I have to admit, I'm not the biggest fan of post-code 50's Atlas stories. I mean, yeah, they may contain some nice artwork from bullpen legends, but unfortunately most of it tends to feel a bit lightweight, pandering, and unbearably bland / repetitive when it comes to the storytelling. Now, give bad ass Bob Powell a script to bewitch the reader with, and you're talkin' a horse of a whole different color! Take for example this eerie entry via the August 1957 issue of Strange Stories of Suspense #16 (the final issue in this series.) Powell fleshes-out four perfect pages into one heckuva thrilling supernatural quickie-- even reminding me a little bit of Charles Beaumont's masterfully freaky, funeral planet episode, "Elegy", from the first season of The Twilight Zone. A Golden Age Powell tale coming up next too, stay tombed...
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