Baffling Mysteries #20 (Ace, 1954) CGC FN/VF 7.0 Cream to off-white pages....
Auction amount: $504.00
Sold: May 13, 2025
Baffling Mysteries #20 Values
Publisher: Ace Magazines, 1954
About Baffling Mysteries #20
Classic bondage cover. Lou Cameron art.Why sell your comic books with Heritage Auctions?
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COVER DETAILS
Inks: Jim McLaughlin ?
Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Notes: Previous indexer Saltarella suggested Lou Cameron ? for art credits.
STORY DETAILS
Synopsis: Victor Rarlo is a sadist who loves puzzles and lets people perish in his fiendish mazes. Being challenged by a strange mystic, Rarlo travels into psychedelic mind-mazes and gets irreversibly caught in the maze of his own mind.
Pages: 6.670
Pencils: Lou Cameron (signed)
Inks: Lou Cameron (signed)
Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Notes: Bottom of last page has statement of ownership signed by publisher A. A. Wyn.
Data Courtesy of Grand Comics Database under Creative Commons license
GoCollect Price Guide Report for this comic
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 |
1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33 |
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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Total | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 34 |
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