The Thing #13
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeAn anthology issue containing at least two stories: one involving members of Delta Gamma sorority undergoing a hazing ritual at a haunted location, where they must prove their courage before being admitted as full members; and "Avery and the Goblins," in which a prospector who has spent fifteen years searching for goblin treasure in a black castle finally discovers it, only to be tricked by the goblins into joining their lair and becoming trapped there for eternity.
Rex Chandler, the campus practical joker, orchestrates an elaborate fraternity initiation prank at a supposedly haunted house to test the courage of three pledges—but when he and the underclassmen vanish into the attic, the fraternity brothers who wait outside discover something far more terrifying than any staged scare. What Rex prepared as the ultimate hazing joke becomes a genuine mystery as the searchers find only Rex, aged and broken, with no trace of the three pledges.
In "Avery and the Goblins," an old prospector named Avery Calhoun ventures into a foreboding castle, drawn by rumors of hidden treasure—only to find himself surrounded by a clan of cannibal goblins who’ve claimed the place as their own. As he navigates the eerie halls, every step closer to the hoard brings a growing sense of dread, testing his wits and nerve in a deadly game of survival.
Accomplished pickpocket Rod Strang makes a desperate escape from the police by hiding in an aquarium, seeking refuge among the tanks—but he's made a fatal miscalculation about what kind of "poor fish" he's stumbled into. What begins as a clever evasion becomes a nightmare when the criminal discovers he's chosen the wrong tank to hide in.
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Reprinted in Doomsday #9 (1973), Doomsday #12 (1973), Doomsday #13 (1974), Doomsday #14 (1974), Super Giant #17 (1975), Ghostly Tales Album #11 (1980), The Best of Horror and Science Fiction Comics #1 (1987), Steve Ditko Reader #[1] (2002), Steve Ditko Reader #3 (2005), Steve Ditko's The Thing! #[nn] (2006), Crypt of Horror #4 (2007), The Steve Ditko Archives #1 (2009), Los Archivos de Steve Ditko #1 (2010), Haunted Horror #6 (2013), The Steve Ditko Archives #1 (2014), Classic Monsters of Pre-Code Horror Comics: Mummies #[nn] (2017), Gwandanaland Comics #1999-A (2019), The Thing #13 (2023), Gwandanaland Comics #1420-A
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