| Synopsis
| - A pair of grave robbers find that they have gotten more than they bargain for when they happen to be trying to loot the very grave yard that the Zombie happens to be staying. The zombie then attacks them before they can defile any other graves. Killing one of the robbers, the Zombie sends the other would-be grave robber fleeing. The Zombie then has a flash of memory about his life before becoming a zombie, and has a brief flash that Voodoo was the cause of his current state, and rationalizes that it would be voodoo that could free him. Breaking loose of the cemetary gates, the Zombie wanders into New Orleans where Mardi Gras is well underway. As the grave robber reports his failure to his employer he is shot in cold blood and his body is ordered to be dumped in a river.
Meanwhile, the Zombie has wandered to a boat headed for Haiti and secrest himself into the cargo hold, completely unaware that his own daughter is boarding the same ship in search for clues behind her fathers disappearance, believing that Voodoo had some central part in her fathers disappearance. Arriving in Port-Au Prince, Haiti, Donna Garth departs the ship to meet up with her fathers friend Anton Carter, she misses the Zombie disembarking from the ship, sending everyone witness to it's arrival to flee in horror.
Meeting with Carter, Donna is unaware that she is being watched by a man in the employ of a Professor Rickard, this man named Hackman believes that she would be perfect for his bosses experiments. Returning to Rickard's lab, he arrives just in time to see Rickard test his latest batch of serium on a local woman, turning her into a giant spider-creature, however the serum proves unstable and the horror quickly dies. While back at the home of Anton Carter, Donna gives him a photograph of an amulette of Damballa, knowing it had something to do with her fathers disapperance. Carter tells her he will study it and get back to her. After she leaves, he admits to his servant that he knew what the amulet was the whole time and wanted to spare her the horror of knowing that her father could possibly be a zombie. Going outside, Carter is confronted by the Zombie who struggles to introduce itself as Simon Garth, verifying to Carter's horror, that Garth is indeed a zombie.
This story is continued on page 63 of this same issue...
- In old England, a hunch backed grave robber named Grimm makes his living digging up corpses and selling them to doctors to experiment on illegally. When the doctors are finsihed they have Grimm dispose of the bodies. In stead of putting them back in their graves Grimm simply tosses them in the river. One night however, the offended dead rise from their watery graves to get revenge against him, frightening him to death. When a new grave robber beings working for their doctors, his first dig is ironically Grimm himself.
- Story reprinted from Menace #5
- Words of praise about the late Bill Everett
- Hunk Gillem returns home after a night of drinking only to be plagued by nightmares of being chased by the corpse of Tom Britton, a man that he had murdered. The next day he tells the bar tender of his night terrors, and the bar man offers him a elixer that will end his bad dreams forever. That night Hunk has what he believes to be another nightmare where he is chased by the corpse of Tom Britton, this time when zombie chases him to Britton's grave, the creature tosses acid in his face. Waking up he goes to the bar with a gun, intending to shoot the bartender. However, when he arrives, he realizes that it wasn't a dream at all and his skin has been melted off his face, and that the bartender is really the devil.
- When Della's twin sister Senta choked to death on a bone from a meal meant for her, she is mortified in spite of the comforts of her man Geoffrey. After her guests leave she finds trouble sleeping and takes some sleeping pills. When the morticians come to take her sisters body away, they mistake Della for Senta and put her in the coffin and burry her in the cemetary. She wakes to find that she has been burried alive and begins to panic, however she realizes that one of the morticians lost a screw driver, giving her a faint hope that she can get herself out of the coffin.
Meanwhile, Geoffrey returns to Della's home and is horrified to find that Della was taken away and that her dead sister was left behind. Rushing to the cemetary he arrives just to see some grave robbers who had uncovered Della's grave and are horrified to find the still living Della springing out of the coffin begging for help, causing them to flee the scene.
After everything is straightened out, Della returns home and tries to sleep again, however when she awakens she is horrified to find that she has been burried in the coffin once more!
- Continued from page 1..... Anton Carter, agreeing to free Simon Garth from the Voodoo curse he is trapped in, takes Garth to a cave where he tells the tormented man to stay while he tries to find a way to free him. Meanwhile, Hackman breaks into the places where Donna Garth is staying and kidnaps her for his master Professor Rickard's experiments. There she is injected with his serum, changing her into a giant spider creature.
Instead of expiring like his previous attempts, this creature attacks and kills both Hackman and Professor Rickard and then goes out seeking fresh victims. It's presence is felt by the Zombie who goes out and is attacked by the creature. The two fight, however the Zombie is able to over power it and beat it into submission. With the creature knocked out, the Zombie loses the urge to fight and returns to his cave. Donna then suddenly reverts back to her human form with only a vague memory of what hapepned. Rushing back to Anton's home, she tells him of the dream she had and is glad the "nightmare" is over, completely unaware that she had faced her father in battle.
- A preview and introduction to Brother Voodoo, who at the time was appearing in the pages of Strange Tales.
- On a rubber plantation in Haiti, Raoul Jordan, the plantation owner's son goes after a baseball that was knocked into the nearby jungle. Looking for his ball he is shocked to have stumbled upon a Voodoo cerimony. When the practitioners try to silence the boy, he manages to get away fleeing out into the street where he is struck by a drunk driver, who flees the scene.
In the hospital it's diagnosed that the boy is paralyzed and will be unable to use his arms and legs. His father ends up hiring a Voodoo practitioner who ultimately casts a spell to heal the boy, however it strikes the hit-and-run driver with the boys affliction, a poetic turn of event to this tragedy.
- An article about the origins and lore of Voodoo, taking a particular focus on zombies.
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