BEWARE THE EYES OF MARCH!

What a pretty girl like Laura Duncan is doing with a toad like Nicholas March is beyond me, but apparently the two have been married for a while. But Laura has fallen for young Johnny Franklin and the jilted March hypnotizes Laura into jumping off a cliff!

In a fit of rage, Johnny confronts March and strangles him to death. But March isn't finished yet; he goes after Johnny next and the result is a classic revenge from the grave story.

"The Eyes of March" (a clever turn of the phrase, "The Ides of March", coincidentally appearing in the March issue) was published in Harvey's TOMB OF TERROR (March 1963). Pencils are by Manny Stallman and inks by John Giunta.

A ROSE IS A ROSE . . . ?

"Roses are red . . . and blood is red . . . and when you hate hard enough you see red, too. Little Tommy got them all mixed up when he heard the blossoms sobbing, he didn't believe . . . a rose is a rose."

And so begins this twisted little tale of a brilliant young boy who was so sensitive he could hear flowers talking. Well, if you've ever wanted to know if plants have feelings, this ought to clear things up. Just don't ask Little Tommy to mow your lawns and trim your hedges!

Al Eadeh (b.1913 - d.2005) is an artist you don't hear too much about, but he was actually quite prolific during the Golden and Silver Ages, and his versatility can be seen in many different types of comics from crime to Westerns to romance. His largest output was with the Simon/Kirby Studio and Marvel/Atlas. Eadeh's style in this story from Harvey's TOMB OF TERROR (July 1953), to me, vaguely reminiscent of Graham Ingles.

DEATH IS THE END RESULT

This is a swipe if there ever was one. "End Result" was illustrated by Bob Powell and appeared in TOMB OF TERROR #14 (Harvey, March 1954). As yet, the writer has not yet been positively identified, although some say it was Powell, who sometimes scripted his own art.

TOMB OF TERROR was a cross-over science-fiction/horror title likely patterned after EC's line of sci-fi comics. In this particular story, any reader of a certain H.G. Wells novel will realize it for what it is. I'll let you be the judge, but it's pretty obvious.

GOING .. GOING .. GONE!

After low-life crook Bull Akers robs a shop and kill the store owner, he's plugged with a shot by a policeman. He stumbles into the office of a neuro surgeon. At first refusing to help him, after hearing of the robbery on the radio, he changes his mind. What follows is a surprising bit of "urban justice".

This shocker is from the pages of Harvey's TOMB OF TERROR #16 (July 1954), the last issue after the Comics Code was instituted. Pencils are by Joe Certa with possible inks by John Giunta.