(November 1952)
Ace Magazines,
1951 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Periodical House, Inc.
- Brand
-
Ace
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
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in 
Appointment in Hades
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Gene Colan
- Inks
- Gene Colan
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset (Leroy lettering)
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Soldier Heath drowns while deserting his unit's fight on a beachhead. He returns to life, but is marked by the devil. The ghosts of his comrades catch up with him and drag him to hell, where he belongs.
- Reprints
in Baffling Mysteries #13
Baffling Mysteries / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset (Leroy lettering)
- Synopsis
- "The great italian composer, Rondo Amadi, met an untimely death in the 18th century..."
Amadi's ghost performs his missing violin concerto in front of two fellow composers.
Step into my Grave!
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Jim McLaughlin
- Inks
- Jim McLaughlin ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset (Leroy lettering)
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- On a plantation in Louisiana, a man stumbles upon a voodoo queen and her horde of zombies. The man's undead brother warns him, but all perish in a final show down ritual.
- Reprints
Baffling Mysteries #14
Baffling Mysteries / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset (Leroy lettering)
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Synopsis
- "High in the mountains of Mexico, in 1938, two young tourists completed a day's exploration..."
When the men get too tired to find their way back to the village, they are saved by a boy on a donkey leading the way. They learn that the boy was killed in an accident seven years ago.
Red Talons of Lupercalia
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Louis Zansky
- Inks
- Louis Zansky
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset (Leroy lettering)
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A mother and daughter travel to Czechoslovakia, where the daughter is to meet her future husband, count Falco Lupercalia. The count and his father are both vampires, who can also transform into werewolves. Mad fighting ensues. The mother manages to stab the vampires. The price for the victory: She goes mad!
- Reprints
The Curse
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- crime; horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Two men meet whose families have been cursed. One kills the other. But the curse demands that both die. So the first returns to his scene of crime where he is strangled by the specter of the other.
Sinister Return of the Priestess of Baal
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Chic Stone
- Inks
- Chic Stone
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset (Leroy lettering)
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- An exploration team awakenes the soul of Ashmedah, cruel priestess of Baal. She takes over the body of girl explorer Wanda and starts sacrificing humans again. The undead Wanda overcomes her evil nemesis. Both die in flames.
- Reprints
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Table of Contents
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0.
[Sinister Return of the Priestess of Baal]
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1.
Appointment in Hades
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2.
Baffling Mysteries #13
Baffling Mysteries -
3.
Step into my Grave!
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4.
Baffling Mysteries #14
Baffling Mysteries -
5.
Red Talons of Lupercalia
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6.
The Curse
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7.
Sinister Return of the Priestess of Baal
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