Five-Score Comic Monthly #20

In a dusty South American town, photographer Ben Martin stumbles upon a strange, flying four-legged alien creature—what he calls a "bronc"—and a crashed spaceship containing an injured pilot. The pilot urgently signals that Ben must ride the bronc back to the old corral, the ship’s hidden landing site, before it’s too late.

In the shadow of a millennium-old city’s anniversary, long-forgotten events from *The Crimson Folio* begin to unfold with eerie precision—prophecies once thought myth now haunting the streets. For Jo, the last descendant of the doomed figure written in the book’s final page, the past is no longer just history—it’s a countdown.

In "The Case of the Stolen Earth-Faces!" from Five-Score Comic Monthly #20 (1959), a shape-shifting alien infiltrates a quiet town, turning every man into a perfect copy of himself to hide in plain sight while hunting a vital element for his invading force. With no one able to tell friend from foe, the town’s normal order unravels as suspicion spreads and the true identity of the imposter remains hidden.

When a seemingly ordinary pencil begins scrawling urgent warnings in the lab, Jo and the team of scientists scrambling to perfect teleportation find themselves facing a mystery that defies explanation—messages that seem to know their next move, and a threat from beyond the known dimensions.

Thor Larkin, stranded after a crash-landing, is mistaken for a long-lost ancestor by a remote fishing community. Taken in by scientists, he becomes an unwitting subject in an experimental matter transporter—pushing the limits of science and his own survival.