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Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone: Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up? #[nn]
In "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?", a blizzard traps a group of bus passengers in a remote diner, where suspicion swirls after state troopers investigate a mysterious alien landing. As tensions rise and each passenger is questioned, the truth becomes stranger than fiction—especially when one claims to be a Martian, and the counterman has a far more unsettling revelation. Written by Rod Serling and Mark Kneece, with art by Rich Ellis, this chilling tale from the Twilight Zone universe unfolds with eerie precision, blending paranoia and cosmic secrets. The cover, also by Rich Ellis, captures the story’s unsettling mood.
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State troopers investigating an apparent alien landing track the being to a diner where a small group of bus passengers is stranded in a blizzard. Suspicion falls on one after another until they get word that the bus can leave. Before long one of the passengers returns, confessing to the counterman that he is a Martian, and that he has just killed the troopers and the bus passengers in preparation for a Martian invasion. The counterman reveals that he is Venusian, that the Venusians have already colonized the Earth in secret, and that they have destroyed the Martian invasion en route.
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