Although the original art on vellum is signed by Romita Nick Caputo suspects Romita either provided corrections or a cover rough for Larry Lieber to complete. Giacoia inks also by Nick.
A greedy businessman bullies a scientist into giving him a device that can give humans the 1,000-year lifespan of a giant redwood. He ignores the scientist's warnings and uses the ray on himself alone in his mansion, finding to his horror that the ray also renders its subject as immobile as a redwood.