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| Publication | March 1952 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
| Notes | Frank Giusto was revealed to be the artist that fans had called "Ace Baker" in the 2012 book "Matt Baker: The Art of Glamour" |
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| Cover | Terror Beneath the Tides |
| Credits | Pencils: Frank Giusto | Inks: Frank Giusto | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
| Notes | Frank Giusto was revealed to be the artist that fans had called "Ace Baker" in the 2012 book "Matt Baker: The Art of Glamour" |
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| Comic Story | A Game with Lucifer (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Grandmaster Barry Archer plays chess with the Devil. |
| Credits | Pencils: Lou Cameron | Inks: Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio? | Letters: Ben Oda? |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Barry Archer; The Devil |
| Notes | Inks are probably by Rocco Mastroserio. He and Cameron worked as a team in this phase of Ace horror comic books. |
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| Comic Story | Baffling Mysteries #5 (1 page) |
| Synopsis | "Arthur Regan, well known American artist, had a strange experience in the summer of 1927..."
Visiting friends, Regan meets the ghost of a girl who drowned herself in the fountain pool. |
| Featuring | Baffling Mysteries |
| Credits | Letters: Ben Oda? |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
| Notes | One of a series of 1-page stories about supposedly true encounters with the supernatural. |
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| Comic Story | Scourge of the Kentucky Hills (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | A dying doctor becomes a werewolf after his assistant gives him the transplanted heart of a wolf. |
| Credits | Pencils: Jim McLaughlin | Inks: Mario Rizzi? |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Werewolf |
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| Comic Story | Baffling Mysteries #6 (1 page) |
| Synopsis | "There has been a great deal of discussion concerning mediums who hold seances..."
A woman's murder is solved by contacting the victim through a medium. |
| Featuring | Baffling Mysteries |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
| Notes | One of a series of 1-page stories about supposedly true encounters with the supernatural. |
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| Comic Story | Back from an Unhallowed Grave (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Count Ricco unwittingly unearths the body of a vampire (his niece). |
| Credits | Pencils: Mike Sekowsky? |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Count Ricco |
| Notes | Artwork appears to be by Mike Sekowsky but is unsigned. Inks credits originally given to Mike Sekowsky in error (per Tony Isabella, March 30, 2006) |
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| Text Story | The Mummy's Curse (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Egyptian Whodunit: Archeologist sets deadly trap for his employer by springing a mummy's poisoned ornament on him. Egyptian detective can put the blame on him. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Crime |
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| Comic Story | Terror Beneath the Tides (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Newspaper publisher refuses to print his reporter's story about a murderous monster from the sea. |
| Credits | Pencils: Mike Sekowsky? | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: "Old Ned" Davis (dies); Casey Darrell; Morton Chernicky (dies); Stella |
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