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Adventures into Terror #17

Marvel · Series began 1950 · March 1953

Dates

Cover date
March 1953
Pages
36

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Sam Kweskin, Carl Burgos, Gil Kane, Joe Sinnott, Ken Landau, Jim Mooneyinks: Sam Kweskin, Carl Burgos, Joe Sinnott, Ken Landau, Jim Mooneycolors: Stan Goldbergscript: Carl Wesslerletters: Joe Letterese, Sam Rosen

Stories

  • I Die Too Often · 5 pages

    A convicted killer has a repeating dream of dying in the electric chair. Finally, the event is real and he is relieved the dreams have stopped in the peace of death...until he hears the warden summon his ghost from its grave and back through the green door. He realizes that he is damned to an eternity of executions.

  • The Window · 1.67 pages

    A lawyer's hotel window looks out on an alien landscape, allowing him to discover the Martian plan to conquer Earth.

  • The Vandals! · 5 pages

    When four vandals enter a museum at night to cut off the gold heads from a hydra idol, they end with their heads placed upon the evil idol.

  • Casper's Boss! · 5 pages

    When his smoker boss doesn't lend him the money he needs for his wife's operation and she dies, a man ties the smoker up in a shed filled with explosives.

  • They Don't Complain · 3 pages

    This story postulates that dead people remain aware and sensate during their autopsies.

  • Red as a Lobster · 5 pages

    Lobsters get their revenge on a diver who likes to boil them alive in order to observe their suffering by herding him into a hot-spring.

Reprinted in

Crypt of Shadows (1973), Frankenstein (1973)

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