Crypt of Shadows #14
In "The Terror That Creeps," three men attempt to prank an old man by feeding him fake alien radio signals, but their game takes a chilling turn when a mysterious force disrupts their transmission. When they finally break into his home, they find only a single message on a pad: "They have come for me at last!" Written and illustrated entirely by Bill Everett, this eerie 1974 tale from Marvel delivers a haunting blend of paranoia and the unknown. The cover, by Larry Lieber and Tom Palmer, captures the creeping dread with a stark, unsettling image.
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Three men think they are playing a trick on an old man by broadcasting radio messages that he picks up and believes to be from another planet. They try to send him another message, but something blocks the transmission, and when they break down his door he is missing with only a message pad on the table that says "They have come for me at last!"
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