Issue: #12
Published: December 1952, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 36, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: Some information for this index supplied by Saltarella via the GCD Error Tracker, August 2010.
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| Cover (1 page) |
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| Credits: |
Pencils: Jim McLaughlin | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
Vengeance of the Tiger Queen |
| Synopsis: |
Though the natives warn him about the "tiger people", big game hunter Deerson kills and beheads a noble tiger in Sumatra. Visions of a headless man and a visit from beautiful princess "Tigrina" lure him back into the jungle. Tigrina transforms into a tigress and takes revenge for her tiger husband. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Chic Stone | Inks: Chic Stone | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
Paint a Picture in Crimson |
| Synopsis: |
Count Damon, who seems to be the devil but also an art painter in Soho, London, weaves fates by painting people. A model first marries a lord, then starts murdering people and ends up killed by her own husband who turn out to be a werewolf. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Al Eadeh | Inks: Al Eadeh | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
Baffling Mysteries #15 |
| Featuring: |
Baffling Mysteries |
| Synopsis: |
"There is a strange tale still being told in a small country in the Balkans..."
A duchess takes a golden mirror from a gypsy woman by violence. She is cursed and dies looking into the mirror. |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
House of the Screaming Fiends |
| Synopsis: |
A young doctor and his wife inherit a spooky house where the old undead doctor and his caretaker conduct fiendish experiments on former patients. The young doctor wants to put these creatures out of their misery. Fighting ensues. The bad guys are overpowered by their own slaves, the place goes up in flames. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Dick Beck | Inks: Pete Costanza ? | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
Baffling Mysteries #16 |
| Featuring: |
Baffling Mysteries |
| Synopsis: |
"Stories have been told of clannish feuds among families of Scotland..."
A creek wherein a man was murdered runs with blood, but only once a year, on the anniversary of the murder. |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Fantasy |
| Text Story (2 pages) |
Painting of the Dead |
| Synopsis: |
Gordon Haverstraw is drawn into a painting and relives a crime he committed in another reality. He dies in the painting, and his wife finds his mutilated body in front of the painting. |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
Never Bargain with a Spirit |
| Synopsis: |
A gambler comes into possession of the talisman of Ceasar Borgia, which helps him to amass fortunes. The price will be his soul. All attempts to get rid of the talisman fail. In the end his soul is lost to the devilish Borgia. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Mike Sekowsky | Inks: Bill Walton ? | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
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