Where Monsters Dwell #19
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Insect Man," Stan Lee and Steve Ditko deliver a chilling tale of greed and spectral justice, where a prince's treachery is undone by the lingering spirit of a long-dead king. The haunting power of a portrait and ghostly hands set the stage for a chilling confrontation, all rendered in Ditko’s signature eerie style. The cover by Gil Kane and John Romita adds a striking, sinister edge to this 1973 Marvel classic.
In a stark experiment beneath the surface, a soldier is sealed in a capsule to endure prolonged isolation, only to be tormented by a telepathic insect that preys on his mind. When the mission ends, authorities dismiss his ordeal as psychological strain—yet a fragment of the creature remains embedded in the pod, a silent witness to what truly happened.
In the heart of a forgotten clockroom, King Linus faces a chilling threat as the assassin Claudius Zemu closes in—only to be frozen mid-motion, transformed into another silent figure on the king’s prized timepiece. With time itself seeming to twist around him, the king must unravel the mystery of the ticking clocks before the next chime.
In "Long Live the King!", a scheming prince marries a widowed queen, but his ambition turns deadly when he attempts to exploit her sleepwalking. As shadows stir within the castle, the portrait of her late husband speaks, and spectral hands rise to protect her—turning the prince’s plot against him.
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