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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
Format Notes:  
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Riddle of Pete Dunn's Last Fight

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult
Synopsis: Boxer Pete Dunn is ready to win the lightweight championship. As his father dies, he promises him to win the fight and become champion. Dunn gets killed in a car accident, but manages to show up for his fight. He wins the championship, but vanishes in his dressing room. News arrive that Dunn has been killed. Everyone is quite baffled.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagThe Beyond #6 published September 1951
was Riddle of Pete Dunn's Last Fight [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Mark of the Cat

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, occult
Synopsis: Ross Bridger visits a balkan land and a spooky castle. There he meets Chorta, a she-devil who can transform into a cat. Chorta wants Ross to be her prince of evil. Ross escapes but is followed to the United States. In a showdown on a stormy night he can lock out the cat.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagWeb of Mystery #7 published February 1952
was Mark of the Sinister Cat [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Original title: "Mark of the Sinister Cat."

Story has been retouched to meet approval of the Comics Code Authority. In original story the cat is killed, for example.
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Flee the Other Self

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Synopsis: Paul Hulick is a gambler who cheats on his girl. He meets his doppelganger (who reveals himself as Hulick's conscience) and learns that he must die tomorrow (by drowning) unless he changes his behaviour. He does so but refuses to hand his conscience back its book of fate, so that he can change the death-entry. On the run he falls into an open manhole, but is luckily saved soon afterwards.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagThe Hand of Fate #9 published February 1952
was It Is Written: I Die Tomorrow! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Original title: "It Is Written: I Die Tomorrow!"

Story is heavily retouched to meet approval of the Comics Code Authority. The figure of Fate is removed and replaced by Paul Hulick's doppelganger (drawn by Louis Zansky). New hand-lettered text lines are strewn into the Leroy lettered original balloons. Originally Hulick falls into the manhole and drowns in the sewer.
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Baffling Mysteries #4

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult
Feature(s): Baffling Mysteries
Synopsis: "In the late 19th century, a certain captain Morgan and a friend arrived in London and sought lodgings for two nights..." In the night, Morgan is harassed by a ghost bird. Not dumb, he lets his friend take the room for the next night. In the morning, the friend tells of the same experience.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagThe Beyond #6 published September 1951
was True Tales of the Supernatural #12 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: The numbering (#4) is erratic and arbitrarily. It is in fact a reprint of "True Tales of the Supernatural #12".
Only Ace horror comic book to contain one instead of two "fillers".
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Secrets Behind the Bloodstains

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, informational, non-fiction
Synopsis: No fictional story, but a detective's guide to interpret bloodstains from crime scenes.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2.66
Disclose Notes: Last third of third page is Statement of the Ownership.
Publisher: A.A.Wyn, Editor: M.J. Phillips
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Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.33
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Night of Strangeness

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult
Synopsis: Nurse Jarvis encounters a mine foreman in the Pennsylvania hills, who leads her to a group of men, caught in a cave-in. They give her instructions about a hidden, rich vein. Reporting this event in town, she if baffled to hear that the cave-in took place ten years ago, all the men were lost and the mine expired. The nurse and the mine owner's son investigate and discover an entrance to the cave-in. They marry and strike it richly.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagBaffling Mysteries #5 published November 1951
was Terror in the Coal Pits [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Original title: "Terror in the Coal Pits." The terms “bizarre” and “insane” are eliminated in the last panel moral.

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