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| Terrific art and innovative stories all the way through this one - a particular heads-up for Sy Grudko, a new favourite of mine - check out those compositions, angles and depth of scene. |
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| Publication | September 1954 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: quarterly |
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| Credits | Pencils: Jim McLaughlin? | Letters: Typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | Sculptress of Doom (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | The evil-minded Corella is a sculptress who can capture her model's souls in her statues. Her husband George finds out about it and has to decide between his wife and his life. |
| Credits | Pencils: Ken Rice | Inks: Ken Rice | Letters: Typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | Baffling Mysteries # 37 (1 page) |
| Synopsis | "In the legends of the gypsies the weird affair of Charles Gower remains an unsolved, startling mystery..."
Gower kills a fortune teller, because the old woman "knows too much". He is haunted by her ghost and reveals himself to the police. |
| Featuring | Baffling Mysteries |
| Credits | Pencils: Sy Grudko | Inks: Sy Grudko | Letters: Typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | Curse of the Condemned Gypsy (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | A violin is charged with a gypsy curse: the person who plays it, will commit a murder. The evil instrument goes through three murderous hands, before it can be destroyed. |
| Credits | Pencils: Jay Scott Pike | Inks: Jay Scott Pike |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | Baffling Mysteries # 38 (1 page) |
| Synopsis | "Victor Mayner was a 'ladies' man', a fortune hunter who preyed on lonely wealthy women..."
His career comes to a sudden stop when he woos a vampire lady. |
| Featuring | Baffling Mysteries |
| Credits | Pencils: Sy Grudko | Inks: Sy Grudko | Letters: Typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | Over My Dead Body (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | In a scheme to get his insurance money, struggling painter Ben Ober agrees to a fake burial of his comatose body. Everything goes not exactly as planned, and in the end there's the devil to pay. |
| Credits | Pencils: Lou Cameron (signed) | Inks: Lou Cameron (signed) | Letters: Typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Text Story | The Undertaker's Apprentice (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Willie Keech is an exceptional young boy, obsessed with reanimating dead animals. He works as an undertaker's apprentice, practising with chemicals on dead human bodies. When Keech finally succeeds, he is murdered by a reanimated killer. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Comic Story | The Amulet of Terror (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | In Hungary, two treasure hunters steal a vampire's amulet out of its grave, thus releasing the beast. Following the men through half of Europe, the vampire finally retrieves his amulet and finds eternal rest in his grave again. |
| Credits | Pencils: Mike Sekowsky |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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