Creepy Worlds #159
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "I Dared Explore the Unknown Emptiness!", a judge’s routine sentencing takes a surreal turn when he’s hurled back in time 300 years, mistaken for a sorcerer due to his modern clothes, a family photo, and a cigar lighter. Written by Carl Wessler and illustrated by Paul Reinman, this eerie tale from Creepy Worlds #159 (1975) follows the judge’s disorienting journey through the past and his haunting return to the present, where he grapples with second thoughts about justice. The cover by Don Heck captures the story’s unsettling mood with striking, moody detail.
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A judge sentences a man to ninety days in the workhouse for vagrancy and finds himself back in time 300 years. He is pulled off the street because of his strange clothes and the judge thinks his family photograph and cigar lighter are examples of black magic. He escapes and finds himself back in the present. He has second thoughts about the sentence he has passed and releases the man he had charged the previous day.
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