Ghostly Weird Stories #122

In 2253, Commander Ben Woodruff leads a Galactic Fleet expedition toward Orion to investigate a star about to go supernova, but his crew sees only a stern, distant commander haunted by thoughts of his wife Wendra back on Earth. When the ship is caught in a meteor shower and later pulled into the star's catastrophic gravitational field, the crew fights desperately to escape—but the vessel hurtles toward inevitable destruction. As the star's terrible power consumes the ship and crew, Wendra wakes on Earth seized by an inexplicable dread, knowing something has gone terribly wrong.

When Carl McRae comes home to find his wife Shirley has lost her job as a dancer, their already strained marriage reaches a breaking point—financial ruin and resentment boiling over in their suburban home. After Shirley takes pills to calm her nerves, something dark takes hold, and Carl dies under mysterious circumstances, forcing Inspector Roc to unravel a case where desperation and underlying evil collide.

When Danny Corbet is killed by a criminal organization, his brother Bruce assumes a masked vigilante identity to hunt down those responsible—and the mysterious leader known as the Limping Devil. With vengeance burning and a secret formula at stake, The Mask wages a brutal one-man war against the criminal underworld, culminating in a desperate aerial pursuit that will determine the fate of his enemies.