(November 1951)

Ace Magazines, 1951 Series
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Price
0.10 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
bi-monthly
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Periodical House Inc.
Brand
Ace

Issue Notes

First issue of Baffling Mysteries.
Formerly Indian Braves.

[Volcano of Vengeance] (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset (Leroy lettering)

Genre
fantasy-supernatural

Volcano of Vengeance (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Mike Sekowsky
Inks
Vince Alascia ?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset (Leroy lettering)

Genre
fantasy-supernatural
Synopsis
Tod Sloane, field man for the North American Museum, investigates Mount Pataxo, located in a small Central American country. In this volcano, an age-old but benign cult of godlike "goatmen" has survived. The superstitious locals want to sacrifice Sloane to prevent volcanic eruption. He is saved by the goatmen and their queen Arni. Sloane manages to disperse the locals superstition and wins a valuable artifact.
Reprints

Phantom Snow Queen (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Maurice Gutwirth; George Appel
Inks
Maurice Gutwirth; George Appel
Colors
?
Letters
typeset (Leroy lettering)

Genre
fantasy-supernatural
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!
Reprints

The Lady Was a Tiger (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Kenneth Rice
Inks
Kenneth Rice
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
horror-suspense
Synopsis
Bonita Jackson, wife to big-game-hunter Stuart, falls ill in the jungles of Western India and is brought to mysterious Dr. Zander, the only help available. Zander is mad and injects tiger blood into the veins of the unsuspecting woman. The lady turns into a tiger and runs off into the jungle. The worried husband follows her, gets in danger and is rescued by his tigeress. Husband confronts doctor, doctor draws gun, tiger leaps in and kills doctor.

Baffling Mysteries [#1] (Table of Contents: 4)

Baffling Mysteries / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset (Leroy lettering)

Genre
fantasy-supernatural
Synopsis
"The Danube river flows through small towns in lower Germany."
Two pranksters scare a ferryman on Halloween. They disguise as death ("We are Death!") ?!?
They ferry off into Nowhere.

Underwater Mystery (Table of Contents: 5)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Genre
horror-suspense
Synopsis
The travel liner "Arcadia" goes down off the coast of New York. A husband and his wife struggle against drowning and experience wild fantasies. A creature named Zrynyi strangles them. They are rescued, Zrynyi lying dead beside them. Wild visions - or were they?!

Baffling Mysteries [#2] (Table of Contents: 6)

Baffling Mysteries / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset (Leroy lettering)

Genre
horror-suspense
Synopsis
"The buried treasure of Captain Kidd..."
Man strolling on beach finds pirate treasure. Captain Kidd appears, man stabs him and runs to the police. On the crime scene, the Captain has changed into the body of an innocent beachchomber.

Terror in the Coal Pits (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Gene Colan
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset (Leroy lettering)

Genre
fantasy-supernatural
Synopsis
Nurse Jarvis encounters a mine foreman in the Pennsylvania hills, who leads her to a group of men, caught in a cave-in. They give her instructions about a hidden, rich vein. Reporting this event in town, she is baffled to hear that the cave-in took place ten years ago, all the men were lost and the mine expired. The nurse and the mine owner's son investigate and discover an entrance to the cave-in. They marry and strike it richly.
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [Volcano of Vengeance]
  2. 1. Volcano of Vengeance
  3. 2. Phantom Snow Queen
  4. 3. The Lady Was a Tiger
  5. 4. Baffling Mysteries [#1]
    Baffling Mysteries
  6. 5. Underwater Mystery
  7. 6. Baffling Mysteries [#2]
    Baffling Mysteries
  8. 7. Terror in the Coal Pits
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Tillmann Courth
  • Peter Croome
  • Katy Hayhurst
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Jim Stangas
  • Jim Van Dore