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Astounding Stories#169
Cover: Ogden Whitney & Ogden Whitney
Astounding Stories #169
“Mystery Island!”
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Full credits
writer Carl Wessler
artist Herb Familton
inker Herb Familton
cover pencils Ogden Whitney
cover inks Ogden Whitney
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A doctor raises a Martian child among humans as an experiment. When a young man breaks several athletic records, his rival for the affection of a young girl digs through the doctor's records attempting to prove his suspicions regarding alien origin. The doctor catches him going through the files and confronts the snoop with the knowledge that he might be the alien since he does not remember his parents, and the man leaves town to kept the secret quiet. At the wedding of the athletic man and the young girl, the doctor's thoughts reveal that it is the girl who is the Martian.
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