Where Monsters Dwell #36
In "The Missing Link!", a brilliant but cautious scientist—driven by his parents' bitter struggles with poverty—finally achieves wealth through his groundbreaking matter duplicator. But when the woman he loves steps into the machine, his dream of a perfect future fractures into two versions of her, each claiming to be the real one. With art by John Tartaglione and a cover by Ron Wilson and Al Milgrom, this 1975 Marvel classic explores love, identity, and the unintended consequences of scientific ambition—all for the price of a 25-cent comic.
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A scientist puts off marrying until he is wealthy because he wants to avoid the mistake of his parents always arguing since they were poor. He becomes wealthy by inventing a matter duplicator device. When the girl he wishes to marry steps in front of the device, there are now two of them, arguing over which one of them gets to marry him.
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