The communists conduct a secret atomic bomb test in Africa which turns one of the natives who had emerged from a pit-trap facing the blast into a powerful giant ala the Hulk. An American teacher finds him and provides ointment to soothe the pain from the radiation burns and convinces Kraa that not all civilized men are evil. When a giant python attacks the teacher, Kraa has a change of heart and leaps to the man's defense, but is standing too close to the edge of a precipice and Kraa and the snake fall to their doom.
After having escaped death row Billy Lee is still haunted by those he's killed. Trying to escape them leads to Billy's death right at the time he was sentenced.
Notes
Dead Ringer! was the first original, non-reprint story published in Where Monsters Dwell.
