Creepy Worlds #161

When scientist Bart Lanning investigates a ghostly apparition connected to a condemned prisoner's final moments, he stumbles onto a revolutionary theory: intense human emotion can pierce the barrier between past and present, creating mirages of traumatic historical events. As Bart becomes obsessed with proving his discovery, his focus on the work pulls him away from those closest to him, setting the stage for an encounter that will test everything he believes about the nature of reality itself.

In "The Invisible Men!" from Creepy Worlds #161 (1976), Harry Miles—once a man given five years to live after a Korean War explosion—finds unexpected fame as a mystery writer, only to discover his fictional creations are stepping out of the pages and into his world.

In "The Reformers," a group of interplanetary agents sent to corrupt alien societies by blaming their ills on comic books, alcohol, and fashion are stunned when they arrive on a world where such indulgences coexist with peace and virtue. Despite their mission to sow discord, they find a civilization that embraces pleasure without falling into moral decay—until their leader, Satan, reveals the truth: this world is not just different, it’s Heaven.

Herb Thomas of the Boston Blade arrives in the struggling town of Jonesville to investigate why a prosperous New England community collapsed into poverty, only to uncover a decades-old tragedy: a special locomotive called the Prairie Belle, built to launch Ephraim Flint's ambitious railroad venture to Arizona, was sabotaged and destroyed in a fiery trestle disaster that killed everyone aboard—including Flint's daughter, Selena. Now, as Thomas digs deeper into the story and travels west to Harper City, he becomes drawn into the mystery of the disaster, haunted by whispers of a ghost train that still pounds the rails in the dark of night.