Dates
- Cover date
- July 1959
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Hunter's Prey! · 7 pages
Max Prine is proud of capturing wild animals for zoos and circuses but his wife is not so sure. Returning from a hunt one day he sees his wife being abducted by aliens. He follows but is caught in an electrified trap. He wakes up in a cage and his wife tells him the aliens are collecting animals, including them, to take back to their world. They escape and are chased relentlessly by the aliens up a hill. Max turns the tables on the aliens by causing a landslide. Four aliens survive and they quickly escape in their rocket. Max releases the animals and tells Lana he is changing his job.
- The Power of Gru-Gru · 7 pages
A Rajah has an idol of the great Gru Gru that allows anyone who has it to make 5 wishes that will come true. While touring a cereal factory in America, he loses it in one of the vats and it gets packaged in a outgoing box. A young boy finds it while eating breakfast and thinks it's a toy not realizing it will grant him wishes.
- The Weavers of Doom! · 6 pages
A greedy unscrupulous business man encounters the real life Norns (three ancient woman who weave the fates of humanity). Each Norn weaves images from the past, present, and future. He tries to get the Norn that weaves the future to weave him secrets of the stock market so he can be rich. He steals the tapestry and flees not realizing that she didn't finish weaving the future and weaved an image of his train crashing.
- The Message · 6 pages
Jorgg Wendt is one of Earth's most brilliant scientists. He starts building a machine responding to voices he hears. He is unable to tell anyone what he is building as he does not know. He tries to destroy the machine but cannot and faints. Another message comes through. Gyrok tells him that he has been sending the messages and that the machine is a defense machine which he is not allowed to build on his own world. Reassured Wendt finishes the machine but he has been tricked and it is actually a transporter which brings Gyrok and his people to Earth.
Reprinted in
Creepy Worlds (1962), Out of This World (1961), Uncanny Tales (1963), Race for the Moon (1962), Forbidden Worlds (1951), Five-Score Comic Monthly (1961), Century Comic (1961), Weird Planets (1962), Out of This World (1963), PS Artbooks Softee: Adventures into the Unknown (2020)