Young Billy waits at the news-stand to buy the first Creepshow comic off the stacks. And there is The Creep waiting to introduce his newest tales of horror.
Times are hard in Dead River.
The local reservation Indians, led by Ben Whitemoon, come to the General Store to ask its kindly proprietors, Ray and Martha Spruce, whether they will accept some of the tribe's precious jewelry as security against their ever increasing debt. That night the couple are viciously attacked and killed by young Sam Whitemoon and two hoodlum cronies, who steal the jewels. The old wooden cigar-store Indian chief 'awakens' and goes after the hoodlums. When Ben Whitemoon returns the following day, the chief has the jewels in one hand and Sam's scalp in the other. They notice something in the water that looks like the black blob of an oil slick, except it's moving towards them very fast.