Twilight Zone Presents "The Last Sixty Seconds"

Perhaps the saddest tragedy in all of comicdom is that the vast majority of Gold Key painted covers remain un-credited and un-indexed. This is heartbreaking, especially once you’ve let your eyes feast on this cover to The Twilight Zone No. 6, February, 1964. Dear artist: if you are out there, you are loved.

At least the Grand Comic Database (GCD) has most of the story art on file. This story of the last minute of a suicide’s life was penciled by Mike Sekowski and inked by Mike Peppe.

Sekowski was a DC man at this point in his career, but he was also a notorious ink-slinger, going where the moonlighting job took him. I really like the way Sekowski handles the body in water; as well as the way he draws the protagonist . . . oops, almost gave it away. You will know the cool panels when you get to them. All scans are from my own comic. Just click on the image to get the big picture.

I throw this next page in as an example of a running feature in Gold Key comics, the “Keys of Knowledge.” Young readers were encouraged to “collect the whole series for useful knowledge.” Well, alright. Was there ever a young reader mesmerized by the plight of turn of the century motorists? Apparently, according to this knowledge key, they got stuck in the mud a lot. All done in glorious black and white, too. Man, you just have to love the effort here to be "good" for kids.