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Baffling the way the distressed blonde in red disappeared with the new comics code - here she is in one of her last appearances – though the cover appears to have no connection to the stories within
Gruesomely great art throughout with the best story IMHO being Slaves of the Orchid Goddess – could have been easily expanded into more. |
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LOL the Gold Digger is sentenced to hell for being a homewrecker who drove broken hearts to suicide. I enjoyed the corny opening story a lot for how much style it had. |
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Publication | March 1953 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
Notes | Original art ID by Jim Vadeboncoeur. |
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Credits | Pencils: Frank Giusto | Inks: Frank Giusto | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
Notes | Original art ID by Jim Vadeboncoeur. |
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Comic Story | The Dead Are Never Lonely (7 pages) |
Synopsis | Actress Nolita is killed in an argument with her husband. She flees the crypt, hoping to escape death. As her body withers away in the world of the living, she returns to death and finds peace with her late husband. |
Credits | Pencils: Jim McLaughlin | Inks: Mike Esposito? | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
Content | Genre: Fantasy |
Notes | Possible Esposito inks per Nick Caputo, September 2018. |
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Comic Story | Baffling Mysteries #22 (1 page) |
Synopsis | "There is a man today, in Spain, who has in his possession two macabre paintings..."
People die gazing upon paintings of horror. |
Featuring | Baffling Mysteries |
Credits | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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Comic Story | Prowl of the Stalking Terror (7 pages) |
Synopsis | A surgeon believes in vampires. To prove his theory he drags his uncle from the crypt who was a vampire! The bloodthirsty vampire rampages through the hospital and infects his nephew. After more killings, the surgeon overcomes his vampirism by means of a blood transfusion and both uncle and nephew fall struggling with each other out of a window to their death. |
Credits | Pencils: George Klein? | Inks: George Klein | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
Notes | Possible Klein pencils and Klein inks per Nick Caputo, September 2018. |
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Comic Story | Baffling Mysteries #21 (1 page) |
Synopsis | "On the desolate coast of Nova Scotia, there stands a lighthouse..."
All lighthouse keepers vanish. Two tourists staying the night find out that all of them cruise the sea at night - in a rowboat. |
Featuring | Baffling Mysteries |
Credits | Pencils: Bill Molno? | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
Content | Genre: Fantasy |
Notes | Possible Molno pencils per Nick Caputo, September 2018. |
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Comic Story | Beware the Graveyard Clay (7 pages) |
Synopsis | The sculptor Clatrow forms voodoo dolls out of graveyard clay. Ridding himself with this mystic power of his mentor, Clatrow plans to marry the daughter of the house. Visions of the murdered man haunt Clatrow, he breaks his own voodoo image by accident and dies. |
Credits | Pencils: Charles Nicholas | Inks: Charles Nicholas? | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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Text Story | The Curse of Bell's Rectory (2 pages) |
Synopsis | A treasure hunter digs up gold and silver in the well of an old rectory. The deacon's ghost (to whom the treasure belongs) appears and kills the thief. |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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Comic Story | Slaves of the Orchid Goddess (7 pages) |
Synopsis | In the jungle of Bengali, two adventurers encounter the orchid goddess and her man-eating orchids. They escape to the new world, bringing along a small plant. As it grows, it turns their florist business into a little shop of horrors. |
Credits | Pencils: Howard Larsen | Inks: Howard Larsen | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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