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Unusual Tales #9
This anthology issue presents "The Night of Red Snow," in which a group of townspeople recall their mysterious encounter with a man named Sam Snyder who sold his house and vanished, followed by a peculiar night of red snow that fell over their city. The story reveals that Snyder was a scientist conducting experiments with a cyclotron energy lab, and a young boy named David is accidentally exposed to the machine's power, gaining superhuman abilities including shrinking and growing to enormous size. When David's mother discovers his newfound powers, he saves her life by using his abilities to prevent a fatal accident, though the origin of his extraordinary transformation remains connected to Snyder's mysterious disappearance and the unexplained red snow phenomenon.