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Fantastic Adventures #16
"Hexes, Causes and Curses?" follows artist Mike Brant and his wife Sheila in their new mountain home, where Sheila becomes convinced she has been hexed after experiencing a series of mishaps. When Mike dismisses her fears as imagination, a neighbor woman named Old Granny Suggs claims to be a purveyor of bad luck and offers to cast a spell on Sheila's eyes so she cannot see. Mike's friend Finnegan arrives to help, and the two men must contend with both Sheila's superstitious panic and a group of Communist soldiers who have infiltrated the area. The story concludes with Finnegan and Mike successfully fending off the enemy combatants while reassuring each other about the absurdity of the hexing claims.