Strange Stories of Suspense #14
"Beware...A Martian" in Strange Stories of Suspense #14 (1957) delivers a twisty, wartime tale where a German soldier’s desperate search for survival leads him to a fabled well—only to find himself caught between myth and fate. With art and inks by Doug Wildey and lettering by Joe Letterese, the story unfolds with a haunting blend of legend and irony, grounded in the harsh realities of the African desert. The cover by Bill Everett captures the eerie tension of the moment, a visual tease that echoes the issue’s chilling, unexpected turn.
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In Africa, during WWII, a German soldier finds the well where Achilles' mother bathed him and so becomes invulnerable to bullets and steals the American soldiers' food who had found him wandering dazed in the desert. They open up on him and one of the bullets glances off his heal, killing him, because that is where the American medic had placed a bandage over a boot blister.
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