Adventures into the Unknown #72

Mike Stevenson keeps dreaming of his late Grandpa Stevenson, a visionary rocket scientist who urged him to follow his dreams rather than settle for practical invention—and now these dreams are becoming dangerously real. When Mike's rotor experiment succeeds beyond his expectations, his grandfather's ghost whisks him away on a cosmic journey to show him the wonders of space and a mysterious planet that holds a secret the world desperately needs. As Mike struggles to separate dream from reality, he'll discover whether his grandfather's decades-old ambitions have been waiting for him all along.

Professor Arthur Connors's revolutionary theory—that a man is only what he eats—takes on terrifying proportions when he raises his young son Jim on an experimental diet of unconventional foods, unlocking superhuman abilities that isolate the boy from everyone around him. As Jim's extraordinary intellect and physical prowess grow, he discovers he can read minds, setting him apart as a misfit even among those who admire his genius. Desperate for normal human connection, Jim finds unexpected companionship with Stella Fraser at the laboratory—but his unwanted abilities threaten to destroy the one relationship that might save him from his crushing loneliness.

Dr. Hans Ulrich discovers a miraculous plant with extraordinary healing powers, but when his greedy assistant Karl Kastorp learns the secret after Ulrich's death, he decides to keep the discovery for himself—using it to build a lucrative "healing" practice that caters only to the wealthy. As Karl's reputation grows and his fortune swells, his greed sets him on a collision course with forces far beyond his control, including a desperate plea from Sultan Rashnamira to heal his wife, the Sultana.