Adventures into Terror Vol 1 17

Adventures into Terror Vol 1 #17 Published March, 1953 Editor-in-Chief Stan Lee Cover Artist Sam Kweskin Carl Burgos Stan Goldberg "I Die Too Often" Writer Carl Wessler Penciler Gil Kane Inker Gil Kane Letterer Joe Letterese Editor Stan Lee "The Window" Letterer Typeset Editor Stan Lee "The Vandals!" Writer Carl Wessler Penciler Joe Sinnott Inker Joe Sinnott Letterer Joe Letterese Editor Stan Lee "Casper's Boss!" Penciler Ken Landau Inker Ken Landau Letterer Sam Rosen Editor Stan Lee "They Don't Complain" Penciler Sam Kweskin Inker Sam Kweskin Editor Stan Lee "Red As a Lobster" Penciler Jim Mooney Inker Jim Mooney Editor Stan Lee Previous Issue Next Issue Adventures into Terror #16 Adventures into Terror #18

Appearing in "I Die Too Often"

Featured Characters:

• Thomas Gordon (Death)

Supporting Characters:

• Hutch

Antagonists:

• Warden Paul Marsh

Other Characters:

• Mike Colvin (Mentioned) (Deceased)
• Corrections Officer Haggerty

Races and Species:

• Humans
• Ghosts

Locations:

• Earth
  • Prison (Unnamed)
  • Cemetery (Unnamed)
    
    

Synopsis for "I Die Too Often"

A convicted killer has a repeating dream of dying in the electric chair. Finally, the event is real and he is relieved the dreams have stopped in the peace of death... until he hears the warden summon his ghost from it's grave and back through the green door. He realizes that he is damned to an eternity of executions.

Appearing in "The Window"

Featured Characters:

• Howard Stevens

Races and Species:

• Humans
  
  

Synopsis for "The Window"

A lawyer's hotel window looks out on an alien landscape, allowing him to discover the Martian plan to conquer Earth.

Appearing in "The Vandals!"

Featured Characters:

• Joe (Only appearance; dies)
• Nick (Only appearance; dies)
• Burt (Only appearance; dies)
• Frankie (Only appearance; dies)

Antagonists:

• Hydra Idol

Races and Species:

• Humans

Locations:

• Earth
  • Museum (Unnamed)
    
    

Synopsis for "The Vandals!"

When four vandals enter a museum at night to cut off the gold heads from a hydra idol, they end with their heads placed upon the evil idol.

Appearing in "Casper's Boss!"

Featured Characters:

• Casper

Supporting Characters:

• Martha (Only appearance; dies)

Antagonists:

• Mr. Tuft (Apparent death)

Races and Species:

• Humans

Locations:

• Earthspace
  • Earth
• Heaven (Invoked)
  
  

Synopsis for "Casper's Boss!"

When his smoker boss doesn't lend him the money he needs for his wife's operation and she dies, a man ties the smoker up in a shed filled with explosives.

Appearing in "They Don't Complain"

Featured Characters:

• Mr. Higgenbotham (Only appearance; dies)

Supporting Characters:

• Doctor (Unnamed)

Other Characters:

• Nurse (Unnamed)
• Orderly (Unnamed)

Races and Species:

• Humans

Locations:

• Earth
  • Hospital (Unnamed)
    
    

Synopsis for "They Don't Complain"

This story postulates that dead people remain aware and sensate during their autopsies.

Appearing in "Red As a Lobster"

Featured Characters:

• Paul Marno (Only appearance; dies)

Supporting Characters:

• Doris
• Jim

Antagonists:

• Lobsters

Races and Species:

• Humans
• Lobsters
• Sharks (Vision)
• Birds

Locations:

• Earth
  • Pacific Ocean
  • United States of America
    • California

Vehicles:

• Paul Marno's Yacht
  
  

Synopsis for "Red As a Lobster"

Lobsters get their revenge on a diver who likes to boil them alive in order to observe their suffering by herding him into a hot-spring.

Notes

• "I Die Too Often" is reprinted in Crypt of Shadows #5.
• "They Don't Complain" is reprinted in Frankenstein #14.
• "Red As a Lobster" is reprinted in Crypt of Shadows #5.

See Also

• 1 Image(s) from Adventures into Terror Vol 1 17
• 2 Reprints of Adventures into Terror Vol 1 17

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