Comic where a baby kills its parents because it wanted to stay in the womb

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The story went like this: a baby is going to be born to some couple, and the mother believes the baby is murdering her and tells so to her family doctor, who says nothing. The baby is mad at the mom because he wanted to stay living in the womb.
Then the baby is born, and one day the father comes home and finds his wife dead on the floor. Again the doctor offers no opinion; then the father dies, and the doctor investigates and realizes that it must have been, indeed, the baby.
Then, aware that nobody is going to arrest the baby, the doctor himself decides to kill him (at the end of the comic it says "I brought this kid into the world and I'm gonna take it out"). I am not sure whether the baby instead kills the doctor.

LSerni · Accepted Answer

The comic you seek is probably Shock Suspenstories, issue 7 (1992) with a version by Evans of Ray Bradbury's short 1946 story "The Small Assassin". All of the elements you quote are in the story (the mother believing the baby is murdering her, the baby hating the parents for kicking him out of a warm, comfortable womb, the mom dying first, and the doctor resolving to kill the baby.
This is the ending you remember, including the "taking out" choice of words ("at the end of the comic it says I brought this kid into the world and I'm gonna take it out"):

The story is in a grey area between "science fiction", "fantasy" and "horror" (in my opinion, several Ray Bradbury's stories are). The premise is completely fictional since a newborn baby does not have the physical strength, nor the knowledge, to be aware of the murderous properties of gas leaks or sleeping pills and exploit them. Even so, The Small Assassin is usually included in Ray Bradbury's short science fiction collections, so I'd say it's SF of a sort.

Comic where a baby kills its parents because it wanted to stay in the womb

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