1st Issue Special Vol 1 #10 - The Outsiders

Doc Scary comes upon his team of outcasts the Outsiders—the Amazing Ronnie, Lizard Johnny, Hairy Larry, and Mighty Mary—in their headquarters, watching a television broadcast of a confrontation between one of their fellow "freaks" and the citizens of the town of Lynnville. Jumping aboard Larry's vehicle, the Outsiders arrive in Lynnville to find an large-headed boy named Billy under fruitless attack. The citizens turn on the Outsiders, who defend themselves with their unique physiologies and drive off their attackers. With the threat extinguished, Larry suggests they introduce themselves to their readers.

Fisherman Ahab Smith catches a small lizard-human hybrid and delivers the creature to a hospital. After two days, the future Lizard Johnny has grown six inches, and one doctor sees him as an abomination and seeks to kill him. The doctor is opposed by his coworker Doctor Goodie and is truck by the lizard's tongue during their struggle, rendering him unconscious while Goodie flees with Johnny.

In Lynnville, two men storm into Lundy's Tailor Shop, seeking to steal Old Man Lundy's life savings at gunpoint. When they try to search a trapdoor in the shop floor, the old man struggles and is shot to death. The men enter the trap door to find Billy, Lundy's son, and are horrified by his appearance. They strike his head but have no effect, instead setting him and the shop on fire. Billy escapes only to be set upon by a mob of townsfolk, fleeing to water to extinguish the flames.

In 1970, Doctor Goodie and Colonel Markie travel aboard the supposedly-unmanned United States space probe Alpha Zero to Venus, where they seek to investigate and exploit lasers signals with the potential to cancer and other ills. Instead, a magnetic force causes the rocket to crash on Venus, where Goodie is surgically reconstructed by aliens with cybernetic limbs and a face in their likeness. Two years later, the Alpha Zero is found on Earth with Goodie on board. In a military hospital, he discovers both his augmentations and disfigurement. Months later, Goodie wears a mask in his old likeness to work at Ronkite Medical Complex, where his augmented hands have made him a world-famous surgeon. Twenty stories below the hospital, Goodie enters a private suite he shares with the Outsiders and removes his mask, insisting that Mighty Mary call him Doctor Scary when he is without it to protect his identity. Joining the Outsiders, now with Billy among their number, he finds them watching a television broadcast of a confrontation between a "flaming freak" and the citizens of the town of Luckless.