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You're trapped, Dirk London! The police are closing in! You have to take that room in that dingy hotel...the room with...THE LOCKED DOOR!

—From the splash page of "The Locked Door"

Appearing in "The Bewitched Bike!"

Featured Characters:

  • Spider Becco (First appearance; dies)

Supporting Characters:

  • Pete
  • Tellif Kelk (First appearance)

Other Characters:

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Locations:

Vehicles:

  • Bicycle Time Machine

Synopsis for "The Bewitched Bike!"

A crook steals a bike from a time-traveler that has come from the year 1992, forty years in the future. He robs a bank and pedals into the future but is recognized anyway and shot as he attempts to flee. His body is deposited in 1952 minus the bike and the police wonder which one of them got him that caused the wound on the dead man's forehead does not appear to have been made by a .38.

Appearing in "Death Waits Within!"

Featured Characters:

  • Mr. Kumel
  • Mrs. Kumel

Supporting Characters:

  • Mr. Kumel and Mrs. Kumel's Son (First appearance; dies)

Other Characters:

  • Unnamed Victim (First appearance; dies)
  • Unnamed Mayor

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Synopsis for "Death Waits Within!"

An elderly couple that run an inn in Europe murder their guests in order to rob them and send the money to their son in America. They do not recognize their final victim as their son and he does not tell them because he wanted to surprise them with his visit.

Appearing in "The Locked Door!"

Featured Characters:

  • Dirk London (First appearance)

Supporting Characters:

  • Unnamed Hotel Clerk (First appearance; dies)

Antagonists:

  • Unidentified Police Department
    • Numerous unnamed police officers

Races and Species:

Locations:

Synopsis for "The Locked Door!"

Exhausted after being chased by the cops, Dirk London ducks into an old hotel and rents a room. Looking behind a curtain, he discovers a locked door, and he gradually becomes obsessed with figuring out what is behind it. Meanwhile, the cops come to the hotel in search of London, and the manager goes to the fugitive's room to bring him downstairs. When the manager arrives, London strangles him and steals the key to the door, but when he opens it he finds nothing but a solid wall!

Appearing in "Out of the Jungle"

Featured Characters:

  • Johnny (First appearance)

Supporting Characters:

  • Anthony "Tony" Jones (First appearance)

Other Characters:

  • Charlie (Butler) (First appearance)
  • Tony's Great Grandfather (Mentioned) (Deceased)
  • Mrs. Jones (Mentioned)
  • Tony's Son (Mentioned)
  • Tarzan (Mentioned)
  • Tony's Great-Great Uncle (Mentioned) (Deceased)
  • Tony's Great Grandmother (Mentioned) (Deceased)
  • Tony's Great-Great Aunt (Mentioned) (Deceased)
  • Tony's Father (Mentioned)
  • Tony's Uncle (Mentioned)
  • Tony's Brother (Mentioned)

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Synopsis for "Out of the Jungle"

A man witnessing an ice delivery questions the drivers ape-like appearance. Curiosity gets the better of him and the man named Johnny goes for a ride with the driver and asks him directly. Although Johnny expects a violent rebuttal the driver simply confirms his suspicions. He introduces himself as Tony Jones and he explains that his great-grandfather left the jungles with his brother and their mates. Making their way to out of the jungles to South America and into Mexico before settling into the United States southwest. Eventually his father and his uncle moved east ward. Tony settled in New York while his brother lives in New Jersey and his uncle lives in Connecticut.

Johnny offers to make them both rich by sponsoring him in a wrestling match by Tony refuses. Knowing that it would only put him, his wife, his son, and all other gorillas in danger if he was ever found out. Tony then drops off Johnny leaving Johnny with a million questions and suspicions of who else could be gorillas without him knowing.

Appearing in "I'm Drowning!"

Featured Characters:

  • Pete Norris (First appearance; dies)

Supporting Characters:

  • Corrections Officers
    • Joe

Antagonists:

  • Death (Vision or hallucination)

Other Characters:

  • Warden (Mentioned)
  • Dutch Boy (Mentioned in narration or thoughts)

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Synopsis for "I'm Drowning!"

A convict attempts to avoid the electric chair and when flood waters rise, giving him the diversion he needs to escape from his cell, he finds himself in a small enclosure that begins to leak from the rising water. He climbs up to plug the leak with his finger, but it turns out that the water is flowing through a live electric socket.

Appearing in "Hiding Place"

Featured Characters:

  • George (First appearance)

Supporting Characters:

  • George and Harold's Mother (First appearance)

Antagonists:

  • Harold (First appearance; dies)

Races and Species:

Locations:

Synopsis for "Hiding Place"

Harold, a "simple-minded boy," keeps several deadly snakes and spiders as pets, to the annoyance of his adult brother George. Harold is bitten by one of his own black widow spiders, but the doctors discover that he has a natural immunity to insect poisons. Listening as Harold talks to himself, George learns that Harold has a secret hiding place for his pets. George wants to kill the deadly insects, but he cannot find the hiding place, and he is soon tormented by dreams of menacing spiders. As his anger towards his brother increases, George finally pushes Harold out a window. He successfully covers up his crime, and decides to begin sleeping in Harold's bed. Unfortunately, that night he makes a startling discovery...the bed itself was Harold's hiding place!

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Trivia

  • This issue was not renewed for copyright after 28 years, effectively making its debut stories and characters public domain under United States law.

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