Due to a lethal epidemic, a well-off guy named "Donald" quarantines in his home...
...but it's not 2020!
It's "present day" in this never-reprinted story from Atlas' Adventures into Weird Worlds #4 (1952)!
If the story seems a bit...familiar...it's because it's an unattributed retelling of Edgar Allen Poe's classic chiller "Masque of the Red Death"!
Can we blame artist Bill Everett whose beautifully-rendered art depicts the tale?
There's no attribution to the writer...who could be Everett himself!
He occasionally wrote his own stories.
Or was it one of the other writers who worked for Atlas, usually without credit!
We'll never know...
Note: After Atlas became Marvel, they revived horror comics at the end of the Silver Age.
Writer Roy Thomas and artist Don Heck did their own "present day" version of Poe's scary short story (with attribution) as you can see HERE!
Note: After Atlas became Marvel, they revived horror comics at the end of the Silver Age.
Writer Roy Thomas and artist Don Heck did their own "present day" version of Poe's scary short story (with attribution) as you can see HERE!
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