Porky's ego wouldn't stay in his own body, and that, believe it or not, was what saved the city!

Today's story is "The Man who Saved New York" by Ray Cummings. It appeared in the July 1943 issue of "Science Fiction Stories" on pages 69 to 78.

Ray Cummings (born Raymond King Cummings) (August 30, 1887, New York, New York – January 23, 1957, Mount Vernon, New York) was an American author of science fiction literature and comic books.

From 1914 to 1919, he worked with Thomas Edison as a personal assistant, where he arranged phonograph record albums and wrote labels for Edison Records.

Cummings is identified as one of the "founding fathers" of the science fiction genre. His most highly regarded fictional work was the novel "The Girl in the Golden Atom" published in 1922, which was a consolidation of a short story of the same name (in which he combined idea of Fitz James O'Brien's The Diamond Lens with H. G. Wells's The Time Machine,) and a sequel, "The People of the Golden Atom."

He recycled the plot of "The Girl in the Golden Atom" for a two-part Captain America tale, "Princess of the Atom" (Captain America Comics #25 & #26.)

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