Dead of Night #7
In "Corpse in the Streets," a lone scientist’s radical theory—that magnetism, not gravity, holds the universe together—leads to a catastrophic experiment with the moon. When his machine triggers a global rise in ocean levels, the resulting flood threatens everything, leaving a desperate race to shut it down. Steve Ditko’s stark, inventive art brings this eerie scientific nightmare to life, while Larry Lieber and Frank Giacoia’s cover captures the dread of a world unraveling.
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A scientist has a theory that there is no gravitational force, instead, everything is held in place by magnetism. He builds a machine to prove his theory and points it at the moon. Unfortunately, this causes ocean levels to rise so high that his building is submerged and he drowns trying to shut off the machine without damaging it. A brave major from a nearby military base has no such scruples and he wrecks the machine, thus saving the world.
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