Baffling Mysteries #15

(May 1953)

Snakes Alive! (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Charles Nicholas

Inks

Charles Nicholas

Colors

?

Letters

typeset (Leroy lettering)

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

In balmy Alfredo Springs in Florida a voodoo snake goddess runs amuck. Claudia kills four people and ends up in court! Admitting everything she is confined to a mental institution. There she strangles her psychiatrist and escapes.

Baffling Mysteries #23 (Table of Contents: 2)

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

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

typeset (Leroy lettering)

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

"The pirate lore that still is told and written about, does not include this strange tale..."
Two pirates murder their captain for a bigger share of the loot. The captain's ghost returns and takes revenge.

Indexer Notes

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

Bazaar of the Cursed Goblins (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Lin Streeter

Inks

Lin Streeter

Colors

?

Letters

typeset (Leroy lettering)

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

Brutal landowner Lord Trevelyan is lured to a carnival of cruelties by the ghost of his dead wife. There on display are all the atrocities he's done to his peasants. Trevelyan flees the scene, but is caught at home and burned with his manor.

My Image of Evil (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 6.67 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Jim McLaughlin

Inks

Jim McLaughlin

Colors

?

Letters

typeset (Leroy lettering)

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

Engineer Cranford discovers a parallel world made of glass. The glass people want to take over our world with Cranford's help. He rejects their wish and has to avoid any glass object from there on. Cranford is thought of being mad. He is happy to be confined to a windowless padded cell.

Indexer Notes

This is the comic story version of the text story "World Of Glass!" from Beyond #19, published two months earlier.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

statement of ownership / 0.33 page (report information)

Script

A. A. Wyn (credited) (publisher, business manager)

Letters

typeset

Baffling Mysteries #24 (Table of Contents: 6)

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

Script

?

Pencils

Bill Molno ?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

typeset (Leroy lettering)

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

"In 1896, the discovery of a jeweled necklace by British archeologists in the tomb of an Egyptian princess, caused a stir of excitement throughout the world..."
The necklace of death strangles anyone who wears it. Just that happens to a gangster's girl when he steals it from the museum.

Reprints

• in Classic Monsters of Pre-Code Horror Comics: Mummies (Yoe Books, 2017 series) (June 2017)

Indexer Notes

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

The Jade Idol (Table of Contents: 7)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

Adventurer Larry Ireland steals a jade idol from an Indonesian village temple. The idol incarnates a vengeful Sholto deity. Back in San Francisco, Ireland is horribly murdered by the idol come to life.

Quiet Stalks the Undead Fiend (Table of Contents: 8)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Louis Zansky

Inks

Louis Zansky

Colors

?

Letters

typeset (Leroy lettering)

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

The Radcliffes move into a haunted house, completely furnished with a vampire in the cellar. Dora Radcliffe gets attacked by the beast, changes herself into a vampire and destroys the fiend. Husband Lew has the sad task of staking his wife and burning the house down.