Sinister Tales #81
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Woman Who Played with Dolls," a tense standoff unfolds between a communist general and a reluctant lama, as the general demands the location of a hidden alien spacecraft. When the lama finally yields to threats against the peasants, the soldiers’ search leads them straight into a shocking revelation—what they thought was a mountain is actually the ship itself, lifting off in a sudden, violent departure. Steve Ditko’s distinctive art and Artie Simek’s lettering bring a haunting, surreal quality to the tale, while Bill Everett’s cover captures the story’s eerie, otherworldly tension.
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A communist general demands that the lama tell him of the alien space ship that has landed for repairs. At first the lama refuses to allow the aliens to be conquered by the communists, but he relents after the general threatens to execute all the peasants. The soldiers march off to the mountain the lama has indicated, but after a fruitless search they conclude the lama must have been lying. Suddenly, the mountain begins to shake violently and the soldiers realize too late as it blasts off that the mountain was the space ship.
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