Baffling Mysteries #8 Values

COVER DETAILS

Pencils: ? [“Ace” Baker] (see notes)

Inks: ? [“Ace” Baker] (see notes)

Notes: Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. refers to this artist as “Ace” Baker, a Matt-Baker-imitator, who worked for Ace Magazines.

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STORY DETAILS

Story #1 Story #2 Story #3 Story #4 Story #5 Story #6 Story #7 (7 Stories)

Title: The Bride's Borrowed Time

Synopsis: Husband becomes curious about the lifelike male dolls kept by his beautiful young wife -- and why one of them talked to him. Lucretia is a witch dabbling with the secrets of the "Australian bush country head-hunters".

Pages: 7.000

Pencils: Lou Cameron

Inks: Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio

Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)

Title: Baffling Mysteries #7

Synopsis: "One spring day in 1912, Richard Wentworth an American business man, checked in at a well known hotel in London ..." The ghost of a burning man warns Wentworth that the hotel is on fire. The building can be safely evacuated with no one getting harmed.

Pages: 1.000

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

Title: Jungle Idol's Vengeful Rage

Synopsis: Professional hunters in northern India stalk a black panther guided by Ra-La, goddess of destruction. Stealing Ra-La's ruby eyes, the hunters flee to London, but Ra-La catches on with them and takes bloody revenge.

Pages: 7.000

Pencils: Bill Molno ?

Title: Baffling Mysteries #8

Synopsis: "History tells us of the murderous career of Lucrezia Borgia who was one of the most feared women of Italy..." Actors rehearsing a play at the Borgia palace in 1933 are attacked by the ghost of Lucrezia.

Pages: 1.000

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

Title: At the Sound of Airi's Drum

Synopsis: Small-time punk kills a shopkeeper in Calcutta, then conjures up a mystical being using the drum that he stole from his victim. The drum's "djinn", Airi, grants him three wishes. The man's last wish is to be hidden from the police. Airi takes him down with him to his "fiery underworld domain".

Pages: 7.000

Pencils: Lou Cameron

Inks: Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio

Notes: Artwork appears to be by Lou Cameron but is unsigned.

Title: The Glacier's Secret

Synopsis: A pilot goes down on a glacier. He finds a cave and frozen viking warriors therein. By making a fire they come alive. The pilot is imprisoned but can escape.

Pages: 2.000

Letters: typeset

Notes: Story corresponds loosely to the cover of Baffling Mysteries #24 (viking warrior frozen in ice).

Title: Yama's Fiery Fury

Synopsis: Explorers in Sumatra encounter a race of belligerent lava-men. They can be rendered harmless by contact with water, of course.

Pages: 7.000

Pencils: Chic Stone

Inks: Chic Stone

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