Weird Wonder Tales #2
In "Crack-Up!", a carnival owner stumbles upon a bizarre alien plot: tiny extraterrestrials are sabotaging Earth's crops to shrink humanity, ensuring their dominance in an upcoming invasion. Using quick thinking and a show of theatrical flair, he tricks them into believing the food only produces children—while secretly displaying his circus giant as proof—making them abandon their plan. Paul Reinman handles both pencils and inks for the story, while Gil Kane and Frank Giacoia bring the cover to life. A 20-cent comic from 1974, it’s a quirky, clever tale of deception and alien mischief.
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A carnival owner comes across small aliens who are spraying crops so that humans who eat the food will produce midgets so they won't have a size advantage when they invade, but he fools them into leaving Earth by claiming that the food is only producing small children ten percent of the time and producing giants the rest. He displays his circus giant to them as proof and they buy into his lie and leave.
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