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.