Mysterious Adventures #3

In "Curse of the Salem Queen!", a 1951 tale from Mysterious Adventures #3, a bitter rivalry between two coalminers, Tom and Matty, escalates when both vie for the affection of Ruth. After Tom leaves Matty for dead in an abandoned mine shaft, fate takes a grim turn when Tom himself is trapped in a cave-in and stumbles upon Matty’s skeletal remains—now seemingly bound to haunt him as rats close in. The story unfolds with a chilling sense of dread, drawn in stark, expressive lines by Stan Ash and Vince Napoli, with typeset lettering adding to the period’s atmospheric tension.