STRANGE SUSPENSE STORIES #67 – 12 CENT – BREAK AN EGG – JOE GILL – DICK GIORDANO COVER – 1963

STRANGE SUSPENSE STORIES #67 – 12 CENT COVER PRICE – BREAK AN EGG – JOE GILL – DICK GIORDANO COVER

OCTOBER 1963      

CHARACTERS – MAD SCIENTIST, EXTRATERRESTRIAL INVADERS

STORYLINE – This anthology features six illustrated comic stories and one text-only entry. Break an Egg – The issue’s signature sci-fi story follows an alien invasion where extraterrestrials infiltrate Earth inside ordinary chicken eggs. When a scientist discovers the plot and tries to warn the public, he is written off as insane.

Grandma’s Cookie Jar – A suspenseful mystery/horror short centered around a grandmother’s strange or supernatural cookie jar.

Typical of Charlton Comics’ horror anthologies from this era, these consist of brief, twist-ending supernatural tales.

A mandatory one-page prose story included to satisfy U.S. Postal Service regulations for magazine distribution rates at the time.

PUBLISHER – CHARLTON

WRITER – JOE GILL

INTERIOR ART – BILL MOLNO, CHARLES NICHOLAS, ROCCO MASTROSERIO “ROCKE”

COVER ART – DICK GIORDANO

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