Marvel Tales #114
"Dial 'Z' for Zombie!" from Marvel Tales #114 (1953) delivers a chilling twist on a classic heist gone wrong, all drawn with sharp, expressive detail by Chuck Winter. The story follows a desperate man whose plan to steal from a gambler backfires in the most unexpected way—when he discovers too late that his target wasn’t who he seemed. The cover, a striking piece by Bill Everett, captures the eerie tension of the tale with its stark, shadowed composition.
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A man gets the idea to rob a gambler by putting sleeping powder in his toothpaste. When he enters the room later that evening the intended victim shoots him. The would-be thief realizes in his final moments that the man had false teeth.
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