Baffling Mysteries Horror Comic Books Issue No. 13 1953

Publication January 1953 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 36 | Frequency: Monthly

Credits Pencils: Jim McLaughlin | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Content Genre: Horror

Comic Story Dr. Gueux's Nightmare Monsters (7 pages)
Synopsis Dr. Gueux wants to rule the world. With the help of monsters dreamt up by a mystery writer in his nightmares. The evil doctor can make these monsters manifest and unleashes them upon the city. The writer creates monsters even more powerful and battles the doctor to his defeat.
Credits Pencils: Louis Zansky | Inks: Mario Rizzi? | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Content Genre: Horror

Comic Story Baffling Mysteries #17 (1 page)
Synopsis "The validity of spiritualism has been a long debated subject through the years..." A man kills a gypsy fortune teller and is apprehended by the police. They found him because the gypsy's crystal ball shows a vision of the man being hanged for his crime.
Featuring Baffling Mysteries
Credits Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Content Genre: Horror
Notes One of a series of 1-page stories about supposedly true encounters with the supernatural.

Comic Story Greed's Grisly Treasure (7 pages)
Synopsis Adventurer runs an errand for the devil. He fights ghosts in a spooky tavern to get his hands on a pirate treasure. The devil tricks the man, he loses life and soul.
Credits Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Content Genre: Horror

Comic Story Baffling Mysteries #18 (1 page)
Synopsis "High in the mountains of Southern Italy, one may see the ruins of an ancient castle..." A nephew murders his uncle to inherit the family castle. The uncle's ghost burns it to the ground.
Featuring Baffling Mysteries
Credits Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Content Genre: Horror
Notes One of a series of 1-page stories about supposedly true encounters with the supernatural.

Comic Story Role of the Footlight Werewolf (7 pages)
Synopsis Ambitious actor goes method acting to portray a werewolf onstage. He joins a band of werewolves, supplies them with victims and learns their behavior and rites. He gets to be a success, but turns into a werewolf himself and is shot dead.
Credits Pencils: Charles Nicholas | Inks: Paul Gattuso | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Content Genre: Horror

Text Story The Mark of the Leopard (2 pages)
Synopsis A were-leopard terrorizes a small village. It is Sonja, the doctor's wife. He puts a bullet through her forehead, although he loves her very much. But the leopard woman has been killing children and "scarring the breasts of beautiful young girls".
Credits Letters: typeset
Content Genre: Horror

Comic Story Black Horror of Druid's Glen (7 pages)
Synopsis American tourists in Wales discover a druid ritual place. The druids come alive and sacrifice the intruders. One of the tourist group takes on the identity of the "Black Druid". He returns to the US to lure more tourists to Wales.
Credits Pencils: Charles Nicholas | Inks: Chris Rule? | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Content Genre: Horror

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