Digital Comic Museum - Baffling Mysteries 010 -JVJ


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15-September-2012 4:08 pm	\|
Username:	roxburylib
Comment:	The stories aren't overly interesting, but the last one, "Land of the Silicon Men" had a fairly original premise even if it didn't do much with it. The coloring on "Diogenes' Deadly Lamp" was surprisingly experimental for a comic of this vintage with shading and lighting effects. Colorists were paid extremely little money. Even at the time Jim Shooter was initially working at Marvel, colorists only got fifty cents per page.
25-May-2013 7:19 am	\|
Username:	thaibites
Comment:	I thought these stories were pretty good! Baffling Mysteries is one of my faves.

Issue: #10
Published: September 1952, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 36, Editing: Fred Gardener (uncredited)
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: Available as a scan at digitalcomicmuseum.com.

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Credits:	Pencils: John Chilly ? \| Inks: John Chilly ? \| Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Genre:	Horror-suspense

Comic Story (7 pages)	Diogenes' Deadly Lamp
Synopsis:	"Loathsome young parasite" Lex Markow steals Diogenes' lamp from an antique dealer, but the relic turns out to be cursed. When he tries to get rid of the lamp Markow hangs himself - like it was predicted.
Credits:	Script: Robert Turner \| Pencils: Jim McLaughlin \| Inks: Mario Rizzi ? \| Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Genre:	Horror-suspense
Characters:	Lex Markow

Comic Story (1 page)	Baffling Mysteries #11
Featuring:	Baffling Mysteries
Synopsis:	"Richard Lowell had heard the legend of the old witch that haunted the abandoned mansion on the hill..." On halloween night, Lowell takes a photo of the witch. No one believes him.
Genre:	Horror-suspense
Characters:	Richard Lowell

Comic Story (7 pages)	Nightmare Flight
Synopsis:	A young woman's fiancé returns, horribly scarred, months after he disappeared in a presumably fatal plane crash. He leads the woman into a death swamp, where she has to destroy an evil swamp queen to lay his tortured soul to rest.
Credits:	Pencils: Lou Cameron \| Inks: Lou Cameron ? \| Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Genre:	Horror-suspense

Comic Story (1 page)	Baffling Mysteries #12
Featuring:	Baffling Mysteries
Synopsis:	"The strange incident which is narrated below occurred in 1927, in the natural history museum of a large mid-western city..." The curator gets killed by a "tribal death mask" falling from the wall. The mask had complained about being relocated from its home country earlier on.
Genre:	Horror-suspense

Comic Story (7 pages)	Monster of the Moat
Synopsis:	A bypasser rescues a witch imprisoned by an evil sorcerer and marries her, but things turn out badly. Because the monster of the moat wants its revenge!
Credits:	Pencils: Paul Gattuso \| Inks: Richard Case \| Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Genre:	Horror-suspense

Text Story (2 pages)	Bells of Doom
Synopsis:	George Sanderval dreams that he murders a couple in a cathedral. Waking up he has stabbed his wife to death in his sleep. Was he executing an age-old curse which had befallen his family line?
Credits:	Letters: typeset
Genre:	Horror-suspense

Comic Story (7 pages)	Land of the Silicon Men
Synopsis:	A mysterious potion brought back from Africa turns men into glass ("silicon men"). When exploring the glass city, a party of reporters are captured. They turn on a siren. The silicon men break and shatter from the noise.
Credits:	Pencils: Louis Zansky \| Inks: Louis Zansky \| Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Genre:	Horror-suspense

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