Tomb of Darkness #22
In "I Created Grutan!", a condemned man’s desperate pact with Satan to become a ghost backfires when he discovers his spectral form can’t touch the world he seeks to torment—leaving him adrift in the endless void of space. Written by Stan Lee and illustrated by Mike Sekowsky with inks by Bill Walton, this haunting 1976 tale explores the tragic limits of vengeance. The cover, a striking collaboration by Michael Netzer, John Romita, and Pablo Marcos, captures the eerie isolation of a soul lost between worlds.
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A condemned man makes a deal with Satan to be made a ghost so that he can haunt the judge responsible for his sentence. As a ghost, he finds himself unable to affect the physical world and the wind eventually blows him out into the void of space where he drifts for eternity.
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