Baffling Mysteries #5 Values

Publisher: Ace Magazines, 1951

About Baffling Mysteries #5

First issue of the title, formerly Indian Braves. Gene Colan and Mike Sekowsky art.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: Volcano of Vengeance

Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)

STORY DETAILS

(7 Stories)

Title: Volcano of Vengeance

Synopsis: Tod Sloane, field man for the North American Museum, investigates Mount Pataxo, located in a small Central American country. In this volcano, an age-old but benign cult of godlike "goatmen" has survived. The superstitious locals want to sacrifice Sloane to prevent volcanic eruption. He is saved by the goatmen and their queen Arni. Sloane manages to disperse the locals superstition and wins a valuable artifact.

Pages: 7.000

Pencils: Mike Sekowsky

Inks: Vince Alascia ?

Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)

Title: Phantom Snow Queen

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!

Pages: 7.000

Pencils: Maurice Gutwirth; George Appel

Inks: Maurice Gutwirth; George Appel

Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)

Reprints: Baffling Mysteries (Ace Magazines, 1951 series) #24 (January 1955)

Title: The Lady Was a Tiger

Synopsis: Bonita Jackson, wife to big-game-hunter Stuart, falls ill in the jungles of Western India and is brought to mysterious Dr. Zander, the only help available. Zander is mad and injects tiger blood into the veins of the unsuspecting woman. The lady turns into a tiger and runs off into the jungle. The worried husband follows her, gets in danger and is rescued by his tigeress. Husband confronts doctor, doctor draws gun, tiger leaps in and kills doctor.

Pages: 7.000

Pencils: Ken Rice

Inks: Ken Rice

Title: Baffling Mysteries [#1]

Synopsis: "The Danube river flows through small towns in lower Germany." Two pranksters scare a ferryman on Halloween. They disguise as death ("We are Death!") ?!? They ferry off into Nowhere.

Pages: 1.000

Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)

Title: Underwater Mystery

Synopsis: The travel liner "Arcadia" goes down off the coast of New York. A husband and his wife struggle against drowning and experience wild fantasies. A creature named Zrynyi strangles them. They are rescued, Zrynyi lying dead beside them. Wild visions - or were they?!

Pages: 2.000

Letters: Typeset

Title: Baffling Mysteries [#2]

Synopsis: "The buried treasure of Captain Kidd..." Man strolling on beach finds pirate treasure. Captain Kidd appears, man stabs him and runs to the police. On the crime scene, the Captain has changed into the body of an innocent beachchomber.

Pages: 1.000

Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)

Title: Terror in the Coal Pits

Synopsis: Nurse Jarvis encounters a mine foreman in the Pennsylvania hills, who leads her to a group of men, caught in a cave-in. They give her instructions about a hidden, rich vein. Reporting this event in town, she if baffled to hear that the cave-in took place ten years ago, all the men were lost and the mine expired. The nurse and the mine owner's son investigate and discover an entrance to the cave-in. They marry and strike it richly.

Pages: 7.000

Pencils: Gene Colan

Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)

Reprints: Baffling Mysteries (Ace Magazines, 1951 series) #25 (July 1955)

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CGC Census Report*

Grade	0.5	1.0	1.5	1.8	2.0	2.5	3.0	3.5	4.0	4.5	5.0	5.5	6.0	6.5	7.0	7.5	8.0	8.5	9.0	9.2	9.4	9.6	9.8	9.9	10.0	Total
Universal	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	1	3	1	2	2	2	1	1	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	21
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Restored	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	1	3	1	2	2	2	1	1	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	21

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