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Issue: Baffling Mysteries #6 Public Domain
Publication Date: January 1952
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Issues: #6 of 22 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagAce Magazines
Brand: AceView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Periodical House Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 8 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U. S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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Pages: 1
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Macabre Ritual in Witches' Glen

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Mike Sekowsky
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Witchcraft is at work in New England. A young couple witness "the exchange": a witch transforms her soul into the body of a freshly killed girl. The couple escape, but are stalked by the witch in her new body. Struggling with the man, she falls to her death.
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Pages: 7
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Baffling Mysteries #3

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: supernatural
Feature(s): Baffling Mysteries
Synopsis: "In the early days of the American west, towns seemed to spring up almost overnight..." When they are deserted later on, they become "ghost towns". A tourist visits such a ghost town, encountering actual ghosts.
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Pages: 1
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Fatal Rendezvous

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jim McLaughlin
Inker(s): Mario Rizzi ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Warner Davis dies on the operating table, goes to heaven, but is sent back, because his time has not yet come. Davis awakes with the gift of clairvoyance and starts warning people about their deaths. No one believes him. Tortured by his knowledge, he is finally happy to die.
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Pages: 7
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Baffling Mysteries #4

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: supernatural
Feature(s): Baffling Mysteries
Synopsis: "In 1897, Pierre Paitel, a painter, fell in love with Emilie, beautiful daughter of the count of Monceau..." The count forbids their relationship. The painter goes to Paris, the girl dies of broken heart, believing her lover forgot about her.
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Horror on Canvas

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Art painter Blake Roberts dies in a car crash, but awakens in the morgue as a deformed living dead man. He paints himself an evil picture, which guides his rotten soul. Roberts goes on a mission to destroy beauty and kill people. While struggling with his ex-fiancées new lover, the monster gets stabbed and melts away - into a heap of bones.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Unusually and uniquely bad artwork for Ace. Could be a swipe artist's singular try.
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Peril of the Half-Dead

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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Pages: 2
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Black Magic in a Slinky Gown

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Mike Sekowsky ?
Inker(s): Bill Walton ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Leonore Black is a beautiful woman, but also able to transform herself into a giant black widow spider. In this form she kills men who do harm to spiders: collectors and zoologists. The human black widow meets her fate when stung to death by a swarm of wasps.
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In Content Item: FlagHaunted Horror #1 published October 2012
as Black Magic in a Slinky Gown [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Tentative credits from Haunted Horror (IDW Publishing, 2012 series) #1.

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