Number 2012: Former EC artists’ “true” ghost stories

Ten years after the end of EC Comics, three of the artists closely associated with EC had stories published in Gold Key’s Ripley’s Believe It Or Not True Ghost Stories #1 (1965). George Evans is credited with “The Mummy’s Hand,” Wallace Wood with “The Ghost Ship,” and Al Williamson with “The Flaming Scar.”

That word “true” shows up in the title, but proving any of these stories to be true would be impossible, except for the verifiable Iroquois Theater fire in Chicago, 1903, which claimed over 600 lives, or the sinking of the Titanic. You think a mummy’s hand caused a curse? You think the son of a sea captain found his father’s ghost ship, 10 years lost, floating full-masted with canvas in perfect condition? You think a man avoided death by avoiding a man with a flaming scar?

I don’t believe in ghosts, or at least I don’t now...when at some point I have passed over into the great unknown I’ll attempt to come back and haunt you readers. Believe it or not!

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