• First Line of Dialogue or Text:Roasted alive... for the third week in a row!

Synopsis:

A Hollywood TV producer is desperate to save his falling horror show and looks for real life witches in Europe to use as a gimmick. In a small village he encounters a group of old ladies trying to kill a young girl and he assumes that she is a witch, but it turns out the husbands of the old ladies are warlocks and kill the producer for interfering.

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• from Tower of Shadows (Marvel, 1969 series) #2 (November 1969)

• First Line of Dialogue or Text:What say we let our somewhat harassed hero narrate this little gem, hmmnn...?

Synopsis:

In the prehistoric past, a mutant caveman is chased by his fellow cavemen through the underground who want to destroy him. He hides behind a waterfall and feeds off of the roaring sound. Eons later when the waterfall dries up, he explodes up into the surface world. In the modern day, a hippie couple stumble upon him. He is now a pulsating mass hiding in an abandoned home in the woods and desperately needs sound to feed on and pursues the couple. Just as he is about to shrivel up and die, the girl opens her mouth....

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• from Tower of Shadows (Marvel, 1969 series) #2 (November 1969)

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• First Line of Dialogue or Text:Take it from old Digger, machines are taking more jobs away from working men every day...

Synopsis:

A miner who leads a group of men in underground tunnelling is worried that automatons will replace workers. When the company sends a robot down to help, he's convinced it's going to take his job. He destroys it but a cave in occurs. He can't be rescued because the robot was sent to dig trapped miners out of caved in mine shafts and he has just destroyed his means of rescue.

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• from Tower of Shadows (Marvel, 1969 series) #2 (November 1969)

• First Line of Dialogue or Text:Careful, Arthur! Don't drop this, you incompetent fool!

Synopsis:

An old scientist is obsessed with creating an elixir that will give him eternal life. He extracts material from a Redwood tree which is known to live for thousands of years to complete the elixir. However his mute assistant kills him and drinks the elixir himself. This causes him to literally turn into a tree man who will live for thousands of years rooted to the ground.

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• from Tower of Shadows (Marvel, 1969 series) #1 (September 1969)

• First Line of Dialogue or Text:So, just settle back on that sarcophagus there and relax...

Synopsis:

An author is writing a book about Hayden Hathaway, a skeptic who has an obsession like madness with debunking mediums. He finally finds a medium that is legit and his madness comes to an end. You see Hathaway is really a ghost and was looking for a medium to help him cross over to the other side.

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• from Tower of Shadows (Marvel, 1969 series) #1 (September 1969)

Synopsis:

A thief forces a shop owner to hide him in a back room, but finds himself opening doors without rest for years.

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• from Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #61 (October 1960)