Tales of the Unexpected #12
In "The Four Threads of Doom," a 1957 issue of Tales of the Unexpected, the cunning Wygand Cornish orchestrates a chilling scam involving fake animal deaths and lifelike statues—until a single flawed detail exposes his scheme. Penciled and inked by Mort Meskin, the story unfolds with a chilling precision that makes every twist feel earned. The cover, by Bill Ely, captures the eerie tension of the tale in bold, striking lines.
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Wygand Cornish fakes the deaths of valuable animals, creates statues of the animals for their owners, then replaces the statues with the real things in order to collect money from the grateful owners. But his plot is discovered when he makes a statue not quite as accurate as it needed to be.
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