I'm sure most of you have figured out by now that the main thing drawing me to some of these vintage comics tends to be the awesome cover art. This one, too, while gorgeous (just look at that awesome skirt) won me over with the cover alone, and what could possibly be one of the most ridiculous lines I've ever read. The Baffling Mysteries comics often fell victim to your typical walls of text you see with any visual medium that hasn't quite grasped the law of 'show, don't tell'. Wasn't surprised at all to realize they came from Ace comics, who also produced Hand of Fate (which I've posted here before as well.) The characters in this one practically narrate everything. I mean
everything. Very much in the style of an ear play or radio drama. If it's dark, and the panel is painted dark, you'll be reminded by the character telling you that it's definitely dark; so on and so forth.
The first story focuses on South American goat-men gods. Or, as the rest of the world refers to them, Satyrs. There's plenty of color variation in the panels, but far too much text covering up the actual art. It seemed like as the stories progressed, the line art got a bit more rushed. There was potential with the goat-ment, and certainly a message about...archaeology and museums not being a bad thing, I guess. The second story in a far snowier setting has death skiing with a sort of urban legend twist to it. The best part about this comic is the art, really. The stories are just near-misses...but
man, look at all those bright yellows!
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