Creepy Vol 1 38

Creepy Vol 1 #38

March, 1971

Cover Artists

Ken Kelly

Publisher

Warren Publishing

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Appearing in "Wooden Cross!"

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Synopsis for "Wooden Cross!"

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A young man is called to a town by his uncle only to find him dead of a 'plague' when he gets there. It ends up that the plague is actually a vampire. The young man suspects the vampire is the head of the town, but it ends up being the son of the town doctor who he manages to kill with a cross after being made a vampire himself.

Appearing in "The Vengeance of the Hanged!"

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Synopsis for "The Vengeance of the Hanged!"

A corrupt judge sentences innocent people to die by hanging, doing so for some just to show his power to an enemy lawyer. One night he has a dream of being pursued by the corpses of the innocent people he's had hanged over the years. During the dream he is hung by them. He is found dead of a heart attack the next day, with rope burns appearing on his neck.

Appearing in "Sticks and Stones to Break Their Bones"

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Synopsis for "Sticks and Stones to Break Their Bones"

A man finds many ancient carvings of people with modern weapons. This causes him to go to the military, telling them that ancient civilizations must have reached modern levels only to be wiped out, forcing civilization to start over. The military doesn't believe him, choosing to focus on their latest weapon... a primitive catapult.

Appearing in "The Way Home!"

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Synopsis for "The Way Home!"

A disoriented man talks to mannequins, sits in a bar occupied by skeletons, and has dreams of going home to see his mother, who is with another boy, and kills her. He sees a black haired woman in a trenchcoat who says she'll bring him home... which ends up being a cemetery.

Appearing in "Sleepwalker!"

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Synopsis for "Sleepwalker!"

A young woman believes herself to be a vampire and attends therapy to cure herself of it, which she believes is successful. The killings continue however. She soon realizes that her husband is the true culprit, who had it blamed on her. Not only that, but he's a ghoul, who makes her his next victim.

Appearing in "Secret of the Haunted Room"

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Synopsis for "Secret of the Haunted Room"

A young man is given a house as part of his inheritance, under the condition that he live there for the rest of his days. The house is haunted however, and he soon meets a young woman inside who claims to be from 1910, not the present year, 1970. It ends up that she's a vampire, and makes him her next victim.

Appearing in "The Cosmic All"

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Synopsis for "The Cosmic All"

Astronauts heading across the universe find a blob like creature on each planet they come to. They finally find a planet with humanoid people who attack them and are killed, leaving behind a message that their death was clean compared to whats going to happen to the astronauts. They decide to sleep there and the next morning two of the astronauts find everyone else reduced to skeletons. They escape, but one of them sends their ship crashing to Earth. Immediately after the flesh falls off their bodies, turning into the blob seen before, known as the 'Cosmic All' that is bringing peace to the universe by turning everyone to blobs.

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