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Forbidden Worlds #47 (1956)
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Tommy Trent spins a series of wildly exaggerated tales to impress his friends and win the attention of Peggy, the girl he admires—claiming he thwarted bank robbers, outwitted a savage tribe in Africa, and confronted alien invaders from a flying saucer. His friends laugh at first, but when he insists on the truth of his most outlandish story, Peggy finally snaps, fed up with his endless fabrications.
In "The Invisible Men!" from Forbidden Worlds #47 (1956), Harry Miles—once a man given five years to live after a wartime explosion—finds unexpected fame as a mystery writer. But when his fictional creations begin to step out of the pages and into his life, reality starts to blur in ways he never imagined.
In the midst of a brutal Arctic blizzard, an expedition crew takes refuge with local Inuit, where they hear the old legend of the Veelik—half-human, half-polar bear beings said to have once roamed the ice. When their relief ship finally arrives, they spot a massive iceberg that seems to hold a frozen creature, its form revealing a chillingly human hand, before the ice shifts and vanishes into the sea.