Fantastic Four #45

In "L'homme qui changeait!", a quietly unremarkable man endures an atomic test on a remote island, hoping the experience might finally make him feel seen. When the blast sears his eyes and leaves him hospitalized, he awakens transformed—taller, stronger, and strikingly handsome—leaving him to wonder if the change was a miracle or a curse.

In "Ris, que diable, ris!", a struggling science fiction editor faces mounting pressure as his career unravels—his boss favors a colleague whose constant smile feels increasingly unnatural. When rising circulation leads to his sudden dismissal, the editor spirals into despair, turning to drink and then violence, attacking his former assistant in a frenzied rage. As he tears away the man’s smiling mask, he uncovers a terrifying truth beneath, only to be dismissed as mad and confined to an asylum.