Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Menace #1
"**One Head Too Many!**" from *Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Menace #1* (2009) delivers a chilling twist on the classic sci-fi horror trope, as a scientist’s cobalt bomb test unleashes terrifying mutations—only to leave him questioning his own reflection. Robert Q. Sale’s stark, expressive art brings the creeping dread to life, while Bill Everett’s cover captures the eerie, surreal tone of the tale. The story lingers on the edge of paranoia, where the line between monster and man blurs, and a simple prank becomes a haunting question.
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A scientist invents a cobalt bomb that results in monstrous mutations in a few individuals present at the test site. He hunts them down and shoots them, but when he awakens from the night's work and looks in the bathroom mirror, he sees a monstrous visage glaring back at him. He thinks that he must have been affected as well and uses the gun on himself. The shot wakes his son and wife, but the mother tells her boy it was probably a car backfiring and to go back to sleep. The boy asks his mother how dad will take the joke he played taping a monster picture onto his bathroom mirror.
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