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Baffling Mysteries Horror Comic Books Issue No. 14 1953

Baffling Mysteries Horror Comic Books Issue No. 14 1953

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Publication March 1953 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 36 | Frequency: bi-monthly
Notes Some information for this index from Saltarella via the GCD Error Tracker, August 2010.

Credits Pencils:? [as "ACE" Baker] (see notes) | Inks:? [as "ACE" Baker] (see notes) | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Notes Jim Vadeboncoeur refers to this artist as "Ace" Baker, a Matt-Baker-Imitator, who worked for ACE.

Comic Story The Dead Are Never Lonely (7 pages)
Synopsis Actress Nolita is killed in an argument with her husband. She flees the crypt, hoping to escape death. As her body withers away in the world of the living, she returns to death and finds peace with her late husband.
Credits Pencils: Jim McLaughlin | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Content Genre: Occult

Comic Story Baffling Mysteries #22 (1 page)
Synopsis "There is a man today, in Spain, who has in his possession two macabre paintings..." People die gazing upon paintings of horror.
Featuring Baffling Mysteries
Credits Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Content Genre: Occult

Comic Story Prowl of the Stalking Terror (7 pages)
Synopsis A surgeon believes in vampires. To prove his theory he drags his uncle from the crypt who was a vampire! The bloodthirsty vampire rampages through the hospital and infects his nephew. After more killings, the surgeon overcomes his vampirism by means of a blood transfusion and both uncle and nephew fall struggling with each other out of a window to their death.
Credits Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Content Genre: Horror

Comic Story Baffling Mysteries #21 (1 page)
Synopsis "On the desolate coast of Nova Scotia, there stands a lighthouse..." All lighthouse keepers vanish. Two tourists staying the night find out that all of them cruise the sea at night - in a rowboat.
Featuring Baffling Mysteries
Credits Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Content Genre: Occult

Comic Story Beware the Graveyard Clay (7 pages)
Synopsis The sculptor Clatrow forms voodoo dolls out of graveyard clay. Ridding himself with this mystic power of his mentor, Clatrow plans to marry the daughter of the house. Visions of the murdered man haunt Clatrow, he breaks his own voodoo image by accident and dies.
Credits Pencils: Charles Nicholas | Inks: Charles Nicholas? | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Content Genre: Occult

Text Story The Curse of Bell's Rectory (2 pages)
Synopsis A treasure hunter digs up gold and silver in the well of an old rectory. The deacon's ghost (to whom the treasure belongs) appears and kills the thief.
Credits Letters: typeset
Content Genre: Horror

Comic Story Slaves of the Orchid Goddess (7 pages)
Synopsis In the jungle of Bengali, two adventurers encounter the orchid goddess and her man-eating orchids. They escape to the new world, bringing along a small plant. As it grows, it turns their florist business into a little shop of horrors.
Credits Pencils: Howard Larsen | Inks: Howard Larsen | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Content Genre: Horror

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