Vault of Evil #13
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Heat's On," a bizarre postal anomaly sends shrunken people tumbling through the mail—only to grow to full size upon delivery. Written by Paul S. Newman and illustrated by Robert McCarty, this 1974 Marvel mystery reveals a Martian entrepreneur using the post office to undercut Earth’s air and rail travel. The cover by Larry Lieber and Vince Colletta captures the absurdity perfectly, a 25-cent comic full of outlandish charm.
In "The Heat's On," Rock Zucco and Gertie Zucco are aboard a ship where tension simmers beneath the surface, and the crew—Crawford, Sam, and others—find themselves caught in a chilling web of deception and dread. When a mysterious mirror begins to distort reality, the line between the living and the damned blurs, and the captain’s past sins rise to claim him.
In "Contents: One Human!" from Vault of Evil #13, a curious postal anomaly draws attention to mysterious packages that grow from tiny, shrunken forms into full-sized people once delivered. The Post Office scrambles to uncover the source of the phenomenon, uncovering a clever Martian entrepreneur using the mail system to challenge Earth’s traditional transport industries.
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