Uncanny Tales #11
In "The Man Who Changed," a meek man volunteers to stay behind during an H-Bomb test on a remote island, hoping for a transformation—any change at all. After being blinded and burned by the blast, he awakens in a hospital, miraculously altered: now towering, strong, and strikingly handsome. Though he dreams of a new life and love, the world recoils from his new form, leaving him to find acceptance among the very animals that endured the same experiment. Bill Benulis pencils the story with Jack Abel inking, while Bill Everett delivers the striking cover.
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A timid, unimpressive man stays behind to witness an H Bomb test on an island with the guinea pigs figuring that any change will be an improvement. The bomb flash blinds and burns him, but when he recovers in the hospital, he finds that he has grown taller, powerfully built and handsome. He resolves to leave the institution, although the personnel attempt to restrain him for fear of his contamination, and marry the girl he's wild about. She reacts in fear to his presence though, and all people shun him. He returns to the test island where the guinea pigs accept him.
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