Uncanny Tales #78
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "And Death Came Riding!", Hugh Carter faces a chilling encounter on the 13th floor of his office building, where a mysterious figure claims to be Death. With his wife's life hanging in the balance, Hugh is offered a reprieve—30 more years—if he accepts a strange bargain. The story unfolds with quiet dread, as a simple elevator ride becomes a haunting test of fate and love. Art by Harry Anderson and John Forte, with cover by Gene Colan and George Klein, brings a stark, atmospheric tension to this 1971 tale from Alan Class.
Daredevil brings Karen Page to her family’s estate in Virginia, hoping to finally confess his feelings—but their quiet moment is shattered by the sudden appearance of a glowing horseman haunting the grounds. As shadows deepen and secrets from Karen’s past rise, the mystery pulls Daredevil and Foggy into a danger far beyond their usual battles, with echoes of a forgotten villain and a legacy that may not be as buried as it seems.
In "Among the Missing!", prospector Kurt Channing returns from the desert with a tale of a lost city of marble and gold, only to be dismissed as delusional—until a photograph proves his story true. Now haunted by the memory of what he saw, a man who once doubted him spends years in the wild, chasing a legend that may or may not be real.
In the shadowed halls of a towering office building, Hugh Carter—haunted by a fragile heart and a wife's declining health—finds himself on the 13th floor, where the elevator doors open not to another level, but to a chilling encounter with Death itself. When the figure offers him a reprieve on the condition of living another three decades, Hugh descends, only to face a terrible truth: his wife was never meant to survive the night, and their final moment together may have been the universe’s cruelst mercy.
When miner Conn Landrum is pulled from the depths by Launa, a woman from a hidden underground society, he finds himself caught between two worlds—one of crushing darkness and one of fragile light. As he grapples with the choice of staying beneath the earth or returning to the uncertain surface, the quiet strength of Launa’s people begins to challenge everything he thought he knew.
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↩ Reprints Mystery Tales #21 (1954), Marvel Tales #149 (1956), Unusual Tales #1 (1959), Unusual Tales #21 (1969), Daredevil #56 (1969), Creepy Worlds #125 (1971), Unusual Tales #39 (1985), Creepy Worlds #41
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