Adventures into Terror #5
In "The Man Who Was Death!", a man grappling with a false diagnosis of terminal illness makes a desperate deal with a murderer to end his life by two o'clock the next day—only to discover he’s actually healthy, leaving him paralyzed by fear as the clock ticks down. Gene Colan’s moody, expressive art brings the psychological tension to life in this chilling 1951 tale from Marvel’s horror anthology. The cover, a striking collage of contributions from Carl Burgos, Joe Maneely, Don Rico, and Basil Wolverton, with inks by Chris Rule and Joe Maneely, captures the story’s grim, suspenseful tone.
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A man who finds out he's terminally ill, pays a seedy murderer to kill him at "no later than two o'clock tomorrow" so he can die quickly (the man being too scared to commit suicide). Afterwards, he finds out he's not terminally ill and will live if he keeps his stress level down. Terrified of being killed by the murderer he hired, his intense fear cause him to die of a heart attack!
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