(May 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
- ?
in 
The Bride's Borrowed Time
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Husband becomes curious about the lifelike male dolls kept by his beautiful young wife -- and why one of them talked to him. Lucretia is a witch dabbling with the secrets of the "Australian bush country head-hunters".
Baffling Mysteries #7
Baffling Mysteries / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- "One spring day in 1912, Richard Wentworth an American business man, checked in at a well known hotel in London ..."
The ghost of a burning man warns Wentworth that the hotel is on fire. The building can be safely evacuated with no one getting harmed.
Indexer Notes
One of a series of 1-page stories about supposedly true encounters with the supernatural.
Jungle Idol's Vengeful Rage
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Professional hunters in northern India stalk a black panther guided by Ra-La, goddess of destruction. Stealing Ra-La's ruby eyes, the hunters flee to London, but Ra-La catches on with them and takes bloody revenge.
Baffling Mysteries #8
Baffling Mysteries / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- "History tells us of the murderous career of Lucrezia Borgia who was one of the most feared women of Italy..."
Actors rehearsing a play at the Borgia palace in 1933 are attacked by the ghost of Lucrezia.
Indexer Notes
One of a series of 1-page stories about supposedly true encounters with the supernatural.
At the Sound of Airi's Drum
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Small-time punk kills a shopkeeper in Calcutta, then conjures up a mystical being using the drum that he stole from his victim. The drum's "djinn", Airi, grants him three wishes. The man's last wish is to be hidden from the police. Airi takes him down with him to his "fiery underworld domain".
Indexer Notes
Artwork appears to be by Lou Cameron but is unsigned.
The Glacier's Secret
text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A pilot goes down on a glacier. He finds a cave and frozen viking warriors therein. By making a fire they come alive. The pilot is imprisoned but can escape.
Indexer Notes
Story corresponds loosely to the cover of Baffling Mysteries #24 (viking warrior frozen in ice).
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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1.
The Bride's Borrowed Time
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2.
Baffling Mysteries #7
Baffling Mysteries -
3.
Jungle Idol's Vengeful Rage
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4.
Baffling Mysteries #8
Baffling Mysteries -
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At the Sound of Airi's Drum
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6.
The Glacier's Secret
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7.
Yama's Fiery Fury
This issue was modified by, among others
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Tillmann Courth
- Peter Croome
- Kenneth English
- Steven Rowe
- Jim Stangas
- Jim Walls
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