The complete, original text for this story was run in the debut issue of Harvey Kurtzman’s Help!, cover dated August, 1960.
A most inoperative, deadly life-shattering affliction known as the Fever.Franklin Gibbs and his wife Flora go to Las Vegas because she won a slogan contest.
As they walk, Franklin is given a silver dollar by a drunk man who makes him use it in a different machine that advertises a $10,000 jackpot.
The casino workers watch and talk about him as he constantly plays and ignores his wife's pleas to go to bed.
Flora can neither see nor hear the machine as it backs Franklin up toward the window, until he crashes backwards through it and falls to his death.
The police stand over his body, noting that his wife had stated that he had not slept in 24 hours, and a casino manager comments that he has never seen anyone develop a gambling addiction so quickly and severely.
While Carol Serling was having good luck nearby, he became enslaved by a merciless one-armed bandit, an incident he would turn into one of his first Twilight Zone episodes."