Tower of Shadows #1
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "At the Stroke of Midnight!", Stan Lee and John Buscema deliver a chilling tale of ambition and transformation, as an obsessed scientist seeks immortality through an elixir drawn from a centuries-old Redwood. When his mute assistant takes matters into his own hands, the experiment spirals into a haunting metamorphosis—leaving one man forever bound to the earth, a living tree in every sense. The cover by John Romita captures the eerie moment with striking detail, making this 1969 issue a standout in Marvel's early horror anthology series.
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An old scientist is obsessed with creating an elixir that will give him eternal life. He extracts material from a Redwood tree which is known to live for thousands of years to complete the elixir. However his mute assistant kills him and drinks the elixir himself. This causes him to literally turn into a tree man who will live for thousands of years rooted to the ground.
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