(September 1954)
Ace Magazines,
1951 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- quarterly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Periodical House Inc.
- Brand
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Ace
- Editing
- ?
Sculptress of Doom
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- The evil-minded Corella is a sculptress who can capture her model's souls in her statues. Her husband George finds out about it and has to decide between his wife and his life.
Baffling Mysteries # 37
Baffling Mysteries / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- "In the legends of the gypsies the weird affair of Charles Gower remains an unsolved, startling mystery..."
Gower kills a fortune teller, because the old woman "knows too much". He is haunted by her ghost and reveals himself to the police.
Curse of the Condemned Gypsy
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A violin is charged with a gypsy curse: the person who plays it, will commit a murder. The evil instrument goes through three murderous hands, before it can be destroyed.
- Reprints
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from Web of Mystery (Ace Magazines, 1951 series) #3 (June 1951)
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Baffling Mysteries # 38
Baffling Mysteries / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- "Victor Mayner was a 'ladies' man', a fortune hunter who preyed on lonely wealthy women..."
His career comes to a sudden stop when he woos a vampire lady.
Over My Dead Body
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Lou Cameron (signed)
- Inks
- Lou Cameron (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Typeset (Leroy lettering)
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- In a scheme to get his insurance money, struggling painter Ben Ober agrees to a fake burial of his comatose body. Everything goes not exactly as planned, and in the end there's the devil to pay.
- Reprints
The Undertaker's Apprentice
text story / 2 pages
- Synopsis
- Willie Keech is an exceptional young boy, obsessed with reanimating dead animals. He works as an undertaker's apprentice, practising with chemicals on dead human bodies. When Keech finally succeeds, he is murdered by a reanimated killer.
The Amulet of Terror
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- In Hungary, two treasure hunters steal a vampire's amulet out of its grave, thus releasing the beast. Following the men through half of Europe, the vampire finally retrieves his amulet and finds eternal rest in his grave again.
- Reprints
- from The Beyond (Ace Magazines, 1950 series) #3 (March 1951)
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Table of Contents
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[no title indexed]
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1.
Sculptress of Doom
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2.
Baffling Mysteries # 37
Baffling Mysteries -
3.
Curse of the Condemned Gypsy
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4.
Baffling Mysteries # 38
Baffling Mysteries -
5.
Over My Dead Body
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6.
The Undertaker's Apprentice
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7.
The Amulet of Terror
This issue was modified by, among others
- Tillmann Courth
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Dan Kurdilla
- Jim Stangas
- Jim Van Dore
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