House of Mystery #18
In "Dance of Doom!", Sam Larkin's scheme to cheat the odds using a stolen scientist's mind backfires in a chilling twist. Howard Sherman's art brings a tense, eerie atmosphere to a tale where a criminal's greed meets a vengeful mind trapped in machinery. The cover by Ruben Moreira captures the story's sinister mood with a striking, shadowed image of a man caught in a web of fate.
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Sam Larkin poisons professor Hartford and hooks the scientist’s brain to a mechanical thinking machine to calculate gambling odds. Larkin wins at roulette and boxing bets. When he takes every last penny to the horse races, he is taught a lesson: Hartford is still alive and rigged all his winnings to ruin his criminal assistant.
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