Creepy Worlds #219

When a scientist’s time travel experiment goes awry, he must make a desperate choice: send an alchemist from the past into the present, or risk being killed by a mob. With his wife watching in horror, Paul Carew activates the device, trading places with the ancient figure just as the crowd closes in.

In 1944, a captured U.S. soldier, Bill Sanders, finds himself tormented by Sgt. Fritz Bruner, who mocks him for carving a wooden doll for his daughter. When the soldier attempts an escape, a voice from the doll guides him through enemy lines—only to reappear decades later, watching as the same sergeant performs as a ventriloquist. The truth behind the voice, and the doll’s strange power, begins to unravel.

Captain Josef Tovar, a pirate captain who’s always relied on size and strength, stumbles upon the lost city of Atlantis and is granted a single wish. He calls for a body seven feet tall and as strong as a bull—only to find the Atlanteans are all far larger and more powerful than he imagined.

In "Under His Hat!" from Creepy Worlds #219, Mr. Gregor, an angel whose quiet kindness goes unnoticed, faces a moment of quiet defiance when a dying woman asks him to remove his hat—not out of curiosity, but out of respect. Though he hesitates, fearing the revelation of his halo, he finally complies, but only after ensuring no one else is watching.

John Burdock pours his heart into a machine meant to reach out across the stars—only to be told he’s failed when silence answers his call. Unbeknownst to him, his signal has been heard by Bakor, an alien from a distant world, whose people have just redirected their deadly weapons thanks to the message he never knew he sent.