Five-Score Comic Monthly #14
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Day The Earth Stopped," Emmet Mason becomes entangled in a mysterious curse tied to a lamp he buys, one that demands it stay lit for ten years or risk death. When the lamp is destroyed in a fire, a blue ruby is revealed—evidence of theft, everyone assumes, except Mason, who can't shake the feeling the curse was something more. Art by Mort Meskin, with a cover by Bob Brown, this 1959 tale from Five-Score Comic Monthly #14 blends eerie suspense with a lingering question that refuses to be answered.
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Emmet Mason purchases a lamp accompanied by a legend that the owner must keep it lit for ten years or be cursed with death. Mason protects the lamp at all costs until it is destroyed in a fire and a blue ruby found inside. The curse was a cover for the stolen gem, everyone is certain, except for Mason, who still wonders about the curse.
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