Number 2593: A key no longer to own, here in the Twilight Zone

Love my peers in the leisurely ’50s and early ’60s, I watched tv, every thing every person else watched. We watched Alfred Hitchcock Items, Thriller, One Step Beyond, Outer Limits, and of course The Twilight Zone. Even if one had no longer the least bit watched the latter, this present day all of us know that the level to’s title has taken on a which suggests as portion of our speech, “twilight zone” skill to me an match that has a level of strangeness, no longer without divulge understood. Other definitions would per chance well goal fluctuate, nonetheless of us realize it skill something mysterious as soon as they hear the phrase.

There used to be nothing contemporary about such tales with O’Henry-style endings, nonetheless the musical theme and host Rod Serling’s dramatic openings to the the tales own stayed in the custom for decades now…60 years no longer decrease than.

After I saw a Twilight Zone comic book I snapped it up. I showed this account from the Gold Key Twilight Zone #4 (1963) in 2007. It’s drawn by Alex Toth, and its ending fits into those tales loved by the followers of the Twilight Zone and the genre.