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Baffling Mysteries #24

Ace Magazines [1940s-1950s] · Series began 1951 · January 1955

Dates

Cover date
January 1955
Pages
36

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Jim McLaughlin, Sy Grudko, Frank Giusto, Maurice Gutwirth, George Appelinks: Jim McLaughlin, Sy Grudko, Frank Giusto, Maurice Gutwirth, George Appel

Stories

  • The Sacred Fingers of Princess Thais · 7 pages

    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.

  • Baffling Mysteries #41 · Baffling Mysteries · 1 pages

    "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.

  • Scourge of the Scorpion Cult · 7 pages

    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.

  • Baffling Mysteries #42 · Baffling Mysteries · 1 pages

    "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.

  • The Phantom Snow Queen · 7 pages

    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!

  • Unearthly Rendezvous · 2 pages

    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.

  • The Menace That Stalked Brooding Cunliffe · 7 pages

    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.

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