Digital Comic Museum - Baffling Mysteries 018


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Baffling Mysteries 018 (1953 Ace)

Issue: #18
Published: November 1953, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 36, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Credits:	Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Genre:	Horror-suspense

Comic Story (7 pages)	6 of Me on the Prowl
Synopsis:	An evil sculptress and a mad doctor create six clones of ex-G.I. Barney Phelps. As the clones commit crimes, the real Phelps is desperate to stop them.
Credits:	Pencils: Ken Rice \| Inks: Ken Rice \| Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Genre:	Horror-suspense

Comic Story (1 page)	Baffling Mysteries # 29
Featuring:	Baffling Mysteries
Synopsis:	"In a dingy warehouse of an opera house in Europe, hangs a life-size, almost human puppet, untouched for years..." When a mysterious, devil-like stranger plays his violin, a puppeteer turns into his own puppet.
Credits:	Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Genre:	Horror-suspense

Comic Story (7 pages)	12 Hours to Doom
Synopsis:	Businessman Arthur Matlin discovers a magic sundial which summons Chronos, the spirit of time. With the help of Chronos, Matlin can travel some hours ahead into the future. He uses this ability to commit crimes. When the police catch up with him and destroy the sundial, Matlin is condemned to wander the future without ever returning.
Credits:	Pencils: Lou Cameron (signed) \| Inks: Lou Cameron (signed) \| Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Genre:	Horror-suspense

Comic Story (1 page)	Baffling Mysteries # 30
Featuring:	Baffling Mysteries
Synopsis:	"Years ago, when wild Nomad tribes roamed the Sahara desert, a leader appeared and tried to organize these people..." This man, El Kabir, is killed by an envious rival chief. But El Kabir's ghost still wanders the desert, helping people in trouble.
Credits:	Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Genre:	Horror-suspense

Comic Story (7 pages)	The Ghost in the Portrait
Synopsis:	A young couple free the ghost of an evil ancestor. He takes revenge on the bones of the people who sentenced him to death. Then he commands the man to murder his wife, as he did with his wife. The woman manages to destroy the evil spirit in the last moment. The couple lives happily ever after.
Credits:	Pencils: Ken Rice \| Inks: Ken Rice
Genre:	Horror-suspense

Text Story (2 pages)	The Medium's Warning
Synopsis:	A murdered woman's ghost rises from the grave to get her killer husband to join her in death.
Credits:	Letters: typeset
Genre:	Horror-suspense

Comic Story (7 pages)	Crimson Wraith from the North
Synopsis:	From an uranium valley in the Arctic rises a fog monster, taking on the form of Professor Charters. The fog travels to the US, but has to sustain its form by draining bodies off their blood. The vampire fog is overcome when set on fire.
Credits:	Pencils: Sy Grudko \| Inks: Sy Grudko \| Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Genre:	Horror-suspense

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