Web of Evil #7
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Ship of Lost Souls," John Blane, a man obsessed with defying death at age seventy, drinks a forbidden elixir meant to grant eternal life—after a fatal act of violence. Though sentenced to die by electric chair, he survives, only to spiral into a life of crime and suffering, culminating in a brutal car accident that leaves him trapped in a hospital bed for eternity. The story, illustrated with stark intensity by Charles Nicholas, unfolds with a chilling sense of inevitability, while Jack Cole’s cover art captures the eerie, doomed atmosphere of the tale.
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John Blane turns 70 years of age and is obsessed with wanting to live forever. One of the researchers in his laboratories comes up with a liquid which will grant eternal life. Blane drinks down the potion after having murdered his employee who was unwilling to part with it. He is quickly sentenced to die in the electric chair, but can’t be killed. The immortal Blane is locked away, but escapes and commits a bank robbery. During his getaway Blane is horribly mutilated in a car accident and has to spend eternity confined to a hospital bed.
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