Marvel Tales #153
In "They Prowl on Earth!", a desperate assistant's scheme to sell a professor's invisibility potion backfires in the most literal way possible. As he races along a dark road, convinced he's invisible after a splash of formula, he doesn't realize his friends were ignoring him not because of his condition—but because they never liked him to begin with. Robert Q. Sale handles both pencils and inks for the story, while Bill Everett delivers the eerie cover art. A 10-cent comic from 1956, this issue blends early sci-fi suspense with a twist that’s as chilling in its irony as it is in its timing.
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A professor's assistant arranges an accident for his employer in order to sell his invisibility potion to a foreign power. He drives to his buddies to announce the professor's death but they ignore him, and he thinks he must be invisible because he spilled a bit of formula on himself. He rushes back along the bad road to the lab and has a fatal accident. What he doesn't know is that his buddies really don't like him much and were ignoring him on purpose to teach him a lesson in manners and that the professor's formula didn't really work.
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