Illustrating story "They Couldn't Die!" from Voodoo (Farrell, 1952 series) #13.
Comic Story
Witch or Widow (6 pages)
Synopsis
Eccentric shoe maker Philip Wuxton builds a mansion for his wife in the shape of a shoe, and both were very happy until Philip to mysteriously ill and apparently dies. Two years later, after being a recluse in her shoe home, she suddenly marries the undertaker that buried her husband...and he purportedly dies soon after...a pattern continuing through husband seven. One day, Jerry Mason, Jessica's son, learns the shocking truth.
Genre
Horror-suspense
Characters
Philip Wuxton (shoe maker, death); Cyrus Mason (Jessica's lawyer); Jerry Mason (Cyrus' son, death); un-named undertaker (Jessica's husband, death); five un-named husbands of Jessica Wuxton (all die); Jessica Wuxton (Philip's wife, death)
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