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Weird Mysteries#11
Cover: Bernard Baily
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artist, inker Eugene Hughes
cover pencils, inks Bernard Baily
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An old man realizes his nephew is poisoning him for his gold. He has his servant melt his gold down. He mixes a radioactive solution into the liquid gold. After he dies, per his instructions, the servant imbalms his corpse with the radioactive liquid gold and then cremates his corpse. The ashes are put into a gold urn and given to the nephew. The nephew was instructed to run his fingers through the ashes. Afterwards the nephew throws the ashes away and then not only realizes that those ashes was his uncle's gold, but the radiation in the ashes was going to kill him.
Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).