Strange Tales #16
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "You Can't Kill Me!", a condemned man's desperate pact with Satan to become a ghost sets off a chilling chain of events—only to find that spectral existence comes with a terrible price. Written by Stan Lee and brought to life by Mike Sekowsky’s art with Bill Walton’s inks, this 1953 Strange Tales tale explores the haunting limits of revenge and the loneliness of eternal drifting. The cover by Harry Anderson captures the story’s eerie, otherworldly tone.
In "You Can't Kill Me!" from Strange Tales #16 (1953), a desperate scientist uses his radical experiments to reattach severed heads—only to face a horrifying moral test when his daughter pleads for him to restore the head of a condemned man she wants to marry. With the stakes rising and the procedure already defying nature, he makes a choice that twists the science he built on love into something far more unsettling.
In "They Made Me a Ghost," a condemned man trades his soul to Satan for the power to haunt the judge who sentenced him—only to discover that as a ghost, he’s powerless to harm the living. Trapped between worlds, he’s swept away by the wind, drifting endlessly into the cold emptiness of space.
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Reprinted in Tomb of Darkness #21 (1976), Tomb of Darkness #22 (1976), Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales #2 (2009), Alter Ego #108 (2012)
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