Creepy Worlds #120

In "O, Bitter Victory!" from *Creepy Worlds* #120, the Silver Surfer finds himself hunted by the tyrannical Yarro Gort, who exploits the Surfer’s past to consolidate power. With Shalla Bal wounded and the fate of Zenn-La hanging in the balance, the Surfer must confront a foe who weaponizes his own history—forcing him to choose between vengeance and the fragile hope of redemption.

A mysterious model village in Jasper Crane's possession begins affecting Coryville's real landmarks in impossible ways—when Tony Bennett, the town engineer, witnesses a clock tower and statue move in reality moments after being repositioned in miniature, he realizes the elderly recluse's vengeful threat to "tear the town down" may be far more literal than anyone believed. As inexplicable disasters multiply and Tony investigates Crane's house, he uncovers a sorcerous connection between the two villages that puts the entire community in peril.

When modern cowboy Ed Morris crashes his jeep into a deadly quicksand pit, a mysterious figure dressed in traditional garb—bearing a withered left arm—appears from nowhere to save his life, then vanishes just as mysteriously. Back at the ranch, no one believes Ed's story, but a trip to the library uncovers a stunning connection to the past that may explain the impossible rescue. This tale from *Creepy Worlds* #120 offers a ghostly puzzle that blends the Old West with something far more unexplainable.

In "The World of the Firebirds," the crew of an Earth Galaxy space patrol ventures to a distant fire planet at the edge of the cosmos, where they encounter a race of humanoid aliens eager to establish first contact. The story unfolds with quiet wonder, blending cosmic mystery and the quiet tension of two civilizations meeting across the void.

Dr. Ernest X. Norton, a staunch man of science, joins an exclusive club where he clashes with the elderly Andrew Morhardt over whether magic could ever rival scientific truth. When Morhardt spins tales of Stromboli, a powerful 16th-century Italian practitioner of the arcane arts—complete with predictions that came unnervingly true—Norton dismisses it all as superstition, until a mysterious encounter forces him to confront evidence he can't easily explain away. This is a battle between belief and doubt that neither reason nor ridicule can settle.