Crypt of Shadows 1973 #5 - back issue - $14.00

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 its grave and back through the green door. He realizes that he is damned to an eternity of executions.

A man who steals gravestones in order to grind them down and resell them is thwarted when one of the corpses wants it back.

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.

A scientist invents a cobalt bomb that results in monstrous mutations in a few individuals present at the test site. He hunts them down and shoots them, but when he awakens from the night's work and looks in the bathroom mirror, he sees a monstrous visage glaring back at him. He thinks that he must have been affected as well and uses the gun on himself. The shot wakes his son and wife, but the mother tells her boy it was probably a car backfiring and to go back to sleep. The boy asks his mother how dad will take the joke he played taping a monster picture onto his bathroom mirror.

On-sale date from The Comic Reader #97, May 1973.

• The Graveyard Ghoul! - Art credits from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (1 April 2006).
• The Man Who Steals Gravestones! - cover story
• More Mirth-Inducing Memorabilia from Memo-Minded Marvel! (Or: Savage Tales Is Alive and Well and Living in a Suburb Outside Cimmeria!) - Items, obituary for Bill Everett.