Journey into Mystery #5
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn 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.
In "Fright," a chilling tale from Journey into Mystery #5 (1953), a sadistic asylum keeper finds his cruelty turned against him when his assistant drugs him during a pivotal court hearing. With the judge declaring him unfit, the man is sentenced to the very asylum he once ruled with fear—now a prisoner among those he tormented, welcomed with eerie delight by the inmates.
In a secluded Haitian village, Blackie panics when the man he wronged—Larson—returns from the dead, wielding the power to command zombies. Desperate to survive, Blackie attempts to summon his own undead servant in the graveyard, only to awaken the very creature Larson once controlled. As the zombie turns on its creator, Larson watches from the shadows, his grim satisfaction clear.
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Reprinted in Dracula #6 (1973), Crypt of Shadows #2 (1973), Dracula Lives #1 (1973), Dracula #1/1974 (1974), Dracula lever #1/1974 (1974), Capitan America #98 (1977), Curse of the Weird #2 (1994), Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey into Mystery #1 (2008), Atlas Creator Collection #3 (2026), Die Gruft von Graf Dracula #10
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