So sometimes, things get weird:
But how you you go about pretending to find hidden Venusians?
I suppose in the pre-internet days, that was actually not a bad way to soak up all of Earth's information. I might mention...a) just to to the library. They probably already subscribe to those magazine, have back issue archives...and it's free! b) Would you really want to subscribe to every periodical published? I mean, how are Playboy or Angling Times going to help you take over the world??
Anyway, it turns out that the list of people who subscribe to every periodical published is surprisingly large!
Don't worry, we'll come back to it.
Taken by...
So, a batch of people escaped from an asylum, and they all have the exact same delusion?I mean, Arkham and Gotham aren't this bad!!
So, where do escaped asylum inmates get 6 or 7 matching alien costumes?!?
So, where does an asylum escapee get $3,000 in cash?
So, one private investigator was killed, and four went "missing"--and we can probably assume they were killed, too--why the hell weren't the police already all over this case? I mean, I know all 1950s P.I.s are rugged loners and such, but someone has to notice that they're missing, right?
So, this group of escaped lunatics is a bunch of mass murderers...and nobody really seems concerned?
Anyway...
From Ken Shannon #10 (1953)
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I had to do a little digging to confirm, but I did remember correctly: most of this plot is lifted handily from an episode of the radio series DIMENSION X ... it's called "The Embassy" and aired on June 3, 1950, so that's plenty of time for the writer of the Ken Shannon story to absorb it completely. (And then Rod Serling borrowed the "Martians are coming but the Venusians got here first" thing for the TWILIGHT ZONE episode "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up.")
But you knew all of that, I'm sure.
The poaching between radio/TV, short stories & comic books was pretty ubiquitous back in those days...
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