Vault of Evil 1973 #6 - back issue - $6.00
A cheap department store owner's toy demonstrator quits after receiving a Christmas bonus of only one dime, and so the owner attempts to save money by shortening the help wanted ad to "Demon. Wanted." He gets what he advertises for.
A man wants to go to Jivaro country so he can acquire a shrunken head for his collection of horror memorabilia but is afraid of having his head shrunk, so he hires a scientist to treat his head so that it is unshrinkable.
A plastic surgeon wants a man's wife so knocks him out and exchanges faces with him. The man knows that his wife would rather shoot him instead, so when she enters the room he pretends to be the surgeon and claims that he couldn't go through with the plan. She pulls out a gun and murders the surgeon and when she hands her husband the gun to dispose of, he shoots her.
A native warns a pearl diver not to dive by night so as to have enough light to see where to avoid the man-eating clams, but he doesn't listen.
On-sale date from The Comic Reader #98, June 1973.
- The Thing at the Window! - Cover pencil and cover ink credits from Nick Caputo (April 1, 2006). Crespi credit per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited John Costanza.
- Help Wanted! - cover story
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