Marvel Tales #83
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free"Beauty and the Brute" is a quietly haunting tale from 1977, written by Stan Lee and brought to life with eerie precision by Steve Ditko, whose distinctive art and inks lend a dreamlike unease to the story. When a girl in a wheelchair begins sleepwalking—rolling herself underwater—her aunt and uncle confront a secret they’ve long guarded: their ward is not entirely human, and her true home lies beneath the waves. The cover by Gil Kane and Frank Giacoia captures the story’s melancholy mystery, making this a standout issue in the Marvel Tales series.
In "Goodbye to Linda Brown," a girl named Jo, confined to a wheelchair and raised by her aunt and uncle, begins sleepwalking—each night vanishing into the sea, her chair gliding effortlessly beneath the waves. Though heartbroken, her guardians quietly accept that their mermaid ward was never truly meant to stay.
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↩ Reprints Strange Tales #97 (1962), The Amazing Spider-Man #104 (1972)
Reprinted in The Amazing Spider-Man Omnibus #3 (2017)
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