Journey into Mystery #19
In *Journey into Mystery #19* (1954), a man’s unease grows when his wife’s collection of exotic figurines begins to behave with eerie realism—especially after one is broken. When he tries to rid himself of her latest purchase, a rattlesnake figurine, he’s stunned by a sudden, unsettling twist: she claims she traded it for a figure of an atomic bomb. Written by Paul S. Newman and illustrated by Howie Post, with a cover by Sol Brodsky, this chilling tale blends domestic tension with supernatural dread in a story that’s as unsettling as it is unforgettable.
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A man finds that the oriental figures his wife buys somehow turn into the real thing when they are broken. He wants to be rid of her, so he buys a rattlesnake figurine. When he returns to the house from watching a movie, he breaks the sack containing the figurine against the wall, as she tells him from the kitchen that she exchanged it for a figurine of an atomic bomb.
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