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CATALOG RECORD

Baffling Mysteries #22

Ace Magazines [1940s-1950s] · Series began 1951 · September 1954

Dates

Cover date
September 1954
On sale
June 4, 1954
Pages
36

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Kenneth Rice, Sy Grudko, Jay Scott Pike, Lou Cameron, Mike Sekowskyinks: Kenneth Rice, Sy Grudko, Jay Scott Pike, Lou Cameron

Stories

  • Sculptress of Doom · 7 pages

    The evil-minded Corella is a sculptress who can capture her model's souls in her statues. Her husband George finds out about it and has to decide between his wife and his life.

  • Baffling Mysteries # 37 · Baffling Mysteries · 1 pages

    "In the legends of the gypsies the weird affair of Charles Gower remains an unsolved, startling mystery..." Gower kills a fortune teller, because the old woman "knows too much". He is haunted by her ghost and reveals himself to the police.

  • Curse of the Condemned Gypsy · 7 pages

    A violin is charged with a gypsy curse: the person who plays it, will commit a murder. The evil instrument goes through three murderous hands, before it can be destroyed.

  • Baffling Mysteries # 38 · Baffling Mysteries · 1 pages

    "Victor Mayner was a 'ladies' man', a fortune hunter who preyed on lonely wealthy women..." His career comes to a sudden stop when he woos a vampire lady.

  • Over My Dead Body · 7 pages

    In a scheme to get his insurance money, struggling painter Ben Ober agrees to a fake burial of his comatose body. Everything goes not exactly as planned, and in the end there's the devil to pay.

  • The Undertaker's Apprentice · 2 pages

    Willie Keech is an exceptional young boy, obsessed with reanimating dead animals. He works as an undertaker's apprentice, practising with chemicals on dead human bodies. When Keech finally succeeds, he is murdered by a reanimated killer.

  • The Amulet of Terror · 7 pages

    In Hungary, two treasure hunters steal a vampire's amulet out of its grave, thus releasing the beast. Following the men through half of Europe, the vampire finally retrieves his amulet and finds eternal rest in his grave again.

Reprinted in

The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! (2010)

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