BAFFLING MYSTERIES #5 * CGC 2.5 * Hoofprints of Doom

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Title: BAFFLING MYSTERIES No. 5
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Publisher:Ace [Indicia: Periodical House Inc.]
Date Published: November, 1951
Description: CGC certified: Good (2.5). Off-white to white pages. Grader notes: Staple detached bottom of cover; creasing to cover; large piece out right center of back cover; spine stress lines to cover. Note: Some minor marks to slab.

GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. A 3.0 sold for $265 in 7/23.

Credits: Mike Sekowsky, Vince Alascia?, Maurice Gutwirth, George Appel, Kenneth Rice, Gene Colan.Hoofprints of Doom: Satanic siren heats her feet with a hellish brazier of red-hot coals, as Pan-like goat-men manhandle her helpless human captive. Inside, cloven-hooved horrors practice human sacrifice; Death rides the ski slopes; tiger-woman mauls man who slapped her map.______________________________________________________________

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