Weird Science #18
In "Mars Is Heaven!", a lone electrical engineer stumbles upon a mysterious metal object inside a crashed flying saucer, bringing it back to his station to uncover its secrets. What begins as a scientific curiosity quickly turns unsettling when the object reacts with a scream—revealing it's not just alive, but something far stranger than he could have imagined. Written by Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein, with art by Joe Orlando and colors by Marie Severin, this chilling tale from 1953 is a standout in EC's classic horror anthology series, with a cover by Wally Wood that captures the story’s eerie tension.
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An electrical engineer finds a strange metal object in a empty flying saucer and takes it back to his station to disassemble it and find out what makes it tick. When it screams in pain, he realizes it's alive. Another alien from the saucer (a living robot) shows up and disassembles the engineer to find out what makes humans tick.
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