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Baffling Mysteries Comic Books Issue No. 6 1952

Baffling Mysteries Comic Books Issue No. 6 1952

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Publication January 1952 | Pages: 36 | Frequency: bi-monthly

Credits Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Content Genre: Horror

Comic Story Macabre Ritual in Witches' Glen (7 pages)
Synopsis Witchcraft is at work in New England. A young couple witness "the exchange": a witch transforms her soul into the body of a freshly killed girl. The couple escape, but are stalked by the witch in her new body. Struggling with the man, she falls to her death.

Credits Pencils: Mike Sekowsky
Content Genre: Horror

Filler Baffling Mysteries #3 (1 page)
Synopsis "In the early days of the American west, towns seemed to spring up almost overnight..." When they are deserted later on, they become "ghost towns". A tourist visits such a ghost town, encountering actual ghosts.

Featuring Baffling Mysteries
Content Genre: Horror-suspense

Comic Story Fatal Rendezvous (7 pages)
Synopsis Warner Davis dies on the operating table, goes to heaven, but is sent back, because his time has not yet come. Davis awakes with the gift of clairvoyance and starts warning people about their deaths. No one believes him. Tortured by his knowledge, he is finally happy to die.

Credits Pencils: Jim McLaughlin | Inks: Mario Rizzi?
Content Genre: Horror

Filler Baffling Mysteries #4 (1 page)
Synopsis "In 1897, Pierre Paitel, a painter, fell in love with Emilie, beautiful daughter of the count of Monceau..." The count forbids their relationship. The painter goes to Paris, the girl dies of broken heart, believing her lover forgot about her.

Featuring Baffling Mysteries
Content Genre: Horror-suspense

Comic Story Horror on Canvas (7 pages)
Synopsis Art painter Blake Roberts dies in a car crash, but awakens in the morgue as a deformed living dead man. He paints himself an evil picture, which guides his rotten soul. Roberts goes on a mission to destroy beauty and kill people. While struggling with his ex-fiancées new lover, the monster gets stabbed and melts away - into a heap of bones.

Credits Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Content Genre: Horror

Text Story Peril of the Half-Dead (2 pages)

Credits Letters: typeset
Content Genre: Horror

Comic Story Black Magic in a Slinky Gown (7 pages)
Synopsis Leonore Black is a beautiful woman, but also able to transform herself into a giant black widow spider. In this form she kills men who do harm to spiders: collectors and zoologists. The human black widow meets her fate when stung to death by a swarm of wasps.

Credits Pencils: Mike Sekowsky? | Inks: Bill Walton?
Content Genre: Horror
Notes Tentative credits from Haunted Horror (IDW Publishing, 2012 series) #1.

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