Strange Stories of Suspense (1955) 10

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Cover art by Sol Brodsky. "The Weeds," art by Mort Meskin; Sailors enter the Sargasso sea and find that the seaweed there prolongs life and slows awareness of time when eaten because, when a hurricane develops and they are able to take advantage of the winds to leave the small island that they were marooned on, they come back to a futuristic port many years after they started. "In the Shadows," art by Reed Crandall; When a man gets in a plane crash, a creature from another dimension offers to heal his wounds if he will love it; He agrees, but he notices odd things about the woman over time and she admits to him that she is not human; She begs him to forget what she has told him. "Flee for Your Life!", script by Carl Wessler, art by Paul Hodge; When a Martian father tells his son that things are bad on Mars, he tries to get an Earth couple to adopt him, but they realize he is a Martian and plan to turn him over to authorities; The boy flees, and spends years as a thief just to get by. "The Secret of the Black Forest," script by Carl Wessler, inks by Angelo Torres; A visitor from Jupiter finds the humans ungrateful to him when he attempts to build them modern domiciles. "Genius for Trouble" text story, art by John Tartaglione. "The Crisis!", art by Vic Carrabotta. "The Long Sleep!", art by John Forte; A scientist looks down on the laborer that he has construct his suspended animation cabinet, but after awaking one thousand years in the future, he finds that he has only enough mental capacity for manual labor and comes to be content with his place in society. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.