Forbidden Worlds #47

Tommy Trent cuts quite the figure at Elmville High—a smooth-talking kid with a talent for tall tales that keeps his friends entertained and, more importantly, might finally impress Peggy, the girl of his dreams. From bank robberies to African uranium prospecting to encounters with flying saucers, Tommy's stories keep escalating in wild ambition, each one designed to grab attention and win Peggy's admiration. But as his fabrications pile up, the line between charming exaggeration and chronic dishonesty starts to blur, with real consequences on the horizon.

In "The Invisible Men!" from Forbidden Worlds #47 (1956), Harry Miles—once a man given five years to live after a wartime explosion—finds unexpected fame as a mystery writer. But when his fictional creations begin to step out of the pages and into his life, reality starts to blur in ways he never imagined.

An Arctic expedition shelters with Inuit hunters while awaiting rescue, passing the time hearing native legends of the Veelik—a mythical creature that was part polar bear, part human. When their relief ship finally breaks through the ice to collect them, the crew spots something frozen within an iceberg that challenges everything they thought they knew about the old stories. As the ship's passage destabilizes the ice, whatever truth lay locked within drifts away into the frozen sea, leaving only the question: does the Veelik truly exist?