From Beyond the Unknown #4
In "Riddle of the Vanishing Earthmen!", young David Haddon, shaped by his father's radical experiments, harnesses a mysterious homing instinct to journey beyond Earth in search of mankind's forgotten origin. Guided by an awakened ancestral memory, he lands on a distant world where evolution took a startling turn—where humanity's past may hold more than just myth. Written by Gardner Fox and brought to life by Carmine Infantino's dynamic art, with Bernard Sachs' inks and Gaspar Saladino's crisp lettering, this 1970 DC classic features a cover by Murphy Anderson that captures the mystery and wonder of the unknown.
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From the time he was a little boy, David Haddon's scientist father experimented on his son, developing an uncanny advanced "homing instinct" in him. By age twenty David's homing instinct is so finely developed that the elder Haddon medically awakens an "ancestral memory" in David so that he may find "mankind's original home -- somewhere in the stars!" His homing instinct leads David to a distant planet where man's scientific meddling caused evolution to take a different path than on Earth.
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