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** ''Haunt of Fear'''s "Horror We? How's Bayou" is about a pair of psychopathic brothers who lure travelers to their hut and dismember them. After a doctor becomes their latest victim, the remains of the unfortunate the brothers dumped in the swamp coalesce and rise as vengeful zombies with their body parts horribly mixed up. They than find the smarter of the evil duo...and give him a twisted surgical makeover with the dead doctor's equipment, turning him into a suffering, mangled abomination of dislocated parts.
** The same issue also has "Gorilla My Dreams", where a businessman is kidnapped by an insane doctor who transplants his brain into the body of a gorilla. When the gorilla man wakes up, he's obviously ''terrified'' to see his human corpse lying across from his new body, and his thrashing gives the doctor a fatal heart attack. Eventually his former body is discovered and his family [[MistakenForOwnMurderer believes the gorilla killed him.]] In the end he opts to join a travelling circus and [[TearJerker his children visit to yell at him for murdering their daddy.]] Apparently this story was an inspiration for DC's own tragic monster hero, ComicBook/SwampThing.
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* Unsurprisingly, Creator/ECComics had a copious amount of it throughout their horror titles, usually the result of people seeking shady medical treatments.
** The ''Tales From The Crypt'' story "Bats In My Belfry" follows a man who fears he's going deaf. He seeks out a mysterious doctor who provides transplants from animals to humans. Of course, he gets a bat's echolocation and the rest of the comic has him slowly transforming into a human-bat hybrid, then feeding on his conniving wife and her lover when they plot to murder him.
** From ''Vault Of Horror'', "Strictly From Hunger" has a poor schmuck named Pete approach a hermit witch to cure his terminal cancer. She casts a spell that will ensure he won't die. Unfortunately, this allows his cancer cells to run rampant through his body and he gradually mutates into [[BlobMonster a flesh-eating blob]] that the townspeople have to bury in a cave-in because it can't die.

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* ''ComicBook/ArtOps'': Scarlett infects several works of art (specifically, Michelangelo's David, Cherubs from Raphael's Sistine Madonna, and the Statue Of Liberty) with a disease that deforms them into lumpy monstrous versions of themselves.
* ''ComicBook/TheBeauty'': Anyone who gets infected with The Beauty will have their body changed to become conventionally beautiful. [[spoiler:800 days later, they spontaneously combust from the inside.]]
** Anyone who gets the cure for The Beauty[[spoiler:, like Detective Vaughn]], ends up looking like a severe burn victim.

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* ''ComicBook/ArtOps'': Scarlett infects several works of art (specifically, Michelangelo's David, Cherubs from Raphael's Sistine Madonna, and the Statue Of of Liberty) with a disease that deforms them into lumpy monstrous versions of themselves.
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Anyone who gets infected with The Beauty will have their body changed to become conventionally beautiful. [[spoiler:800 days later, they spontaneously combust from the inside.]]
** Anyone who gets the cure for The Beauty[[spoiler:, like Beauty, [[spoiler:like Detective Vaughn]], ends up looking like a severe burn victim.



* Charles Burns' ''ComicBook/BlackHole''. The entire graphic novel centers around teenagers who are tragically mutated and disfigured by a fictional sexually-transmitted disease.
* ComicBook/{{Classwar}}: "''Uh ... it appears my left leg has just '''eaten''' your dog''."

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* Charles Burns' ''ComicBook/BlackHole''. The entire graphic novel ''ComicBook/BlackHole'' centers around teenagers who are tragically mutated and disfigured by a fictional sexually-transmitted sexually transmitted disease.
* ComicBook/{{Classwar}}: "''Uh ... ''ComicBook/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':
** When Warren Mears is brought back in Season 8, he's still without skin. It goes FromBadToWorse when Buffy destroys the Seed of Wonder, wiping out magic and negating the spells holding Warren together, causing him to collapse into a pile of gore.
** Mohra Demon blood has regenerative powers, which was being sold to injured humans. As a result of magic being gone in Season 9, the blood has a nasty side effect of causing unstoppable cell regeneration. Those exposed to it started to grow giant tumors all over their bodies that wouldn't stop growing.
* ''ComicBook/{{Classwar}}'': "Uh ...
it appears my left leg has just '''eaten''' your dog''.dog."
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** ''ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'' introduces Empurata, a technique employed by the old and corrupt Senate. Basically, they have the head and hands of the victim removed and replaced with boxy cycloptic heads and claws or clamps for the hands. A few of the big named characters suffered this, notably Whirl [[spoiler:and Shockwave]].

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* In ''ComicBook/EightBillionGenies'', a woman who makes a wish to "be one with the sea" is turned into a gigantic squid/whale/fish/mermaid creature as a result. She is thrilled at first as it allows her to freely explore the ocean, but eventually gets lonely...
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* ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'': The premise of ''The Visible Man'' is of an ex-soldier who gains partial {{Invisibility}} from a freak accident involving [[ILoveNuclearPower nuclear waste]] so that all his internal organs are showing. People shriek in terror at the mere sight of him.

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* ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'': The premise of ''The Visible Man'' is of an ex-soldier who gains partial {{Invisibility}} from a freak accident involving [[ILoveNuclearPower [[RadiationInducedSuperpowers nuclear waste]] so that all his internal organs are showing. People shriek in terror at the mere sight of him.

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