Haunt of Horror #1
In "The Rats!", a bank robber's violent act spirals into a haunting psychological nightmare when a single blow to the head plunges him into a guilt-ridden fantasy: Earth's population vanished, leaving only him and the dying clerk in a desolate, alien-occupied world. Penciled and inked by Russ Heath, this chilling tale from 1974 unfolds with stark, unsettling art, while Bob Larkin's cover captures the story's eerie dread.
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A bank robber shoots a clerk, and when he is slugged in the head by a police officer, he finds himself lost in a guilt induced fantasy where aliens have kidnapped all of Earth's population except for him and the clerk and the clerk dies in his arms from the bullet wound.
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