THIS ONE'LL FLOOR YOU!

Here's another twisted tale from TORMENTED #2 (Sterling, September 1954). It seems apartment building janitor Cyrus Madden is a bit obsessed with cleanliness and his landlady has scolded him for chastising her tenants for mussing up his floors. There's no love lost between them and Madden has had enough, killing her with a knock on the head with a shovel. Madden's conscience gets the better of him and he ends up a victim of his own fixation.

The art is by Mike Roy.

HEADLESS AND LOVING IT

Mrs. Van Dell is the financial sponsor of Leopold, a very talented ceramic artist who is also very insane. She rejects everything he makes because it is not "lifelike" enough. Leopold finally develops a technique that he's certain she'll lose her head over in this wicked little tale called "Design for Death" from TORMENTED #2 (Sterling, September 1954), published just before the release of the Comics Code Authority.

The prolific pulp and comic book artist Bill Ely illustrated the story. Ely worked in the comics industry from the 1930's into the 1960's for publishers such as DC, Dell, Charlton, Fiction House, Marvel, Ziff-Davis and others.