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Baffling Mysteries Horror Comic Books Issue No. 24 1955
Baffling Mysteries Horror Comic Books Issue No. 24 1955
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Publication January 1955 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 36 | Frequency: quarterly
Credits Pencils: Ken Rice? | Inks: Ken Rice? | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Content Genre: Horror
Comic Story The Sacred Fingers of Princess Thais (7 pages)
Synopsis Jeweler Norton Cross is brought to Java by the beautiful sorceress Thais. She sends him on a mission to reclaim three jade pieces. Norton kills for her and hopes to marry her. When the collection is complete, Norton learns that these were the fingers of Thais. She is a jade demon and will sacrifice him now.
Credits Pencils: Jim McLaughlin | Inks: Jim McLaughlin | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Content Genre: Horror
Notes Saltarella submitted via the GCD Error List that this work was done by Lou Cameron. Cameron signed every one of his jobs since May 1953, and this work is not signed. Work is by Jim McLaughlin.
Comic Story Baffling Mysteries #41 (1 page)
Synopsis "Robert Fielding, a young American art student, spent a summer's vacation in England painting and exploring medieval castles..." Fielding discovers the magic reflection of a girl's face in the water of a castle's hidden well. She resembles the last female descendent of the Laraday line.
Featuring Baffling Mysteries
Credits Pencils: Sy Grudko | Inks: Sy Grudko | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Content Genre: Occult
Notes One of a series of 1-page stories about supposedly true encounters with the supernatural.
Comic Story Scourge of the Scorpion Cult (7 pages)
Synopsis Searching for a cure for scorpion's venom, Dr. Marston and "his lovely daughter Celia" run into a cult of scorpion people. Their leader wants to take Celia as his queen. Celia gets bitten, but can be cured by her loving father.
Credits Pencils:? [as "Ace" Baker] (see notes) | Inks:? [as "Ace" Baker] (see notes)
Content Genre: Horror
Notes Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. refers to this artist as "Ace" Baker, a Matt-Baker-Imitator, who worked for ACE.
Comic Story Baffling Mysteries #42 (1 page)
Synopsis "Kurt Halle was a mountain climber who dared the impossible. He scaled the treacherous Matterhorn alone..." Running into trouble on his way down, Halle is rescued by the ghost of a man who died on the mountain.
Featuring Baffling Mysteries
Credits Pencils: Sy Grudko | Inks: Sy Grudko | 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 The Phantom Snow Queen (7 pages)
Synopsis Ski-jump sensation Irma Monroe has a vision of death the night before her fabulous nightly ski-jump at the New Hampshire Snowtop Lodge. She races to New York to see a psychiatrist about this. Meanwhile a skeletal phantom does all the work for her. Her boyfriend is worried. Going to New York he finds her comatose in a hospital, where she was brought after falling down an elevator shaft. Hearing the voice of her lover, Irma recovers. Mystery!
Credits Pencils: Maurice Gutwirth; George Appel | Inks: Maurice Gutwirth; George Appel
Content Genre: Horror
Text Story Unearthly Rendezvous (2 pages)
Synopsis A widowed sculptor is flying his dead woman's statue to an exhibition when the plane hits rough weather. He land, meets his ghost wife, spends some hours with her and then flies off again.
Credits Letters: typeset
Content Genre: Occult
Comic Story The Menace That Stalked Brooding Cunliffe (7 pages)
Synopsis Beautiful Cambria is torn between two men. Unfortunately one of them is a werewolf stalking the english countryside of Cunliffe. In the end the werewolf lover gets stabbed to death.
Credits Pencils: Jim McLaughlin | Inks: Jim McLaughlin | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Content Genre: Horror
Notes Saltarella submitted via the GCD Error List that this work was done by Lou Cameron. Cameron signed every one of his jobs since May 1953, and this work is not signed. Work is by Jim McLaughlin.
If you have a black-and-white e-reader, or if you're not able to read or expand the pictures, you might have a better viewing experience on the Nook App for iPad, Android, or PC. If you use the Nook App for PC, you can capture screenshots for use in crafting or digital artwork.
The data here in the description content section is courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a CC Attribution License. More details about this comic book description can be found at Grand Comics.
Credits Pencils: Ken Rice? | Inks: Ken Rice? | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Content Genre: Horror
Comic Story The Sacred Fingers of Princess Thais (7 pages)
Synopsis Jeweler Norton Cross is brought to Java by the beautiful sorceress Thais. She sends him on a mission to reclaim three jade pieces. Norton kills for her and hopes to marry her. When the collection is complete, Norton learns that these were the fingers of Thais. She is a jade demon and will sacrifice him now.
Credits Pencils: Jim McLaughlin | Inks: Jim McLaughlin | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Content Genre: Horror
Notes Saltarella submitted via the GCD Error List that this work was done by Lou Cameron. Cameron signed every one of his jobs since May 1953, and this work is not signed. Work is by Jim McLaughlin.
Comic Story Baffling Mysteries #41 (1 page)
Synopsis "Robert Fielding, a young American art student, spent a summer's vacation in England painting and exploring medieval castles..." Fielding discovers the magic reflection of a girl's face in the water of a castle's hidden well. She resembles the last female descendent of the Laraday line.
Featuring Baffling Mysteries
Credits Pencils: Sy Grudko | Inks: Sy Grudko | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Content Genre: Occult
Notes One of a series of 1-page stories about supposedly true encounters with the supernatural.
Comic Story Scourge of the Scorpion Cult (7 pages)
Synopsis Searching for a cure for scorpion's venom, Dr. Marston and "his lovely daughter Celia" run into a cult of scorpion people. Their leader wants to take Celia as his queen. Celia gets bitten, but can be cured by her loving father.
Credits Pencils:? [as "Ace" Baker] (see notes) | Inks:? [as "Ace" Baker] (see notes)
Content Genre: Horror
Notes Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. refers to this artist as "Ace" Baker, a Matt-Baker-Imitator, who worked for ACE.
Comic Story Baffling Mysteries #42 (1 page)
Synopsis "Kurt Halle was a mountain climber who dared the impossible. He scaled the treacherous Matterhorn alone..." Running into trouble on his way down, Halle is rescued by the ghost of a man who died on the mountain.
Featuring Baffling Mysteries
Credits Pencils: Sy Grudko | Inks: Sy Grudko | 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 The Phantom Snow Queen (7 pages)
Synopsis Ski-jump sensation Irma Monroe has a vision of death the night before her fabulous nightly ski-jump at the New Hampshire Snowtop Lodge. She races to New York to see a psychiatrist about this. Meanwhile a skeletal phantom does all the work for her. Her boyfriend is worried. Going to New York he finds her comatose in a hospital, where she was brought after falling down an elevator shaft. Hearing the voice of her lover, Irma recovers. Mystery!
Credits Pencils: Maurice Gutwirth; George Appel | Inks: Maurice Gutwirth; George Appel
Content Genre: Horror
Text Story Unearthly Rendezvous (2 pages)
Synopsis A widowed sculptor is flying his dead woman's statue to an exhibition when the plane hits rough weather. He land, meets his ghost wife, spends some hours with her and then flies off again.
Credits Letters: typeset
Content Genre: Occult
Comic Story The Menace That Stalked Brooding Cunliffe (7 pages)
Synopsis Beautiful Cambria is torn between two men. Unfortunately one of them is a werewolf stalking the english countryside of Cunliffe. In the end the werewolf lover gets stabbed to death.
Credits Pencils: Jim McLaughlin | Inks: Jim McLaughlin | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Content Genre: Horror
Notes Saltarella submitted via the GCD Error List that this work was done by Lou Cameron. Cameron signed every one of his jobs since May 1953, and this work is not signed. Work is by Jim McLaughlin.
If you have a black-and-white e-reader, or if you're not able to read or expand the pictures, you might have a better viewing experience on the Nook App for iPad, Android, or PC. If you use the Nook App for PC, you can capture screenshots for use in crafting or digital artwork.
The data here in the description content section is courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a CC Attribution License. More details about this comic book description can be found at Grand Comics.
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