Baffling Mysteries #10

(September 1952)

Diogenes' Deadly Lamp (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Robert Turner

Pencils

Jim McLaughlin

Inks

Mario Rizzi ?

Colors

?

Letters

typeset (Leroy lettering)

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Lex Markow

Synopsis

"Loathsome young parasite" Lex Markow steals Diogenes' lamp from an antique dealer, but the relic turns out to be cursed. When he tries to get rid of the lamp Markow hangs himself - like it was predicted.

Reprints

• in Crypt of Horror (AC, 2005 series) #30 (2016)

Indexer Notes

Robert Turner lists this as one of the stories he wrote from late 1950 - 1952, in his book "Some of My Best Friends Are Writers..." (1970).

Baffling Mysteries #11 (Table of Contents: 2)

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

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Richard Lowell

Synopsis

"Richard Lowell had heard the legend of the old witch that haunted the abandoned mansion on the hill..."
On halloween night, Lowell takes a photo of the witch. No one believes him.

Reprints

• in Web of Scares Special Collector's Edition (Dennis Druktenis, 2009 series) #1 (October 2009)

Indexer Notes

One of a series of 1-page stories about supposedly true encounters with the supernatural.

Nightmare Flight (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Lou Cameron

Inks

Lou Cameron ?

Colors

?

Letters

typeset (Leroy lettering)

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

A young woman's fiancé returns, horribly scarred, months after he disappeared in a presumably fatal plane crash. He leads the woman into a death swamp, where she has to destroy an evil swamp queen to lay his tortured soul to rest.

Reprints

• in Crypt of Horror (AC, 2005 series) #30 (2016)
• in Classic Monsters of Pre-Code Horror Comics: Swamp Monsters (Yoe Books, 2019 series) (May 2019)

Baffling Mysteries #12 (Table of Contents: 4)

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

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

"The strange incident which is narrated below occurred in 1927, in the natural history museum of a large mid-western city..."
The curator gets killed by a "tribal death mask" falling from the wall. The mask had complained about being relocated from its home country earlier on.

Reprints

• in Crypt of Horror (AC, 2005 series) #30 (2016)

Indexer Notes

One of a series of 1-page stories about supposedly true encounters with the supernatural.

Monster of the Moat (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Paul Gattuso

Inks

Richard Case

Colors

?

Letters

typeset (Leroy lettering)

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

A bypasser rescues a witch imprisoned by an evil sorcerer and marries her, but things turn out badly. Because the monster of the moat wants its revenge!

Reprints

• in Crypt of Horror (AC, 2005 series) #30 (2016)

Bells of Doom (Table of Contents: 6)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

George Sanderval dreams that he murders a couple in a cathedral. Waking up he has stabbed his wife to death in his sleep. Was he executing an age-old curse which had befallen his family line?

Land of the Silicon Men (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Louis Zansky

Inks

Louis Zansky

Colors

?

Letters

typeset (Leroy lettering)

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

A mysterious potion brought back from Africa turns men into glass ("silicon men"). When exploring the glass city, a party of reporters are captured. They turn on a siren. The silicon men break and shatter from the noise.

Reprints

• in Crypt of Horror (AC, 2005 series) #30 (2016)