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- 68
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- The Half Men · 7 pages
- Menace Below! · 4 pages
Karlin is being shown US weapons but is told he can't see a new underwater device. Karlin sneaks back at night in a diving suit to examine the device, not realizing its a new anti-frog man mine which will explode at the slightest touch.
- The Very Old Man · 4 pages
- The Lead-Lined Box! · 3 pages
Hans brings Hugo a newborn in a lead-lined box which Hugo places beneath his memory-visualizer, hoping to prove newborns have purity within them, but all he sees are images of man's hatred toward others. Hugo destroys his device so no one else will know, not realizing the "newborn" in the box is a newborn puppy.
- The Brain Trap! · 4 pages
Henry accidentally creates a hair growth formula and looks for a business partner, only to discover the formula has also given him telepathy and Bolton wants him dead. The telepathy helps Henry save his life and then he destroys the formula.
- Escape from Nowhere! · 3 pages
- Forbidden! · 3 pages
- Hiding Place · 4 pages
Morton's new camera picks up images of alien men. He thinks the infra-red film is picking up invisible beings but actually the aliens are tiny and hiding inside his camera.
- The Mind-Reader · 2 pages
A real estate agent gains telepathy from a magic paper weight.
- When the Creature Escapes · 4 pages
A sea creature is captured and brought to an atomic testing facility. It attempts to communicate telepathically with the man who brought it there, but the man thinks it is evil and resists it. When it gets out of the tank, the man acquires a gun and hunts it down to kill it. After he does so, he encounters scientists who tell him that the creature shut down an out of control atomic pile saving all of their lives.
- The Amazing Bardini · 4 pages
- The Alchemist's Apprentice · 4 pages
An alchemist's apprentice from the middle ages is jeered at because he is oafish and desires to learn alchemy so he will no longer be mocked. When he hears his master and his friends coming to laugh at him, he grabs the wrong vial in trying to finish an experiment and the resulting explosion blows him to the moon where the moon people set him up as ruler.
- What Happened to Hassen? · 4 pages
- The Secret Room · 4 pages
- Dead End · 4 pages
- Who Lurks Down There · 4 pages
Jaime finds a city on the bottom of the ocean where Ponce de Leon lives, having found the water there grants immortal youth. Jaime drinks the water himself and wants to share it with others, but de Leon refuses and imprisons him. Jaime escapes and tells others of his discovery, but having left the underwater city Jaime's youth has deserted him - now he's an old man.
- The Two-Faced Man · 3 pages
A stagehand of the play Cyrano De Bergerac is in love with the leading lady so he resolves to knock out the leading man and don his makeup so he can get close enough to her to confess his feelings. She doesn't notice that he is a different man so when he asks her for a kiss, she refuses and says that she is in love with the stagehand. He exclaims that he is the stagehand, but when he tries to remove the false nose, he finds that he cannot.