Strange Stories of Suspense #10
In "The Weeds," a Martian boy abandoned on Earth after his father’s warning about life on Mars grows up stealing just to survive, haunted by his alien heritage. When he reunites with his sister—now married to a human and raising children who don’t share his green hair—he decides to return to Mars using his father’s forgotten saucer, hoping the planet has changed for the better. Written by Carl Wessler and illustrated by Paul Hodge, with a striking cover by Sol Brodsky, this 1956 tale blends quiet melancholy with interplanetary longing.
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When a Martian father tells his son that things are bad on Mars, he tries to get an Earth couple to adopt him, but they realize he is a Martian and plan to turn him over to authorities. The boy flees, and spends years as a thief just to get by. After finding his sister, who has married a human and produced children without green hair like he has, he decides to use the flying saucer his father left behind to return to Mars in hopes that things are better there now.
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