Suspense #17
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Little Black Box," a chilling tale from Suspense #17 (1952), a college fraternity member’s descent into cruelty reaches a terrifying climax when he ties himself to a tombstone during a twisted initiation ritual—unaware that the grave beneath him holds the boy he once killed. With art by Werner Roth and a haunting cover by Sol Brodsky and George Roussos, this 10-cent classic delivers a grim, atmospheric story of guilt and retribution, all set in the quiet dread of a moonlit cemetery.
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When a pledge dies during a college initiation, the frat boy responsible for it does not mend his ways but continues to think up more sadistic rituals. His next one involves being tied to a tombstone in the cemetery and attempting to frighten the pledges, but he doesn't notice that the tombstone he ties himself to belongs to the boy he killed and the grave opens beneath him to swallow him up.
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