Strange Tales #40
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "This Dark Cave," a man’s elaborate prank takes a strange turn when he stages a mermaid sighting to fool his skeptical friend—only to find the hoax unraveling in unexpected ways. With art by John Forte and a striking cover by Joe Maneely, this 1955 issue of Strange Tales delivers a chilling twist on a simple deception, leaving one man questioning what’s real and what’s been staged all along.
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A man attempts to play a joke on a skeptical friend by hiring a girl with a mermaid costume to be dropped into the sea by a helicopter and then brought out of ocean with a net. The trick works on his friend and he tells his men to throw the girl back but the friend thinks he is mad to release such an amazing discovery. He lets the man know that he set the stunt up to fool him when one of his men tells him that the girl he had hired had become ill that day and never showed up for the prank.
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