Five-Score Plus Comic Monthly #26

In "The Case of the Martian Witness!" from Five-Score Plus Comic Monthly #26 (1960), private detective Star takes on a case that leads him from Earth’s urban sprawl to the eerie, alien Red Jungle of Vesta, an asteroid mining colony. With his wits sharpened and a robot secretary named Ilda long since pawned, Star must navigate the strange, sentient flora of the Red Jungle to track down a fugitive thought to be hiding among the crimson vines.

In "The Man Who Created Himself!", Frank Barrows finds himself at the center of a temporal paradox when he awakens to a voice declaring the future depends on him. Determined to help, he builds an android duplicate of himself and sends it forward in time, where the two can communicate across the years—only to discover that the future is in peril from alien light-beings consuming argon and releasing deadly monargon. With time running short, Frank must use his wits and a single atomic trick to turn the tide, all while the android—his own reflection in another era—watches and waits.

In "The Duplicate Doom!", a strange phenomenon splits a county in two, each side grappling with the same enigma—until a mysterious man appears on both sides, asking how the townspeople would eliminate it. The answers, surprisingly, come true in ways both odd and unsettling, as if the world itself is playing along with a cosmic wager.

In "The Creature City," Mark and Elsa investigate eerie attacks on a quiet town, only to be caught in a mysterious shell that transforms them into shadows and flings them into a hidden dimension. There, they discover the missing townspeople—and as Mark begins gathering weapons, the line between hero and fugitive blurs.

In "The Boy Who Saved the Earth!", a young boy stumbles upon a tiny alien craft just as an invasion force from the distant world of Kadar-Zee prepares to descend upon Earth. Unaware of the true threat, he treats the advance ship as a curious toy—until the fate of the planet hinges on his innocence and courage.

In "The Man Who Hated Science!", Professor Mason Halloway travels a thousand years into the future, only to find a world scorched and lifeless—believing he’s arrived in the past. When a group of survivors appears, speaking English, he learns he’s actually in 2952, where the very scientific advancement he championed—the Roentgen ray—ultimately led to ecological collapse.

In "Secret of the Strange Satellite!", Warren Keith runs a lunar tourist attraction on Io, showcasing bizarre space phenomena to curious Mercurian visitors—until their fascination takes a dangerous turn. When one of the exhibits becomes central to a secret plan, Keith must uncover the truth before the Mercurians turn the moon into a launchpad for galactic domination.

In "The Spirits in the Smoke," Martin Hawks, the last descendant of Chief Tihuaki, sets out to reclaim an ancient Indian pipe said to summon spirits from legend. When the pipe is stolen from display and the spirits begin to appear once more, Hawks must fly his plane, the Silver Arrow, to confront the supernatural forces tied to the past.