This cover for a 1959 issue of DC's House of Secrets not only offers up an out-sized pencil as an instrument of ultimate destruction. (How long it takes for a six-foot "pencil of doom" to wear out? How do you sharpen it? With a "Sharpener of Destruction"?)
The cover also seems to suggest that "Koj", the mysterious beastie who is heralded might just perhaps be a relative of Grimace. Yes that Grimace!
I like pencils. They are one of the great inventions of civilization, a device that is difficult to improve upon. I didn't realize they were so potent as this evocative cover suggests. And as for Grimace, well, he's one of a kind as well.
You be the judge.
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