Creepy Worlds #146
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "Your Life for Mine!", a haunted wooden doll becomes the unlikely key to survival in a wartime escape that defies logic and time. Written by Carl Wessler and illustrated by Frank Bolle, this chilling tale from 1974 blends wartime tension with a haunting mystery, where a soldier’s desperate act of carving a gift for his daughter may have saved his life in ways he never understood. The cover by John Severin captures the eerie atmosphere with a stark, unsettling image that hints at the doll’s unsettling presence.
In "Your Life for Mine!" from *Creepy Worlds* #146, a desperate scientist faces a mob and flees into his own time machine, swapping places with a 14th-century alchemist just as the crowd closes in. The story unfolds with tense urgency as two men from vastly different eras are thrust into each other’s worlds, with no way back.
In "The Wrong Choice!" from Creepy Worlds #146 (1974), a pirate captain stumbles upon the lost city of Atlantis and is granted a single wish—so he chooses to be seven feet tall and strong as a bull, only to discover the Atlanteans are far larger and mightier than he imagined.
In "Under His Hat!" from *Creepy Worlds* #146, an angel known for his quiet acts of kindness finds himself caught between duty and humility when a dying old woman requests he remove his hat—not for sight, but out of respect. Though he hesitates, fearing the reveal of his halo, he finally complies, but only after ensuring he’s alone with her.
Jo, a lonely inventor haunted by the silence of the cosmos, watches his life unravel when his boss fires him after his interstellar signal goes unanswered. Unbeknownst to him, his message reached a distant world—and changed everything, though he’ll never know it.
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