(March 1952)
Ace Magazines,
1951 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Periodical House Inc.
- Brand
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Ace
- Editing
- ?
Terror Beneath the Tides
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
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in Pre-Code Classics: Baffling Mysteries (PS Artbooks, 2018 series) #1 (August 2018)
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Indexer Notes
Frank Giusto was revealed to be the artist that fans had called "Ace Baker" in the 2012 book "Matt Baker: The Art of Glamour"
A Game with Lucifer
comic story / 7 pages
- 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. He and Cameron worked as a team in this phase of Ace horror comic books.
Baffling Mysteries #5
Baffling Mysteries / comic story / 1 page
- 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
comic story / 7 pages
- 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
Baffling Mysteries / comic story / 1 page
- 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
comic story / 7 pages
- 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
text story / 2 pages
- 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)
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Terror Beneath the Tides
comic story / 7 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I notice you alway frown at the sight of Old Ned Davis, Mr. Chernicky!
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- "Old Ned" Davis (dies); Casey Darrell; Morton Chernicky (dies); Stella
- Synopsis
- Newspaper publisher refuses to print his reporter's story about a murderous monster from the sea.
- Keywords
- Central California; whirlpool
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Terror Beneath the Tides
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1.
A Game with Lucifer
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2.
Baffling Mysteries #5
Baffling Mysteries -
3.
Scourge of the Kentucky Hills
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4.
Baffling Mysteries #6
Baffling Mysteries -
5.
Back from an Unhallowed Grave
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6.
The Mummy's Curse
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7.
Terror Beneath the Tides
This issue was modified by, among others
- Darci
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Nick Caputo
- Tillmann Courth
- Kenneth English
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Dan Kurdilla
- Steven Rowe
- Jim Stangas
- Jim Walls
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