Tales of Suspense #12
In "I Alone Know the Dread Secret of Gor-Kill, the Living Demon!", a twisted jailer's cruel experiment with a mysterious book about a hidden alien civilization below Earth spirals into a chilling tale of obsession and futility. Written by Steve Ditko and illustrated by Ditko, with colors by Stan Goldberg and letters by Artie Simek, this 1960 Marvel classic delivers a haunting blend of science fiction and psychological dread. The cover, by Jack Kirby and George Klein, captures the story’s eerie tone with a striking image of the imprisoned man and the shadowy depths beneath.
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A sadistic jailer buys a book detailing an alien civilization that has retreated below the Earth in order to avoid surface climate change in order to torment his prisoner with false hope of escape. The prisoner finds the book and believes the story and later he finds a working digger to bring him down to the aliens below who welcome him. The astonished jailer spends the rest of his life unsuccessfully attempting to locate another working digger.
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