House of Mystery #26
In "The Man with the Magic Ears!", pioneering engineer Alfred Jarvis harnesses a strange machine that lets him hear the voices of plants— their cries, their sobs, their final sighs. As he becomes obsessed with protecting flora from human destruction, his actions grow more extreme, turning him into a figure of suspicion and fear. Curt Swan's art, inked by Ray Burnley, brings a haunting, grounded realism to this eerie 1954 tale, while Ruben Moreira's cover captures the story's unsettling mood with striking detail.
In "The Man with the Magic Ears!", pioneering engineer Alfred Jarvis becomes obsessed with a device that lets him hear the silent cries of plants—screams of pain, mournful sighs, and the final whispers of dying blooms. As he races to protect nature from human destruction, his desperate pleas earn him the label of madman, leaving him isolated in a world that can’t hear what he now can.
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Reprinted in Five-Score Comic Monthly #9 (1958), My Greatest Adventure #24 (1958), The Fox and the Crow #61 (1960), DC Special #4 (1969), Fantastic Tales #11
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