Strange Tales #66

In "The Ghost Came C.O.D.," a clever con artist finds a peculiar loophole: sending bills to the recently dead, counting on grieving widows to settle the debt without question. His scheme unravels when one of his victims returns—not as a ghost, but as a Martian who has been living inside a human body all along, and he’s not pleased with the billing.

In "The Replacement!", a desperate criminal steals a dying man’s jacket and discovers a mysterious airline ticket inside—only to find himself aboard a plane with no crew and no other passengers. As the aircraft takes flight, his panic grows, but the truth behind the ticket’s destination remains hidden. When police later find his body in a field, the man whose life was meant to end is suddenly alive, having cheated Death by accident.

In "The Voice of Fido!", a clever ventriloquist relies on his dog as his silent partner in a stage act—until a sudden fire forces the dog to speak, guiding people to safety. Though the crowd marvels at the impossible feat, the ventriloquist insists he didn’t utter a word, leaving the truth of the dog’s voice hanging in the smoke.

In "It Waits under the Sea!" from Strange Tales #66 (1958), a diver ventures into the deep with a daring global journey in mind—until curiosity pulls him into a mysterious underwater tunnel. Trapped in a hidden chamber beneath the ocean, he finds himself part of a forgotten exhibit, unseen and unheard until the next time the tank is opened.

In "He Wore a Black Beard," a man living with a reclusive inventor is thrown off balance when a mysterious visitor claims to be from the future. With a scheme brewing and a stolen fortune in hand, he soon finds himself confronting a chilling truth about the man he thought he was manipulating.