Marvel Tales May 1940 by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Pulp, SF, Horreur
Publisher: Western Fiction Publishing
Published: 1939-12-31T23:00:00+00:00

ND yet—He glanced back at the test tube containing the lovely young woman. Thorndile had done this. Using his great knowledge of the very latest developments in many branches of ultramodern science, he had accomplished a seeming miracle. If he could do the thing which other scientists had deemed impossible—if he had created a new scientific Adam and Eve—why not the rest?

“How, Professor, will you proceed to set up this superman as world dictator?” he asked, trying to make his voice sound natural. “What of the armies, the forces on land and sea and in the air? It seems to me an impossible undertaking!”

The scientist tapped Mansfield’s chest with a bony finger.

“You are talking nonsense!” he scoffed. “Armies, navies, airplanes! Of what use will they be against my superman? Bullets will not harm him; poison gas will not kill him, any more than it can kill certain bacteria with which he is inoculated. The fellow is invulnerable, and I estimate his lifespan at two hundred years!”

“Two hundred years!”

“Certainly! Now, listen to me, Mansfield. You have observed grasshoppers, have you not?”

“Grasshoppers? Certainly!”

“You have seen them leap great distances. A man who could catapult himself a corresponding distance for his size would be killed by the fall, would he not? Furthermore, a normal man would jerk his own legs off if he could spring from the ground with enough force to equal the grasshopper’s feat, for his size. Or think of an enormous house fly, the size of a man. Think what a monster he would be, Mansfield—his strength, his relative invulnerability! Think of any insect, the ant, for instance. How does it compare with man, considering the differences in size between them?”

Mansfield wore a puzzled frown.

“What are you getting at, Thorndile?” he asked.

“Just this! Years ago I discovered how the flesh and blood and bones of a human infant could be treated in the embryonic stages as to develop the best characteristics of insect life, yet leaving the brain all its highest functions of thought, will power and imagination. In fact, in the case of my superman, I have been able, by the means of gland secretions, to give him a gigantic brain and a mind that transcends even my own ability to realize its powers!”

Mansfield shook his head slowly.

“All this sounds incredible,” he said, “yet I am forced to believe you know what you are talking about. If I hadn’t seen with my own eyes—” He paused, glancing at the sleeping beauty. “What of her?” he asked, with a slight choke in his voice. She seemed so sweetly innocent that it pained the young artist to regard her as being in any way connected with all this scientific madness. “Is she, too, invulnerable to ordinary death-dealing instruments?”

Thorndile jerked his egg-like head decisively. “No,” he sneered, “I have little interest in her, Mansfield. As soon as she has served my purpose she will be destroyed.”

“Destroyed!” Mansfield drew back.

The scientist crackled with amusement. “Ha, your artistic sense is shocked at the idea of destroying such beauty!” he laughed.

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