Crypt of Shadows #5
In "I Die Too Often," a scientist's cobalt bomb test unleashes terrifying mutations, driving him to hunt down the changed victims he believes he's responsible for. When he wakes to find his own reflection twisted into a monster, he faces a chilling choice—only to be met with quiet domestic normalcy when his son stirs. The moment is both haunting and strangely tender, as the boy innocently wonders about a prank he'd played on his father, the mirror’s image now a silent, lingering question. Art by Robert Q. Sale, cover by Ron Wilson and Mike Esposito.
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A scientist invents a cobalt bomb that results in monstrous mutations in a few individuals present at the test site. He hunts them down and shoots them, but when he awakens from the night's work and looks in the bathroom mirror, he sees a monstrous visage glaring back at him. He thinks that he must have been affected as well and uses the gun on himself. The shot wakes his son and wife, but the mother tells her boy it was probably a car backfiring and to go back to sleep. The boy asks his mother how dad will take the joke he played taping a monster picture onto his bathroom mirror.
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