The colors, Duke, the colors!

Like so, so many Gold Key books, the cover is way better than the story inside, but this entire book had been printed before? Did another of the stories here get the cover then? From 1976, Twilight Zone #71, cover by George Wilson, reprinting 1972's Twilight Zone #45 in its entirety! It could have the same ads, it could have the same staples, I don't know...

And of course, I'm still goddamn looking for TZ #70...Anyway, in "Art for Art's Sake," art by John Celardo; a contractor cuts a deal with a starving artist to provide some murals for his new building: in this case, 'murals' being a psychotronic nightmare on every exposed surface in the joint! The contractor gives the artist the bum's rush, but then the buyer's wife loves it and they're going to pay him double--okay, even in the Twilight Zone, that's never happened. The contractor tries to cut the artist out of the deal, and you know where this is going. Twilight Zone comics have a higher mortality rate than What If? I was flipping through this while watching a Hunter Thompson documentary, and had an inexplicable flashback to a Popsicle ad from '97-98, that I was not positive was actually real. They played this for kids, or cartoon watching twenty-somethings...moreso the latter, I'm guessing.