Strange Tales #28
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free"Come Share My Coffin" delivers a chilling twist in Strange Tales #28, a 1954 Marvel classic where a prison commandant’s ruthless tactics backfire in the most literal sense. As he uses a prisoner’s own scheme against him, the true horror unfolds when the commandant finds himself trapped in a coffin with his informant—revealing a deadly secret that’s been buried all along. Pete Tumlinson’s stark art and Morrie Kuramoto’s tight lettering heighten the tension, while Harry Anderson’s cover captures the story’s grim, claustrophobic dread.
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A prison commandant learns through an informant that prisoners are escaping by being placed in coffins with the dead and later dug up. In order to get the names of the underground railroad, the commandant has his informant buried alive and promises that he will dig him up. After waiting in the coffin for some time, the informant strikes a match and screams in horror to see that the commandant is sharing the coffin with him. He realizes that the commandant must have been poisoned by a spy.
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