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CATALOG RECORD

Crypt of Shadows #5

Marvel · Series began 1973 · September 1973

Dates

Cover date
September 1973
On sale
June 12, 1973
Pages
36

Editions and covers

Creators

letters: Morrie Kuramotoscript: Carl Wesslerpencils: Gil Kane, Sol Brodsky, Jim Mooney, Robert Q. Saleediting: Stan Leeinks: Sol Brodsky, Jim Mooney, Robert Q. Sale

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 Man Who Steals Gravestones! · 4 pages

    A man who steals gravestones in order to grind them down and resell them is thwarted when one of the corpses wants it back.

  • 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.

  • Half Man, Half...? · 5 pages

    A scientist invents a cobalt bomb that results in monstrous mutations in a few individuals present at the test site. He hunts them down and shoots them, but when he awakens from the night's work and looks in the bathroom mirror, he sees a monstrous visage glaring back at him. He thinks that he must have been affected as well and uses the gun on himself. The shot wakes his son and wife, but the mother tells her boy it was probably a car backfiring and to go back to sleep. The boy asks his mother how dad will take the joke he played taping a monster picture onto his bathroom mirror.

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