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Baffling Mysteries 24 VG+ (4.5) (1955)

Baffling Mysteries 24 VG+ (4.5) (1955)

Ace Magazines · January 1955
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VG+4.5Very Good Plus
$120.00
SKU MAR18.25-0666
Publisher Ace Magazines
Decade 1950s
Pages 36
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Creators
PencilsJim McLaughlinCover PencilsKen Rice

Jeweler Norton Cross is brought to Java by the beautiful sorceress Thais. She sends him on a mission to reclaim three jade pieces. Norton kills for her and hopes to marry her. When the collection is complete, Norton learns that these were the fingers of Thais. She is a jade demon and will sacrifice him now.

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Issue
24
Cover Date
January 1955
Cover Price
$0.10 USD
Cover Inks
  • Jeweler Norton Cross is brought to Java by the beautiful sorceress Thais. She sends him on a mission to reclaim three jade pieces. Norton kills for her and hopes to marry her. When the collection is complete, Norton learns that these were the fingers of Thais. She is a jade demon and will sacrifice him now.
  • "Robert Fielding, a young American art student, spent a summer's vacation in England painting and exploring medieval castles..." Fielding discovers the magic reflection of a girl's face in the water of a castle's hidden well. She resembles the last female descendent of the Laraday line.
  • Searching for a cure for scorpion's venom, Dr. Marston and "his lovely daughter Celia" run into a cult of scorpion people. Their leader wants to take Celia as his queen. Celia gets bitten, but can be cured by her loving father.
  • "Kurt Halle was a mountain climber who dared the impossible. He scaled the treacherous Matterhorn alone..." Running into trouble on his way down, Halle is rescued by the ghost of a man who died on the mountain.
  • Ski-jump sensation Irma Monroe has a vision of death the night before her fabulous nightly ski-jump at the New Hampshire Snowtop Lodge. She races to New York to see a psychiatrist about this. Meanwhile a skeletal phantom does all the work for her. Her boyfriend is worried. Going to New York he finds her comatose in a hospital, where she was brought after falling down an elevator shaft. Hearing the voice of her lover, Irma recovers. Mystery!
  • A widowed sculptor is flying his dead woman's statue to an exhibition when the plane hits rough weather. He land, meets his ghost wife, spends some hours with her and then flies off again.
  • Beautiful Cambria is torn between two men. Unfortunately one of them is a werewolf stalking the english countryside of Cunliffe. In the end the werewolf lover gets stabbed to death.

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