Uncanny Tales #44
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free"Out of the Swamps!" in Uncanny Tales #44 (1956) delivers a rare, eerie sci-fi tale from the early days of Marvel, spotlighting a scientist’s unsettling discovery in the swamp: a fleeting lemur species with a week-long lifespan. With dynamic art by Dick Ayers handling pencils, inks, and lettering, and a haunting cover by Carl Burgos, the story explores the cost of accelerated evolution—and what happens when nature’s secrets are too powerful to keep.
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A scientist discovers a type of lemur living in the swamp that only lives for a week. He gets the idea to conduct an experiment in accelerated evolution and they produce wondrous discoveries which he shares with mankind. His contact with the outside world wants the power that such information would give him and so, after defeating the villain, the lemurs decide to return to the swamp where they will soon go back to their old ways of living.
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