Mystery Tales #4
In "The Drink of Death!", a desperate criminal named Mickey, fleeing the law, forces an undertaker into helping him vanish—only to end up trapped inside a coffin meant for a corpse. With his friend Eddie in pursuit, Mickey’s escape takes a chilling turn when the hearse carrying him arrives not at a graveyard, but at a crematory. George Roussos handles both pencils and inks for the story’s moody, suspenseful interior art, while Carl Hubbell’s cover captures the eerie tension with a stark, dramatic image.
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Mickey, a criminal on the run from police forces an undertaker to help him escape. With the help of his buddy Eddie, Mickey takes the place of a corpse in a coffin headed to the graveyard. On the way to the graveyard, Eddie gets cut off by a train while following the hearse and arrives too late when he discovers it has arrived at a crematory instead.
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