Creepy Worlds #147
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free"Behind the Veil!" in Creepy Worlds #147 (1974) delivers a chilling blend of psychological suspense and supernatural unease, as a desperate man's plan to rob his bank takes a terrifying turn when he’s haunted by a vision of being irradiated and lethal to touch. Written by Stan Lee and Larry Lieber, with art by Don Heck and lettering by Ray Holloway, the story unfolds with a creeping dread that lingers long after the final panel. The striking cover by Bill Everett captures the eerie tone, setting the stage for a tale where reality and hallucination blur.
In "The Second-Hand Man!" from Creepy Worlds #147 (1974), Jo buys a used car once driven by an executed gangster—and soon finds himself acting with a recklessness he doesn’t understand. The car’s past seems to stir something dark in him, turning his quiet life into something unrecognizable.
In "My Touch Means... Doom!", a desperate man plans to rob his bank to save his wife’s life—only to be haunted by a terrifying vision of himself turning lethal to the touch during the escape. The twist? The guard he faces isn’t just unarmed; he’s a psychiatrist hypnotist who’s engineered the hallucination to stop the crime.
During World War II, Captain Bill Manion of the U.S. Air Corps and Lady Cynthia Conway, daughter of an English aristocratic family, fall deeply in love—but her brother Alfred fiercely opposes their union. When Cynthia rushes to meet Bill at Picadilly Station to run away to America, a terrible car crash leaves her in a coma, and she awakens with a fractured mind, convinced she's living an entirely different life in Kansas as Bill's wife. Years pass as doctors struggle to reach her, each detail of her elaborate delusion growing stranger—until Bill himself arrives with a story that mirrors hers in impossible ways.
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↩ Reprints Mystic #33 (1954), Astonishing #59 (1957), Strange Stories of Suspense #16 (1957), Tales to Astonish #16 (1961), Forbidden Worlds #103 (1962), Unknown Worlds #20 (1962)
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