Sunday, January 11, 2026

Come Share My Coffin Tomb!

Our month of dueling Two-For-One Fear Features continues with a petrifyin' pair of terror tales that are really asking a lot from you, dear readers! Yes, come along with us now as we attempt to make some rotten room for a couple of certifiably creepy, cramped companion classics! And Pete Tumlinson kicks it off with an ever familiar, eerie escape trick that is most certainly doomed to backfire every time, guaranteed! From the May 1954 issue of Strange Tales #28, plus a special paralyzin' applause for that superbly scary cover design by Harry Anderson! Then it's Mort Meskin's turn to amp up the mausoleum madness with an apparently "true" crime case from the September - October 1951 issue of Headline Comics #49, via Prize Comics. Yep, THOIA is unloading a hot, double dose of COME atcha this time around-- better bring some Kleenex! Wait, what? They're both tear-jerkers, I meant...


2 comments:

Mr. Karswell said...

Also, if you're singing "Come Share My Coffin, Come Share My Tomb!" to the tune of Come Sail Away by Styx, then yes, me and you can be best friends for all eternity...

Nequam said...

I can't shake the feeling that in the second story Freya and Necrota were originally intended to be black. Any idea if that's the case?