Astounding Stories #60

In the Pacific, the Heli-Carrier Fury and Jimmy Woo crash-land on a mysterious volcanic island where time seems to have stopped—once a forgotten jungle paradise, now a twisted Garden of Eden and secret lab run by the reclusive scientist Centurius. Once dismissed in the 1930s for his radical ideas, Centurius has spent decades breeding extinct and alien lifeforms, and now plans to unleash a fiery apocalypse to remake the world. With the help of a visiting film crew and their oversized robot gorilla prop, Fury and Woo must stop him before the skies open and the earth burns.

In "The Dark Side of the Moon!", scientists make a startling discovery when they bounce a radar beam off the moon—man's first contact in outer space. The moment marks a leap in human understanding, but the silence from the lunar surface hints at something far more mysterious than mere distance.