(January 1955)
Ace Magazines,
1951 Series
The Sacred Fingers of Princess Thais
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Jeweler Norton Cross is brought to Java by the beautiful sorceress Thais. She sends him on a mission to reclaim three jade pieces. Norton kills for her and hopes to marry her. When the collection is complete, Norton learns that these were the fingers of Thais. She is a jade demon and will sacrifice him now.
Indexer Notes
Saltarella submitted via the GCD Error List that this work was done by Lou Cameron.
Cameron signed every one of his jobs since May 1953, and this work is not signed. Work is by Jim McLaughlin.
Baffling Mysteries #41
Baffling Mysteries / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Synopsis
- "Robert Fielding, a young American art student, spent a summer's vacation in England painting and exploring medieval castles..."
Fielding discovers the magic reflection of a girl's face in the water of a castle's hidden well. She resembles the last female descendent of the Laraday line.
Indexer Notes
One of a series of 1-page stories about supposedly true encounters with the supernatural.
Scourge of the Scorpion Cult
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Searching for a cure for scorpion's venom, Dr. Marston and "his lovely daughter Celia" run into a cult of scorpion people. Their leader wants to take Celia as his queen. Celia gets bitten, but can be cured by her loving father.
- Reprints
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from The Beyond (Ace Magazines, 1950 series) #6 (September 1951)
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Indexer Notes
Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr first indentified that this artist was not Matt Baker.
Baffling Mysteries #42
Baffling Mysteries / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- "Kurt Halle was a mountain climber who dared the impossible. He scaled the treacherous Matterhorn alone..."
Running into trouble on his way down, Halle is rescued by the ghost of a man who died on the mountain.
Indexer Notes
One of a series of 1-page stories about supposedly true encounters with the supernatural.
The Phantom Snow Queen
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Ski-jump sensation Irma Monroe has a vision of death the night before her fabulous nightly ski-jump at the New Hampshire Snowtop Lodge. She races to New York to see a psychiatrist about this. Meanwhile a skeletal phantom does all the work for her. Her boyfriend is worried. Going to New York he finds her comatose in a hospital, where she was brought after falling down an elevator shaft. Hearing the voice of her lover, Irma recovers. Mystery!
- Reprints
- from Baffling Mysteries (Ace Magazines, 1951 series) #5 (November 1951)
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Unearthly Rendezvous
text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Synopsis
- A widowed sculptor is flying his dead woman's statue to an exhibition when the plane hits rough weather. He land, meets his ghost wife, spends some hours with her and then flies off again.
The Menace That Stalked Brooding Cunliffe
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Beautiful Cambria is torn between two men. Unfortunately one of them is a werewolf stalking the english countryside of Cunliffe. In the end the werewolf lover gets stabbed to death.
- Reprints
- from Web of Mystery (Ace Magazines, 1951 series) #5 (October 1951)
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Indexer Notes
Saltarella submitted via the GCD Error List that this work was done by Lou Cameron.
Cameron signed every one of his jobs since May 1953, and this work is not signed. Work is by Jim McLaughlin.
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The Sacred Fingers of Princess Thais
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Baffling Mysteries #41
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Scourge of the Scorpion Cult
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Baffling Mysteries #42
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The Phantom Snow Queen
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Unearthly Rendezvous
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The Menace That Stalked Brooding Cunliffe
This issue was modified by, among others
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Tillmann Courth
- Peter Croome
- Kenneth English
- Tony R. Rose
- Steven Rowe
- Jim Stangas
- Jim Van Dore
- Jim Walls
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