Journey into Mystery #5
In the shadowed streets of a Haitian village, fear takes on a flesh-and-blood form in "Fright," a chilling tale from Journey into Mystery #5 (1953). When a desperate criminal named Blackie tries to summon a zombie to punish the man he wronged, he unwittingly unleashes a force far deadlier than he imagined—especially when the reanimated corpse answers to a master he already knows. Penciled and inked by Tony DiPreta, the story unfolds with a creeping dread, while Bill Everett’s cover captures the moment of terror in stark, haunting detail.
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In a Haitian village, a criminal named Blackie becomes afraid for his life when a man named Larson he framed for a crime has learned how to raise the dead and control the reanimated corpses as zombies. After learning how to raise the dead he tricks Larson into meeting him in the grave yard and tries to raise a zombie to kill Larson. But to Blackie's horror, he has risen the zombie that Larson previously raised himself. Instead of following Blackie's orders, the zombie turns on his would be master, with Larson watching in glee at his enemies fate.
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