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Issue Details

Issue #137
Published September 1963
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing George Kashdan
Notes Additional indexing info from Donald Dale Milne.

Cover Details - "Tunnel to Disaster!"

Characters Mike Hunter; unnamed monsters
Genre adventure; science fiction; monsters; occult
Pencils Dick Dillin
Inks Sheldon Moldoff

8 page story "The Girl From Two Worlds"

Characters Jack Ward; Ellen Ward; unnamed cousin of Ellen Ward and his gang
Synopsis Ellen Ward's cousin concocts an elaborate scheme posing as aliens in an attempt to claim her inheritance from a deceased uncle, but Jack Ward figures out the hoax and captures Ellen's cousin and his gang.
Genre adventure
Pencils Mort Meskin
Inks George Roussos

9 page story "Tunnel to Disaster!"

Characters Mike Hunter; Eddie Hunter; employees of Hunter Brothers Construction; Emile LaTour (as monster); employees of Emile LaTour (as monsters); French government official and police
Synopsis Mike and Eddie Hunter's construction company is hired to bore a road tunnel through Giant's Tooth, a mountain in the French Alps. As they complete the tunnel they are attacked by beasts, who turn out to be Emile LaTour's tunnel crew from a century before. The beasts save the Hunters' crew from being transformed into beasts and are retrapped in a tunnel cave-in.
Genre science fiction; monsters
Pencils Howard Sherman
Inks Howard Sherman

Half page Moolah the Mystic filler "untitled"

Characters Moolah The Mystic; hotel bellhop
Synopsis Moolah decides he cannot sleep on a normal bed in a hotel he is staying at, so he has room service deliver a hammer and he rebuilds the bed as a bed of nails.
Genre gag
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff

1 page text article "The Amazing Modern Ancients"

Synopsis Information about ancient technological feats, including tunnels, cities, rock paintings and more.
Genre fact
Letters typeset

8 page story "The Gift of -- Doom"

Characters Roger Steele; unnamed old man; Sam Stevens; Bobo Tillison (death)
Synopsis Roger Steele is given a diamond by an unnamed man and told it has a curse that may doom him. He is unable to throw it away without it returning but it is finally stolen and the thief is killed by it.
Genre occult
Pencils George Roussos
Inks George Roussos
Reprinted in House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #175; in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #1