Hi True Believer

Sign Up for Your 5-day Free Trial To See Comic Values

ISSUE SUMMARY

Publisher: Ace Magazines
Title: Baffling Mysteries
Page Count: 36
Genre: Horror-suspense
Era: Golden
Cover Price: 0.10 USD
Cover Date: May 1953
UPC:
ISBN:
Country: United States
In balmy Alfredo Springs in Florida a voodoo snake goddess runs amuck. Claudia kills four people and ends up in court! Admitting everything she is confined to a mental institution. There she strangles her psychiatrist and escapes.; Brutal landowner Lord Trevelyan is lured to a carnival of cruelties by the ghost of his dead wife. There on display are all the atrocities he's done to his peasants. Trevelyan flees the scene, but is caught at home and burned with his manor.; Engineer Cranford discovers a parallel world made of glass. The glass people want to take over our world with Cranford's help. He rejects their wish and has to avoid any glass object from there on. Cranford is thought of being mad. He is happy to be confined to a windowless padded cell.; The Radcliffes move into a haunted house, completely furnished with a vampire in the cellar. Dora Radcliffe gets attacked by the beast, changes herself into a vampire and destroys the fiend. Husband Lew has the sad task of staking his wife and burning the house down.; "The pirate lore that still is told and written about, does not include this strange tale..." Two pirates murder their captain for a bigger share of the loot. The captain's ghost returns and takes revenge.; "In 1896, the discovery of a jeweled necklace by British archeologists in the tomb of an Egyptian princess, caused a stir of excitement throughout the world..." The necklace of death strangles anyone who wears it. Just that happens to a gangster's girl when he steals it from the museum.