"The clock strikes death!"  From Hangman Comics, 1942.

From Hangman Comics, 1942.

Beware the witch's cat!  From Spellbound, 1976.  (Courtesy of Archive.org.)

This presumably means that the waiter can tell the diner can't afford to order lobster, but at first glance we thought the waiter took the diner for a lobster, as in "Yes, we serve food to lobster diners."

Guest: "Do you serve lobsters?"

Waiter: "Yes, sir.  What will you have?"

From The Goblin, 1925.

"A spoonful of evil."  From Spellbound, 1977.  (Courtesy of Archive.org.)

If only more magazines offered free mystic sun pendants.  From Spellbound, 1976.  (Courtesy of Archive.org.)

From Spellbound, 1977.  (Courtesy of Archive.org.)  See this remarkable guide to practial magick you can do with a pencil and paper: The Pencil Witch.

From Die Bühne, 1928.

The dog Tige and a sheet ghost: a detail from a Buster Brown comic.

Here's a fun twist on the little birds and stars that orbit one's head after a blow.  This particular blow went so deep, apparently, that the bird got internalized, and its tweet is vocalized by the injured party.  Yet we all know that the little bird is figurative, and the bystander answers the chirping by stating that he hears no bird.  From the Baltimore and Ohio Employees Magazine, 1921.