THE LATE NIGHT HOUR NEARS TWELVE | BRUT WHAT 16 4emesseade ABOUT Ey No! L DIDN'T-- O'CLOCK |N THE SECLUDED MANSION THAT? NOT MUCH, SAVE THAT THE I MEAN THESE OF A WEALTHY YOUNG SCIENTIST YEAR 16 2OOZ == A TIME IN THE NAMED BUGENE WHITLOCK, AS HE NOT-SO- DIBTANT FUTURE WHEN FACES THE FLOOR OF HIS HAVKATE BOOKS AREN'T MINE! I WAS BOOKS ARE FOR BIDPEN. A JUST LOOKING WITH THE PENALTY FoR, THEIR MERE POSSESSION NO LESS THAN DEATH! Burt THERE (S NO REASONING WITH THE DREADED THOUGAIT POLICE, AND WHITLOCK'S FATE 16 SEALEQ AS I6-THE FATE OF 422 THOSE WHO IN THIS AGE WOULD BARE TO THINK! THEN CORE TE MMIDIINGHT MAN YY fA NS PYOU HAVE BROKEN eS EXECUTE MIMS & Jee ior te sus VASS iy f 6 P TRIBUNAL=--AND NOW YOU MUST WILL Bay FOR YOUR SINS... / LL THOSE’ WHO WOULD BARE DE THE LAWS OF THE LANDSWHILE THE woOweEwr POLICE PERFORM THEIR HIDEOUS DUTIES aveyoe, YET ANOTHER OF THEIR BNEMIES WATCHES IN MORROR FROM THE FR SHELTER OF A SURROUND- N@ POREST--4AN ENEMY THE SERUM 16 NBARLY Gowe-- AND THE TIME HAS COME FOR ME TO TAKE Moke! IN MY AUMAN STATE FOR. YET BUT GHOULP I ti BAIL. TO TAKE (T= is WILL WITHIN MOMENTS (uaa REVERT TO MY THOSE HIDEOUS SCREAMS COMING FROM WITHIN - ae CAN MEAN ONLY OME THANG. L DON'T | WANT THAT TO HAPPEN YET IF 1 Atcow IT To, PERHAPS T GAN MELP PROFES- SOR WHITLOCK! 4@AGT HAVE THE hig ve Py) ‘TO DESTROY TH THOUGHT POLICE, IN@TEAD OF THE MAN WHO T 5B? WELL, IF YOU MIGGED OUR FAST TIVO 48SLE5, HANG IN THERE! We PROMISE ALL WILL. BE MACE CLEAR PREITY SOON WE WOPE”.. LARRY.WINTIL, ALL WitHIn A MATTER OF SF » WHAT Was 4A MAN ib Now MON6TROUS MAGS OF LIVING VEGETATION THAT POSSESSEB NO MIND, ONLY THE PLANT-LIKE WILL TO SURIVRE.. FNAUy, IT SPRINGS.TO LnAR, GHRIEKING OUT“: HIGH, PITIFUL MOAN LIME THAT OF 4. Sma } IMAL WHICH MUST EITHER BE Fab OR PBs! JAND, THouGH IT ae VEGEMaze RATHER THAN ANIMAL, ITSTILL SENSES THAT FOOD 16 NEARBY 3 -- FOOD THAT MAY BASILY BE 4 TAKEN AND TED TO FILL THE RAGING HUNGER THAT WELL UP WITHIN |16 ByaTEM leMMEANWHILE, ONLY A FEW HUNORED YARDS AWiaty, MORLOCK'S SOURCE OF SUSTENANCE |S UNWITTINGLY, ABOUT TO WALK INTO THE CREATURE'S HUNGER- CRAZED CLUTCHES... - LET'S Ger BACK THAT WRAPS (Te TO HEADQUARTERS?! \F BOYS! WHITLOCH'S Ayv-’ WE'RE LUO Y WE MAY. AND $016 HIS , GET TO BURN A FEW cheRARYy/ MORE THOUBAND BOOKS BEFORE = NIGHT'S WHATS OUT THERE! | WE'RE 7RAPPEO! We T NO PLACE 10 GO/ ~.. ITS MOVIN == WALKIN" AND IT 1--1 AIN'T SURE! | JUST GRABBED THE SERGEANT-- IT LOOKS "LIKE A TREE “ALL. COVERED WITH | a SLIME =~ EXCEPT,., STILL, THE LAW sare ALL 7AoueAT POLICE ARE TRUGT- WORTHY--ANB THAT MEANS I GOTTA CHECK... -. EVEN THOUGH I AvOW THE Guy's LOST HIS MARBLES! eh YA KNOW, T'LL NEVER MDE R- STAND WHY GUYS LIKE HIM WANNA KEEP OOS a AROUND, I MEAN, WE ALL KNOW THEY'RE B40 FOR YOU- BAD FOR THE WHOLE LISTEN TO THAT KINDA NONSENSE!jf COME ON, WE GOTTA MAKE A '{ CHIEF! CAN'T You | / @4SH, CHIEF! WHATS THE MATTER WITH you? | fe IT'S GONNA KILL US ; t Ate iF We bow sat a OUTTA HERE! : THE bi 4 a F ‘ \I ; " ares " POLICE CHIEF i af ; ‘ STANDB yi A ¥ FROZEN LIKE A - HIS MIND 60 WARPED WITH R, He i's NO wea! WE. | AND SO, FROZEN WITH FRIGHT, HIS MIND: TOTALLY CAN'T JUST STAY HERE ME! I DON'T KNOW INOPERATIVE, THE HEAD OF A GOVERNMENT WHAT THIG THING 4@ \ | "FHOLOHT POLICE UNIT STANDS ALONE... *“BUT I DON'T WANNA i ery a BE ON ITS MeL LET'S BRAT IT! | Ano wirh |} ONE LAST, BLOOD- + CURDLING SCREAM, | HIS LIFE (5 @WRED! HIS FLESH 16 aL — ~ INSTANTANEOUSLY ... THE WORGT POSSIBLE | | aaae ". SENGATION KNOWN TO THE HUMAN MIND-- THE TER: “. RIBLE SENBATION OF Aaa? . |] AGA THAT FLESH is | QUICKLY ABSORBED & | INTO THE VEGETABLE | BObyY OF MORIOLK’ 5BANWHILs INGIDE 8 THe : INBBRNO wien mM MINUTES BE! 1 REMEMBER THE FIRB-~ THE AAIN WHEN THE J) STILL, L Must J VF 7 To scare’ Yi WILL #/A2 MB -- J SOMEONE WHO derosas THE TRIBUNAL... ME, DESPITE My HORRID CONGITION! IT 1S A Sti Hope--/ BUT THAT IS BETTER THAN NO HOPE \ AT ALLS I MUST Live--SO THAT THE IDEOLOGY THE CLOCH + IT'S STOPPED AT MIGNIGHT/ BUT THAT SHALL NOT SIGNIFY THE &NQ--RATHER IT SHALL. BECOME A SYM: | ( 40@O! THOSE MUST BE THRO DEGREE . BURNS ON MY HANOS--AND YET THERE ISN'T EVEN THE SLIGHEST BEELING OF B/SCOAF AR MUST BE cose TO OATH! BUT THE SHOCK SYN- \ OROME WILL NOT ALLOW MY MIND al ITS ALL GOoMe “MG NOW-- PERHAPS THE GREATEST LIBRARY REMAINING ON SARTH SINCE THE ao0owr- AIL I BUT THAT WAS NEVIT ABLE (CALL THAT MATTERS A (S$ THATZ AM STILL ALIVE... CAND IE Cian REMAIN SO, MUCH OF THE AMOWLEDGE CON- ~S TAINED IN THOSE BOOKS WILL LIVE Merv ME-- iN A dono! " YES-- MeVOLUTION “> "> HAS BEEN MY ONLY GOAL.“ > FOR Y#ARS’ AND NOW, IF I CAN CLING TO 44°@-* S&e THE o> AN ARMY WILL MARCH FORWARD AGAINST THE OF 24BERTY..waaie IT SEEMED \ NOW IT FALLS LIF L@S6 AT MAY Paar! MY BRAIN? DID I REALLY MALLUCINATIN BELIEVING A MERE | FALLEN TREE TO Fa BEA LIVING BENE 2 \ Psa cs 1 16 TVS? BEFORE MY VERY EYES-- THAT WHICH AAOMENTS Possiaia! 1 BEFORE WAS NOTHING BUT HAVE STUDIED WOOD--NOW BEGINS TO ASSUME, ALL THE GREAT : HUMAN FORM! WRITINGS OF || WHERE'S THERE MENTION \ OF ANY PHENOMENON | SUCH Ap TwARe BUT IT 1S NOT iY UNLESS --BUT OF COumSEY HE RUMORS-~ THEY MUST E TRUE! THIG MUST BE THE THING+* THE I MUST IT:-ANOD SEEK AlQ-- BEFORE 1, MYSHLE PERIGH FROM MY wouvos’AAND AT THAT MOMENT, SEVERAL MILES AWAY, INTHE CMeNT,..| Your amarvaL HAS BEEN MOMTOREQ prey CAR 16! WHAT (S THE NATURE OF i u 7 YOUR BUSINESD.A P WE HAVE A SHE WAL REPGRT \ \T CONCERNS FOR THE TRIGUNALS NATIONAL / nemuna. \ /- \ WHAT 1@ TRUE F ; ANG WHATIS J aoc SF 2 bes as Secveypy/ rer | THEN. AFTER A’ SHORT, FEAR- FILLED EXPLANATION OF THE EVENING'S BIZARRE BVENTé By THE 7 POLICEMEN... a WE Wa”LO MOPE SOS ANO THAT'S THE “X. FORTUNATELY FOR YOU, WE TRUTaM, YOUR | S8L(@V@ you! ' EXCELLENGIRG! WE'RE ‘ WELL-TRAINED O#FICERS! WE MNOW THE CONSEQUENCES OF 4¥owas if a r ae) (tna Mbt pt ei tt rd SLL) MAE Ty (WATCHING THESE Y BUT LET THEM : SOLDIERS' ACTIONS , ANSWER FROM THEIR, CAR! DO NOTADM/F MMA AP = UNDERSTAND Bu'surecy UNDER WHAT WE MUST STAND WE CANNOT 00 D Assuvee CAST IT AGIPE Te $ | THAT SECRECY THE WHIMS OF f'9 KEPT wracr/ *..BUT NOW WE MUST EXACT FROM YOU THE 24 7IMATE PRICE FOR YOUR COUNTRY-- IN THE NAME OF MATIGMAL SECURITY?»+ LET MB ONCE pine RUN THE WE GATHERED ON CLIN THIG INGTANCE, THE MAN- CREATURE CALLED MORLOGH! \ "AG I'M CERTAIN YOU AOMEMBE®, TWO WEREDIGLY 4 PORE WERE TAKEN1 NWO-MORLOCKS YOU DON'T LMPER- STAND! THIS ISN'T WHAT IT SEEAIS! ME--PRETENDING TO BE MY FRIEMO-- WHILE ALL THE TIME You WERE WORKING "IN PLAIN SIGHT OF OBWOLUISLY SANE MEN, TRANSFORMED INTO A GIGANTIC, LIVING PLANT... -——__—_______4 ‘ AND TO PROVE baat in \ VERY BYES-- HES. y 1s ALMOST UNBELIEVABLE! AM 1 MAD? AM i. TRULY /A/ SOME p, SORT OF STATE OF SWOcK? “THERE, BEFORE. 4 OF MORLOCK... GRADUALLY REVERTED TO SOME SORT OF | MUMAN FORM SEVERAL MINUTES a AGO, HE WAS “WHAT HAPPENED IN THE NEXT FEW) MINUTES — WOULP NEVER HAVE BEEN ACCEPTEP AS THE | TRUTH BY ANY OF US HAD If NOT BEEN FOR THE , NUMBER OF WITNESSES 2 Sg Ff THE EYES OF OUR BEGAN TO.SHAKE --QUIVER-- TREMBLE == THEM, ; THERE IT 4S! AS ... THEN ONCE MORE YOU ALL HNOW, THE RETURNED TO HIS HUMAN MAN MORLOCK MHLED. FORM AND SSCEIPED/ OUR: FEMALE® OPERATIVE... i Now HE HAS ATTACKED US AGAIN! HE MUST BE S7OPPED--KO MATIER WHAT THE COST IN NOT!’ I SHOULD HAVE CONSIDERED |T SOONER! THOUGH MY BODY 1S BADLY ary SCARRED, 1 FEEL NO Adi’ AND THOUGH THAT IS S INEXPLITCABLE... Vo CAN EXPLAIN THIS MAN-PLANT/ ONE THE GOVERN- MENT HAS BEEN OFFERING A REMARO £ FOR! THIS MUST BE--M@ALOCK,WY THE HOUSE-- THE LIBRARY--ARE ' ALLIN AUIS! BUT I AM AlivE-- AND 80 IS THIS EXTRA- ORDINARY BEINGS r THIS MORLOCK-- HE COULD BE THE KEY TO OUR C4u/SE-- IF ONLY HE STILL BREATHES! THANK GOD! THE FIRE. HASN'T Jay i? SHORT- CIRGUITED THE EMERGENCY GENERATOR! & MEANS THE 7 BUT NEITHER OF US CAN LONG SURVIVE IF WE DO NOT ALEE THIS BLAZING INFERNO! Y@S, THOUGH HE 1G UNCONSCIOUS, \ HIS PULSE REMAINS STRONG! 1 MUST TAKE HIM TO THE GREAT REFUGE WITH S UIMOST HASTE! THE RAILWAY ENTRANCE 1S STILL FUNCTION AL:* WHICH SUPPLY MUST ALSO BE 1 CAN SUMMON THE 6TRENGTH To DRAG HIM DOWN “4 TEN FLIGHTS OF J STAIRS TO THE - STATIONS JF TRACK POWER HE |S M@AVyY FOR A Wij TO SAVE HIM--EVENAS MAN OF HIS HEIGHT-- IL MANAGED TO SURVIVE ALMOST TOO HEAVY TO WOUNDS WHICH SHOULD DRAG TO SAFETY.’ HAVE A/LLEO MES THAT WAS exose’ My} SOMEHOW 1 MANAGED ' ( BUT I CANNOT RISK TRAVELING . IN THE OFEA! T WILL USE THE i, EMERGENCY ; Rawagy’ WHO ARE ‘YOu? THE HEAT=-1 SMELL. SMOKE! WHAT 15 YOUR QUESTIONS HAPPENING? LATER? I AM A FRIEND: FOLLOW ME, IF YOU ARE ABLES I WILL LEAD You TO | SAFETY. perHOW ee I KNOW T CAN 7S THAT 1 you? HOW De 7 KNOW THE GROUND i¢ ff YOU WILL NOT TURN CLOSING AaoKe 51h Us! AUTHORITIES FOR. f THiS (6 THE STATION! Winey Si beac UACIBROADLD RANcTIOnY? THE 4/GA7 IN THE DISTANCE? ATO ue 6 THE REMAING OF WHAT ONCE WAS THE NBW YOAN SUBWA SYSTEM-- BEFORE THE LAST i GREAT WARSours LATER, AS THE FIRST RAYS OF DAWN FILTER ACROSS THE SMOULDERING RUING OF PROFESSOR I REGRET, EXCELLENCIES, THAT WE HAVE FOUND HOWEVER, IF YOu Waist WE WILL CONTINUE Ta WwHiTio wd 2 HOME... THEN OBEY AND GIVE ME NO MORE | Gxeugea! EVEN IF MORLOCK Mas BSCAPED-. - VERY WELL! Z SUPPOSE 2 HAVE LITTLE COME! MU6T BE SOME EV|DENCE OF THE CORPSES-~ on LEAST +7. WE MUST HAVE PROOF THAT Werthoece HAs Not! BRING US THAT PROOF OF PAY THE Perce THEREFORE, I WILL BO AG YOU SA IF YOU WILL KEEP ME COMPANY! TOU SEE, 2 AM NEI TO THIS WORLD! $0 PERHAPS You CAN TLL ME SOMETHING ABOUT IT NOTHING? 1T 15 AS. IF EVEN HIG SWAB TOAL tH, FOR HAS OWRINTEGRATEC as - OUR WILL 16 GuR _CanMManes SEARCHES IN ag, A LE TH gunna WORLD TWO MinsiING CORPSES. You 6K a0 MANY QUEBTIANG! QUESTIONS THAT I CANNOT ANSIVER,! )—— i wae OF YOu rau THEN, en THE WME RIGHT, PRORESSOR wal TEQcK WILL CAME --AND GIVE Bur WHILE THE GIRL TRIEG TO WARD OFF MORLOCKS CURIOSITY, MANY MORE QUESTIONS ARE BEING ANGWERED ONLY HUNDREDS OF YARDS AWAY... $0, FELLOW REBELS, THE HIGH TRIBUNAL I SAY THE TIME FOR g HAS KEPT THE PEOPLE REVOLUTION HAS SON SAKE ACQUIRED THE TOOL TO OVER- THROW THEM!fe ag he gg a : CM a = THEY TRIED 10 BURN oO = CH i =<" N | ME ALIVE BUT, BY SOME MIRACLE, MY LIFE WAS - SPARED! MOMENT OF «+ VOU MUST MBALIZE [fy REBIRTH, T THERE '6 V@ END TO WHICH REALIZED THE T1MB i HAD COME TO FORM THEY WILL NOT GO TG ELIMINATE UBS 7 L WILL CLOAK WHAT THEY - ae HAVE DONE TO ME WITH THI ‘Yet a THEN IT 18 Cowe! SUMMON ‘YOUR MASK! ANDO, WEARING THE 4 FAMILIES +" (OUR FAIENOS:- AND ALL SAME UNIFORMS SAAS MASK, ff ‘YOU? WILL OTHERS WHO, BELIEVE IN OUR CAUSE, .. E\ YOU FOLLOW THE AEST OF YOU SHALL FOLLOW ME INTO BAF TER! MBP! “ — i af S 1s: AND BRING = Jf) Sal BP THEM Here Tomorrow AT THE HOUR OF MIDMGNT! THEN, IF WE ARE STRONG ENOUGH IN MUMBERS LIKE QUR FORB- H TIONARY ARMY: ~ | AN ARMY CALLED Fae ir AA MENS AN ey (SAA s Oe <4 naw“THEN, AS THE SMALL BAND DIGPERSES IN SEA OF MEN AND WOMBN TO JOVA/ THE CAUSE. YOU MAY £FAVER Now, FaLiciA! I MUST HAVE WORDS IN PRIVATE WITH JF DOT KNOW YoU OUR GUEST-- MORLOCK ARE NOTA MEmMaER OF THE THOUGHT POLICE? IAM PROFESSOR WAYTLOCA OR T Medan’ es FROM THIS DAY FORWARD Al -- YOU AND ALL OTHERS _WILL KNOW ME AG... YOU NEEP SAY NO | AAORES OUR CAUGE I THE SAME! T WILL SAVE YOU IN ANY AY |, POmea HEAR AE, MORLOCK! THERE 4 16 MUCH TO BE AN ARMY IT. HOPE ONE DONE-- AND TIME DAY WILL OVERTHROW a. THE Aiea TRIBUNAL... THEN HEAR ME, MORLOCK.,., POSSIBLY! THIG IS OUR CoMMAND ~~) NERVE CENTER! \T HAS THE SAME EQuIP- \ | MENT THAT'S AVAILABLE To THE Taoumerr }) POLICE-- ALL COMMANCEERED : BY OUR $04 D/BRS! 7 I AM AWARE OF YOUR 1 PROBLEM! T'\VE FOLLOWED 1 YOUR CASE WITH GREAT |N- THOUGH THE TEREST SINCE IT WAS FIRST REPORTAGE : BROADCAST ON MATIONAL WAS CH/TIOAL 2 r OF YOU, I KNEW YOu WOULD BE NOW--AS 7 SAID. I HAVE STUCIED YOUR i CASE THOR GLUIGHLY.- AND I MIGHT BE ABLE To #NO YOUR GHASTLY TRANSFORMATION ARE WILLING TO RISK YouR | # ” Let 4 .-- WHEN|I CANNOT. CONTROL THE CAANG, To MY Boppy! CAN You ‘END MY CUMSE?BéLiEVE IF ; es WE FOLLOW FORGIVE of THAT TUNNEL, My UNANNOUNCED YW I 1 WE WILL FIND INTRUSION, FOUND WHIT: \\ BOTH WHIT: EGXCELLENCIES-- |'LOCK’S RouTE \ LocK AWD BUT I HAVE MAOR. OF ECAPE! morLocK! we! IT'S A LONG, IF WE CAN GO To THE SURFACE AND CaAP- TURB THE O7HER POD-- THE ONE IDENTICAL TO THAT WHICH SPAWNED You... # BELIEVE YOUR MALADY CAN BE CuReo-- AND YOUR POWERS EVEN BR7APENED “ALTHOUGH YOU WOULO NEVER AGAIN BECOME | THEN MLVeSUE THEN ! Vai FOR quay L ANTICIPATED meal | ‘YOUR ORDERS, EXCEL- Fane TROOPS \ ARE SEARCHING \ THE 72/VW/EL! WHAT 16 IT’S ouR THAT BLARING BUILT-IN MARAIS SYSTEM! WE HAD HOPED IT'D NEVER BE ACTIVATED SINCE IT HAs | if MEANS ONE OF 70 mes? EITHER THERES BEEN A Mal: FUNCTION IN THE BYBTEM ... OR THE THOUSHT POLICE HAVE ap US AND ARE ATTACKING, |\/...ITS THE POLICE! 1 SHOULD GIVE US fy DON'T KNOW HOW -- BUT L CAN'T Say? THE ANSYVER. dk THEY 4AVE DIBCOVERED I ONLY KNOW WE MUST FRY! = ARE UNDER Ar mdcas I REPEAT, WE ARE UNDER ENEMY ATTACH S Y MOBILIZE ALL FORCES AT THE MAIN ENTRANCE ? TO S7oP THEMP DO YOU ee ENOUGH | : eh — \. Saiz WITHIN SECovos, WHAT ONCE WAS THE PROPERTY STAY WHERE yYOu'LL BE OF THE MEW YORM TRANSIT AUTHORITY BECOMES A JOIN MY SAFE MORLOCK! THEN, WHEN BEEHIVE OF ACTION, UNLIKE ANY SCENE EVER WIT THE BATTLE 5 BADE? NE6SED BY HARRIED COMMUTERS IN THE 70%... No! IT'S -- TOO LATE! HURRY MEN! Me I CAN FEBL THE IF WE CAN'T AOLO WE'LL i PRESSURE SURGING THEM AT THE ENTRANCE-- THEM, SIR! \ THROUGH MAY HES? OUR CAUSE |S 1087-7 rs z , [i ITS -- STARTING TO : AGAIN! HELPME:- us PWE'LL DI TRYING N y RATHER THAN LIVE IN AGVOR= ANCE ON THE SURFACE ABOVE!BUT 1 CANNOT ALLOW IT 70 BE THE END OF reat MIDNIGHT THE ARMY FROM ABOVE! Te FINAL, mine FUL ye MAY GOD GRANT HOPE--MORLOCK, -- DEAD! OUR SINGLE REFUGE ON BARTH MYSELF AND MY. Phat FOLLOWERS ALONG WITH IT! 1 WITH THE PRESSING OF THIS Bu/770/-- ALL HOPE FOR FREE-THINKING MANKIND IS ENDED! YET-- BETTER DEATH THAN SLAVERY ON THE SURFACE! 7 Act unirs! mys 1s “1? THE MIDNIGHT MAN! RETREAT “TO SECTOR : TWO! : OO Bs i eho IT ON THE MENT (847 INSTEAD; ANP FIND OLIT FOR YOURSELF!