Nightmare #2
"Children Of The Cold Gods!" delivers a chilling sci-fi horror tale from 1971, where a government scientist’s cryogenic experiments go awry when temperatures plummet below absolute zero—unleashing otherworldly entities from an icy dimension. These beings reassemble shattered frozen bodies into grotesque, invulnerable monsters to conquer Earth, forcing the scientist to fight back by manipulating heat to trap the invaders in eternal ice. Ross Andru and Mike Esposito co-write and co-illustrate this eerie, atmospheric story, with Boris Vallejo’s haunting cover capturing the frozen terror of the invasion.
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A scientist working for the government is devising a way to keep bodies cryogenically frozen to endure space travel. One day the temperatures have dropped below absolute zero causing the bodies that are frozen to break apart. It is then revealed that beings from an icy dimension have entered our universe and caused the subfreezing temperatures. They then reassemble all the broken bodies and turn them into misshapen invulnerable monsters to help them conquer our dimension. The scientist is able to increase the temperature to the point where the misshapen monsters become perpetually frozen.
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