Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds #33
Rocke Mastroserio, Bill Molno and Charles Nicholas · PD
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A census taker enters a town that doesn't exist, and a millionaire builds a paradise for the wrong species. This anthology collects several eerie tales of the unknown, featuring a town of vanishing people, a volcanic island inhabited by heat-dwelling monsters, a scientist who accidentally travels to a miserable past, and a prospector turned invisible by an atomic blast. Explore the fringes of reality in these chilling stories of science fiction and the supernatural.
28 pages · 131 panels · every panel read aloud, every balloon voiced, with sound effects and soundscapes.
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How “Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds #33” begins
Every balloon from the first pages, as it is read aloud:
Mysteries of unexplored worlds
Your job… Census taker! The town… Paulston… Population… 6,714… But are they people? Don't miss "a normal little town!"
It appeared on all maps of the united states… Had a population listed at 6,714… Chief industries fine furniture, precision instruments, and wicker-ware! No main highways ran through paulston… Or railroads. In fact, salesman hadn't been near the place in years because no one there seemed to buy anything! But census-taker henry l. Tolliver had to stay there quite a while!
A normal little town!
This is odd! It's the seventeenth home i've called and i haven't found anyone in! According to the last census, a man named hammond lives here with his wife!
Looking down-street before he climbed into his car, mr. Tolliver saw what seemed to be normal movement: trucks and cars, people walking past stores, etc.! He hurried that way…
They seem to vanish before i get close to them!
I… I don't understand! Someone must've been driving this car! Whoever it was just left it running here in the middle of the stret! The people i saw from way back there…
They're gone! No one in the stores… No one on the streets!
How can i ask people questions for my census if there aren't any people here? I'll call headquarters in the regional offices!
Call the operator for long distance… I'll reverse the charges, naturally!
Hello, hello! Operator?
The number you have reached has been disconnected!
But i dialed the o for operator!
I dialed a dozen numbers… Big companies i looked up in the telephone directory! I even called the telephone company business office! No one answers anywhere! The town is empty! I'm going to get out of here!
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