(November 1953)
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- bi-monthly
- Indicia Publisher:
- Periodical House, Inc.
- Brand:
- Ace
- Editing:
- ?
- Format:
- Color; Standard Golden Age U.S.; Glossy cover; Newsprint interior; saddle-stitched
[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)
cover / 1 page (report information)
Credits
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset (Leroy lettering)
Content Information
- Genre:
- horror
6 of Me on the Prowl (Table of Contents)
comic story / 7 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Ken Rice
- Inks:
- Ken Rice
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset (Leroy lettering)
Content Information
- Genre:
- horror
- Synopsis:
- An evil sculptress and a mad doctor create six clones of ex-G.I. Barney Phelps. As the clones commit crimes, the real Phelps is desperate to stop them.
Baffling Mysteries # 29 (Table of Contents)
Baffling Mysteries / comic story / 1 page (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset (Leroy lettering)
Content Information
- Genre:
- horror
- Synopsis:
- "In a dingy warehouse of an opera house in Europe, hangs a life-size, almost human puppet, untouched for years..."
When a mysterious, devil-like stranger plays his violin, a puppeteer turns into his own puppet.
12 Hours to Doom (Table of Contents)
comic story / 7 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Lou Cameron (signed)
- Inks:
- Lou Cameron (signed)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset (Leroy lettering)
Content Information
- Genre:
- horror
- Synopsis:
- Businessman Arthur Matlin discovers a magic sundial which summons Chronos, the spirit of time. With the help of Chronos, Matlin can travel some hours ahead into the future. He uses this ability to commit crimes. When the police catch up with him and destroy the sundial, Matlin is condemned to wander the future without ever returning.
Baffling Mysteries # 30 (Table of Contents)
Baffling Mysteries / comic story / 1 page (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset (Leroy lettering)
Content Information
- Genre:
- horror
- Synopsis:
- "Years ago, when wild Nomad tribes roamed the Sahara desert, a leader appeared and tried to organize these people..."
This man, El Kabir, is killed by an envious rival chief. But El Kabir's ghost still wanders the desert, helping people in trouble.
The Ghost in the Portrait (Table of Contents)
comic story / 7 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Ken Rice
- Inks:
- Ken Rice
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- horror
- Synopsis:
- A young couple free the ghost of an evil ancestor. He takes revenge on the bones of the people who sentenced him to death. Then he commands the man to murder his wife, as he did with his wife. The woman manages to destroy the evil spirit in the last moment. The couple lives happily ever after.
- Reprinted:
- from Challenge of the Unknown (Ace Magazines, 1950 series) #6 (September 1950)
The Medium's Warning (Table of Contents)
text story / 2 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Synopsis:
- A murdered woman's ghost rises from the grave to get her killer husband to join her in death.
Crimson Wraith from the North (Table of Contents)
comic story / 7 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Sy Grudko
- Inks:
- Sy Grudko
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset (Leroy lettering)
Content Information
- Genre:
- horror
- Synopsis:
- From an uranium valley in the Arctic rises a fog monster, taking on the form of Professor Charters. The fog travels to the US, but has to sustain its form by draining bodies off their blood. The vampire fog is overcome when set on fire.
Editing
Table of Contents
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1.
6 of Me on the Prowl
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2.
Baffling Mysteries # 29
Baffling Mysteries -
3.
12 Hours to Doom
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4.
Baffling Mysteries # 30
Baffling Mysteries -
5.
The Ghost in the Portrait
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6.
The Medium's Warning
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7.
Crimson Wraith from the North
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- Dan Kurdilla
- Tillmann Courth
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