Pep Comics #57
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Man Who Wouldn't Stay Dead," a 1946 issue of Pep Comics, Professor Scott’s dangerous experiment with a resurrection serum leads to a chilling chain of events after he’s sentenced to the electric chair. Written and illustrated by Irv Novick, the story follows his desperate plan to return from the grave—only to find that death may not be the end, but the beginning of a darker fate. The cover, by Al Fagaly, captures the eerie tension of a man defying the grave, while the tale unfolds with a pulse of gothic suspense.
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Professor Scott has invented a serum that can bring people back from the dead. In order to find out if it works he kills a man but is caught by the police before he can administer the serum. Tried and convicted of murder, he's sentenced to the electric chair. He convinces his assistant Dr. Green to dig up his corpse and inject him with the serum so he can return from the grave to enact his revenge. Professor Scott electrocutes Dr. Ray for turning him in to the police. While trying to kill the district attorney he's stopped by Dusty and kills himself with a lethal injection. Never to return.
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