Five-Score Plus Comic Monthly #26
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Creature in Echo Lake," writer Gardner Fox and artists Sid Greene (pencils and inks) deliver a rare sci-fi mystery from 1960, where Frank Barrows awakens to a cryptic voice declaring the future rests on his shoulders. With help from an android duplicate of himself, Frank must bridge time to prevent a cosmic threat—light-beings from Aldebaran poisoning Earth with monargon—using a single, precise atomic trick. Cover by Dick Dillin and Sheldon Moldoff captures the eerie, otherworldly tone of this early speculative tale.
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Frank Barrows wakes to a voice telling him that the future depends on him. Frank builds an android duplicate of himself which is sent to the future, but Frank and the android can communicate with each other across time. In the future, light-beings from Aldebaran are "inhaling" argon and "exhaling" monargon, a poisonous waste. Future historical records show that Barrows had developed a technology that could help, but the android duplicates a Frank before he had started that research. Frank is able to knock an electron off an argon atom and get poisonous chlorine and chase away the light-beings.
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