pi rear] THEN: The Thing — on alien organism capable of infecting, Pencils and assuming the form of, any living creature — was * dhicovered bribe fiezen wreckage‘of un uxciest PCa specmsat AN (ots ud outst Fou new victims with a touch, The Thing attacked the 12 ie 9 men of the U.S. Antarctic Research Outpost #31, killing all but two: MacReady and Childs. Sometime later, a Navy SEAL toam, led by Robert Jones Us ; Commander Erskine arrived. The SEALs doubted hard Starkings MocReady’s story of a monster from outer space, but Colors before long Erskino’s own men become infocted by The Thing — und the infection spread to an Argentine DTA) outpost many miles away. Pain The Thing, in Erskine’s guise, arranged a rendezvous with an American submarine ot a nearby bay. CTT SC] MacReady and Childs boarded the sub just before it ereye submerged, but the, by now, monstrous Thing caused a the boat fo groend liself on an underwater ledge. BT ies In « last-ditch effort to dostroy The Thing, Childs blew ern the sub’s hatches — flooding the interior with tons of a near-freezing sea water. Steven Birch Apparently the only survivor, MacReady was rescved by the Argentines and evacuated to a research station Pea cet in Tiorra del Fuego. Unfortunately, ane af the evac team was infected by The Thing — which had also survived the sub's destruction. Freed from the cold that had effectively held it prisoner for 1s jesiows dir. 7 a million years, The Thing began to spread to new Sues Le ui bodies. The base's personnel to suspect one another, Fc eeg arial and MacReady — a situation that made it difficult to Saran creel fight the horrifying new manifestations of The Thing. See a Sg The sudden appearance of Childs, apparently alive and well, in the comopny of a U.S. Navy combat team, gave the beleagured group new hope of destroying The Thing and getting back to civilzation olive. But those hopes were dashed when o test designed to flush aut those infected by The Thing indicated that MacReady himself was infected! NOW: Antordl ene RE ertyro MOMENT. I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF YOUR CRAP. ‘OKAY?CREATURE, 1 DONT GET IT. IE WE'RE ALL HUMAN, WHY Ae YOU, CONFINING Us TE WE HAVENT “ANYTT YEEBY, Gc AREUE Your } POSITION.1 BONT, THINK PLANTS a CAN BE MONSTER Just By INFECTED: TOUCHING Thm AV BE ONE OF THESE TREES wey, 1S INFECTED. NOL? T MEAN, PLANTS ARE Ab, OREST SWALLOWED US UP BY NOW?TSMARTED Ns. DIDNTTMERE WAS Ni A rani DEseapa. TA THEONLY ONE LE IN 5NO. 1 BO NOTJOR SABIA VIALE I= UNWILLING TO ie SMA A ACCEPT THAT THe ERIS. MAN, MackEADY, 15 NO MORE HE EVIDENCE ee (5 WOUNDED. EVEN DEEPER. 7S SILLY, OF COURSE: W ne aAceLy KNOWS THE MAD. COULEMT Teed You is Fes? oe7 AGAPITO. YOU OID 1 THE SAME THING LAST NIGHT. THAT WAS WHEN. We COULD NOT TELL Fo ow = WHGOWAS A CEMON J THAT WE HAVE ALL TESTED, . tl neSarive, WH ONT THEY SIMPLY FLY US ‘Our OF HERE. ARE BEING 100 WHAT DO YOU LosIcAL. Yo PLAN 70 QO; TAKE ON ALL THE ARMED. ane 17% INTEND TON FINS ouT” og \ WHAT IT stMIT! WHY DeAGAPITO?, a 1 THINK JHE STRAIN iS 'GETTING Tome.YOu WERE GOING To say Just, LIKE’ ME, CORRECT?, THING ALIVE, RE; | ‘fie MEER?LRU“CLIMATE OF FEAR” CONCLUDES NEXT 1S: