House of Mystery #21
In "The Man Who Could See Death!", prisoner Dubois on the isolated Maricombe Island colony defies every attempt by guard Letrec to break him—until the torment begins to unravel Letrec’s own sanity. With Nick Cardy handling both pencils and inks, this chilling 1953 tale from House of Mystery delivers a stark, psychological descent into madness. Leonard Starr’s cover captures the story’s eerie tension with a haunting, shadowed portrait of a man on the edge.
In "The Man Who Could See Death!", a shadowy network of mediums, led by the enigmatic Tilang Meers, faces a threat when newspaperman Chuck Simms closes in on their secrets—putting their entire deception on the line. With eerie precision and mounting tension, the story unfolds as the line between illusion and the supernatural begins to blur.
In the isolated prison colony of Maricombe Island, guard Letrec takes it upon himself to break the unyielding prisoner Dubois. As Letrec pushes ever harder, the line between tormentor and tortured begins to blur—until his own mind starts to unravel.
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Reprinted in Tales of the Unexpected #36 (1959), The Doom Patrol #96 (1965), Superman Presents Wonder Comic Monthly #11 (1966), Ghosts #2 (1971), The Unexpected #133 (1972), Shock Classics #18 (1973), Skrækmagasinet #12/1973 (1973), Superman Presents Wonder Comic Monthly #109 (1974), Haunted Tales #17 (1977), Showcase Presents: Ghosts #1 (2012)
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