Baffling Mysteries #8

(May 1952)

The Bride's Borrowed Time (Table of Contents)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

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Pencils:

Lou Cameron

Inks:

Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio

Colors:

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Letters:

typeset (Leroy lettering)

Content Information

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 (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

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Letters:

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Content Information

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 (Table of Contents)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

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Pencils:

Bill Molno ?

Inks:

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Colors:

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Letters:

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Content Information

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 (Table of Contents)

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

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Script:

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Content Information

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 (Table of Contents)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Lou Cameron

Inks:

Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio

Colors:

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Letters:

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Content Information

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 (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

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Letters:

typeset

Content Information

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).

Yama's Fiery Fury (Table of Contents)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

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Pencils:

Chic Stone

Inks:

Chic Stone

Colors:

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Letters:

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Content Information

Genre:

horror-suspense

Synopsis:

Explorers in Sumatra encounter a race of belligerent lava-men. They can be rendered harmless by contact with water, of course.