Mystery Tales #6
"Skull-Face" delivers a chilling early horror tale from 1952, where a scientist's experiment to animate a skeleton for a movie promo spirals into something far more sinister. Written by Stan Lee and brought to life with eerie precision by artist Tony DiPreta, the story unfolds as a chilling twist on publicity gone wrong—leaving only a skeletal killer and a town in denial. The cover by Sol Brodsky and Christopher Rule captures the dread with a haunting, shadowed figure that perfectly sets the tone.
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To publicize a horror movie, a scientist performs an experiment to bring a skeleton to life. Unexpectedly, the experiment works and the skeleton murders both the scientist and the movie's publicist, but no one believes the truth, which they dismiss as a publicity stunt.
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