Hot on the heels of last week's post is this, another tale of marital strife, with yet another milquetoast, wife-hating husband (appropriately named Henry Meeks) who hatches a plan to end his spouse's constant nagging. The ending is heavy with the kind of irony we see often in horror comics from the 50's. "Television Ghost.." is from Stanley Morse's first issue of MISTER MYSTERY (September 1951).
The person behind the "cartoony" Kurtzman-esque art has yet to be positively identified, but there are several interesting possibilities that have been tossed around:
- One source claims the artist is Charles Stern, who was a former roommate of Kurtzman's.
- Another source claims that the artist is Ross Andru.
- Still another claims the art is actually by Kurtzman himself and the story is referenced from "The Mysterious Ray From Another Dimension" (misidentified as "The Mysterious Ray From Another Planet" at the GCD) in EC's WEIRD FANTASY #16 (November-December 1950) and reprinted in Russ Cochran's WEIRD FANTASY #4 (July 1993). If so, then this could be cited as a "lost Kurtzman story".
After looking at a few more stories from MISTER MYSTERY that have been identified as by Stern (without any dispute), I'm putting my money on him under Kurtzman's influence.
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