Dates
- Cover date
- September 1952
- On sale
- 1952
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Monster on Mars · 7 pages
After seven years of being stranded on Mars, Bob is asked by a giant hand from Venus for help against Mercurians (green humanoids with elongated arms and legs). After the Mercurians are defeated, the hand reveals its true form; Princess Teba. Teba is a shapeshifter who looks like a beautiful Earth woman and was being chased by the Mercurians who have invaded her homeworld. Bob agrees to return to Venus with her.
- The Slave Pits of Uranus · 6 pages
The evil Lord Kazmar of Uranus has ships invulnerable to Earth's weapons and demands Earth send him slaves to work the dangerous Lectium mines on the planet. He does this because the slaves he has are near death. Earthmen come to Uranus and the slaves give them weapons to defeat Kazmar's ships. The slaves then grab Kazmar and drag him down into the Lectium mines to die with them.
- Jumpin' Jupiter · 4 pages
Gzink thinks he is too handsome and needs to change to get a woman to stop chasing him so he asks Jumpin' Jupiter to make him uglier. The woman then falls for Jupiter.
- Frontiers of Tomorrow · 2 pages
An analysis of the problems of travelling to different planets.
- The Desert Castle · 6 pages
In the year 1995, Professor Cowles has invented a serum that can turn unliving matter to living matter. He accidently spills some living cells he created onto an empty suit of armor in the castle his laboratory is set up in. The suit comes to life and tries to kill him and his assistant. They destroy the suit by dissolving it with acid, but they notice the suit had a skeleton. They realize they just murdered a living being.
- Nightmare World · 4 pages
Herman uses a chemical to probe the world of the subconscious. When he enters the world everything seems serene until he encounters a grotesque monster that turns him into a monster. When he wakes up he finds that he has become the monster in the real world.
Reprinted in
The Life and Comics of Basil Wolverton (2014), Tales from the Tomb (1969), Weird Worlds (1970), Strange Galaxy (1971), Mr. Monster's Super Duper Special (1986), The 3-D Zone (1986), Basil Wolverton's Planet of Terror (1987), Weird Space (2000), The Horror! The Horror! Comic Books the Government Didn't Want You to Read! (2010), Four Color Fear: Forgotten Horror Comics of the 1950s (2010)