House of Mystery #26
In "The Man with the Magic Ears!", pioneering engineer Alfred Jarvis harnesses a strange machine that lets him hear the voices of plants— their cries, their sobs, their final sighs. As he becomes obsessed with protecting flora from human destruction, his actions grow more extreme, turning him into a figure of suspicion and fear. Curt Swan's art, inked by Ray Burnley, brings a haunting, grounded realism to this eerie 1954 tale, while Ruben Moreira's cover captures the story's unsettling mood with striking detail.
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Pioneering engineer Alfred Jarvis builds a machine with which he can hear the sounds plants make. Their cries, their sobs, their dying sighs. He goes on a rampage to stop people from cutting flowers, but is suspected to be a madman.
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