Dates
- Cover date
- May 1959
- On sale
- March 3, 1959
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Battle of the Moon Monsters! · 8.67 pages
After multiple expeditions to other worlds in our solar system, and multiple encounters with other forms of life, Earthmen find a new specimen on Saturn's moon, Titan.
- Frederich Wilhelm Struve · Giants of the Telescope · 1 pages
One page potted biography of the German astronomer Frederich Wilhelm Struve, one of the chief founders of Double-Star Astronomy.
- The Man Who Discovered the "Earth"! · 7.67 pages
An explorer finds a planet very similar to Earth except for some distinct differences. Attempting to bring its inhabitants technology from Earth, the explorer runs into roadblocks at every turn, until he sees the light.
- Lighthouse of Space! · 7.67 pages
The Kull are a peaceful people who have discovered random anti-matter blotches throughout space. To warn travelers of the blotches they station lighthouses in their vicinity. One of the lighthouses drifts into our solar system. Two Earthmen investigate the lighthouse and become prisoners when it is retrieved by the Zarran, enemies of the Kull. The Zarrans rig the lighthouse with crystals to absorb the deadly radiation from the blotches and beam it onto the Kull planet. The Earthmen help the Zarran defeat the effects of the radiation and are rewarded with knowledge to take back to Earth.
Reprinted in
Mystery in Space (1958), Five-Score Comic Monthly (1958), Race for the Moon (1962), From Beyond the Unknown (1969)