Marvel Tales #117

In "Terror in the North!" from Marvel Tales #117 (1953), an American hunter dismisses the villagers’ claims of a werewolf, braving the storm to hunt down the beast he believes is responsible. When he awakens to a searing pain and a monstrous reflection in the mirror, his resolve shatters—his own face now twisted with fangs and fury. The story’s chilling twist unfolds in quiet dread, as the line between hunter and hunted blurs beneath the weight of a single, irreversible bite.

In a quiet 1953 tale from *Marvel Tales* #117, a frugal dentist whose refusal to use painkillers haunts his patients finds himself in a far more personal crisis when he collapses after catching a brain surgeon flirting with his wife. When he wakes, he’s strapped to a table—offered a radical, painless cure for his fainting spells, but at a cost he never expected.

In "Uncle Gideon's Gold," a greedy nephew pressures his elderly uncle to reveal the safe's combination, threatening to cast him into the furnace below. When the old man finally yields, the nephew kills him—only to find the safe's contents are not treasure, but molten gold that floods the room.