The Martian Monster And Other Stories (The EC Comics Library, 25)

Political opportunists attempt to stop robots from achieving world peace in the latest collection of short comics stories from one of the more subversive EC artists.

Stories in this volume include "The Martian Monster," in which a 9-year-old boy befriends a Martian in the woods and asks him to kill his stepmother ― but the "Martian" convinces him that it’s really his father who he should target. There’s sharp social commentary in "…And Then There Were Two!" (highly intelligent robots unveil a plan for world peace, but political opportunists launch an anti-robot campaign to discredit them) and "Prediction of Disaster!" (an astronomer concludes that our sun is about to go nova and tries to warn the world). Black & white illustrations throughout.