Adventures into Weird Worlds #24
In "The One Who Was Dead," a desperate scientist on a failing rocket mission faces a chilling choice: use a radical weight-reduction device to save the crew, but at a terrifying cost. Chuck Winter’s stark, expressive art brings the claustrophobic tension to life, while Carl Burgos and Bill Everett’s cover captures the story’s eerie, otherworldly dread. A 10-cent comic from 1953, it’s a gripping early example of science fiction’s darker side.
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A scientist aboard a rocket without enough fuel to reach Earth wants to use a device to reduce the weight of the crew by half. When he tests it on a monkey, it shrinks the monkey to half-size, but when he tries it out on himself it cuts him in half.
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