Baffling Mysteries #7

(March 1952)

A Game with Lucifer (Table of Contents)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Lou Cameron

Inks:

Lou Cameron

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

horror-suspense

Characters:

Barry Archer; The Devil

Synopsis:

Grandmaster Barry Archer plays chess with the Devil.

Indexer Notes

Inks are probably by Rocco Mastroserio. They worked as a team in this phase of Ace horror comic books.

Baffling Mysteries #5 (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

horror-suspense

Synopsis:

"Arthur Regan, well known American artist, had a strange experience in the summer of 1927..."
Visiting friends, Regan meets the ghost of a girl who drowned herself in the fountain pool.

Indexer Notes

One of a series of 1-page stories about supposedly true encounters with the supernatural.

Scourge of the Kentucky Hills (Table of Contents)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Jim McLaughlin

Inks:

Mario Rizzi ?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

horror-suspense

Characters:

Werewolf

Synopsis:

A dying doctor becomes a werewolf after his assistant gives him the transplanted heart of a wolf.

Baffling Mysteries #6 (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

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Letters:

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Content Information

Genre:

horror-suspense

Synopsis:

"There has been a great deal of discussion concerning mediums who hold seances..."
A woman's murder is solved by contacting the victim through a medium.

Indexer Notes

One of a series of 1-page stories about supposedly true encounters with the supernatural.

Back from an Unhallowed Grave (Table of Contents)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Mike Sekowsky

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

horror-suspense

Characters:

Count Ricco

Synopsis:

Count Ricco unwittingly unearths the body of a vampire (his niece).

Indexer Notes

Artwork appears to be by Mike Sekowsky but is unsigned. Inks credits originally given to Mike Sekowsky in error (per Tony Isabella, March 30, 2006)

The Mummy's Curse (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

crime

Synopsis:

Egyptian Whodunit: Archeologist sets deadly trap for his employer by springing a mummy's poisoned ornament on him. Egyptian detective can put the blame on him.

Reprints:

• from The Beyond (Ace Magazines, 1950 series) #1 (November 1950)

Terror Beneath the Tides (Table of Contents)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Mike Sekowsky

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset (Leroy lettering)

Content Information

Genre:

horror-suspense

Synopsis:

Newspaper publisher refuses to print his reporter's story about a murderous monster from the sea.