Dates
- Cover date
- March 1953
- On sale
- December 30, 1952
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Time and Tide · 5 pages
An engineer stows away on a rocket so he can take it to the moon. When he returns to Earth he finds he has gone back in time to medieval England in the 5th century of King Arthur's reign.
- Plaything · 4 pages
In the year 2053, war has become a thing of the past and man can use his talents to create his own destiny. Technology was used for peace and not war and disease had been eradicated. Suddenly natural and geological upheavals destroy civilization. What happened? It seems man is not in charge of his own destiny, for the Earth became a plaything for the son of a God; a ball to be tossed around for fun.
- The Purple Mists · 4 pages
Space pilot Rex King goes looking for his missing brother and lands on an uninhabited world. The world is covered in purple mist that is acidic and not only dissolves any ship that lands, but melts the flesh off humans making them look like skinless monstrosities. Rex learns this the hard way.
- Death Rides the Galaxy · 2 pages
- Jonah · 6 pages
A scientist invents a shrinking ray which accidentally shrinks his assistant Jonah to under an inch in height. The scientist eats a sandwich not realizing Jonah was hiding on it. Jonah is trapped in the scientist's mouth and tries to avoid being swallowed. He uses a laser to blast at the scientist's teeth. The scientist goes to the dentist to see what's causing the toothache. The dentist sees a tiny object but can't make out what it is. The scientist uses the reverse polarity of his shrinking ray to enlarge the object causing Jonah to explode out of his mouth.
- The Beginning or the End! · 5 pages
The war between Earth and Lexyl has been going on for generations. An Earth scientist builds a weapon that can destroy a planet. He plans on destroying Lexyl to end the war but is tricked into destroying Earth by Lexyl spies instead.
Reprinted in
Weird Mysteries (1952), Tales of Voodoo (1968), Strange Galaxy (1971), PS Artbooks Softee: Weird Tales of the Future (2020)