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TITLE:
The Amazing Growth Machine
WRITER:
Jack Miller
ARTIST:
Ruben Moreira
INKER:
Ruben Moreira
CHARACTERS:
Roy Raymond; Karen Colby
PLOT:
Roy and Karen go to inspect a supposed growth machine in person. To their astonishment, the machine appears to work just as described! After emitting a blindingly bright flash of white light, whatever object it's placed in front of
grows to gigantic size. While on location, the television detective and his secretary spot escaped robber Harry Gray, who is said to be a known associate of public enemy number one John Sawyer. The machine's inventor, John Wall, uses the
growth ray to enlarge the handcuff attached to Gray's wrist making it too heavy to carry and stopping his escape.
So impressed by this feat is Roy that he invites Wall to be on "Impossible... But True!" There the inventor uses his ray to supersize a model of the French Ocean Liner "Ile De Paris" and earns himself a
complimentary trip to France from the French Embassy for doing so. Unfortunately the
eternally skeptic Roy Raymond had replaced the supposed "growth" bulb inside the machine with a regular extra bright light bulb and exposes
Wall as a fake. It turns out Wall is actually John Sawyer. Knowing that his partner Gray was destined to be collared, Sawyer convinced Gray to let him capture him so that he could flee the company. The handcuff had been a prop and the entire
scene was faked. Inside the ocean liner prop, Raymond finds the money Gray and Sawyer had stolen.
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TITLE:
The Criminal from Outer Space
WRITER:
Jack Miller
ARTIST:
Joe Certa
INKER:
Joe Certa
EDITORS:
Jack Schiff
CHARACTERS:
Martian Manhunter (J’onn J’onzz); Captain Harding
PLOT:
John Jones hears a mysterious voice calling his martian name. The voice belongs to a criminal martian robot named Tor. Tor was exiled to the planet Turas, but has found a way to control gangster Marty Kirk on Earth. Tor grants Kirk invulnerability and tries to kill Jones.
John must survive Tor's attacks for 24 hours until the robot dies on Turas from the dust of that world. When Tor realizes he will not succeed in killing Jones, he tries to expose his martian existence on Earth. John stops him by starting a fire, which weakens not only himself, but Kirk as well. When the 24 hour time limit passes, Tor dies, and Kirk regains control of his body with no memories of events while under Tor's influence.
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