Gwandanaland Comics #2331-A

In "Stranger in the House," a family’s quiet evening unravels when a soldier appears in their living room, imposing strict rules with unnerving calm—only to reveal the strange truth behind the sudden intrusion. Written by a longtime fan of the series and illustrated by the acclaimed interior artist, this eerie, intimate tale blurs the line between reality and play with quiet precision.

In "The Mirage," a man escapes jail on the edge of a vast desert, his only hope a canteen and a makeshift compass. As he stumbles through the shifting dunes, heat and thirst warp his vision—until he sees an oasis, its shimmering waters and figures of beautiful women beckoning. He knows it must be a trick of the sun, yet the image lingers as he presses on, driven by the faint hope of survival. After he walks away, the women at the oasis glance after him, wondering why he didn’t stay.

When a boy sneaks aboard a rocketship bound for the stars, the crew is furious—until they realize he’s the only one small enough to crawl into the ship’s damaged duct and repair it mid-flight. In this tight, tense five-page tale from Gwandanaland Comics #2331-A, a moment of panic turns into unexpected teamwork.

In "A Dreamer's World," a test pilot awakens to find a Viking sailor and a young woman waiting outside his cockpit—only to learn he’s stumbled into a realm where the dead and the dreaming converge. When the woman insists she’s not dead, he realizes she may be in peril, and the two make a desperate dash back to the jet. Once safely landed, she’s found unconscious in a room filled with smoldering chemicals, and when she wakes, she knows him from a vision she never lived.

In "Night Call," a doctor answers a mysterious midnight call that leads him through thick fog to an isolated log cabin. There, he tends to a sick man under strange circumstances, only to discover, when he returns, that more than 150 years have passed.

In "The Strange Fate of Captain Fenton," a tyrannical sea captain meets a twisted turn of fortune when he casts a crewmate’s totem overboard, only to survive a storm by washing ashore on an island where the natives revere him as divine. His reign of cruelty soon unravels when the very totem he discarded washes up on the beach, igniting a quiet fury among the people he once ruled.

In "Look Deep Into My Eyes," a struggling hypnotist discovers he’s the heir to a line of ancient sorcerers seeking to pass on their dark power. As the ritual begins and the spirits close in, a sudden interruption from a woman shatters the connection—leaving him caught between worlds, unsure what’s real.

In "The Garden of Time," a weary man stumbles into a forgotten garden and finds himself swept back to the medieval ages, where he meets a woman whose presence stirs something long dormant. When he returns to the present, he discovers a deep connection to her descendant—caught between two eras, bound by a love that defies time.

In "The Talking Dog," a man on the edge of a painful decision to divorce his wife returns to his childhood home, only to be met by the ghost of his long-dead dog, Toby. The dog, speaking with surprising clarity, urges him to reconsider his choice, stirring memories and emotions he thought were buried.

In "Madman at Large," a lone driver picks up a hitchhiker during a storm, the radio crackling with news of a recently escaped killer. As paranoia sets in and the road stretches on, the tension mounts—until the truth twists in a way that redefines who’s chasing whom.

In "Second Hand," Jo stumbles upon a strange coat that, when worn, sends them hurtling into a parallel world—where they’re instantly replaced by a version of themselves from that realm. The twist? No one remembers who they were before the swap, and the coat’s true purpose remains hidden.

In "The King of Planetoid X," curiosity sweeps the galaxy as beings from distant worlds wonder how a single ruler maintains peace across a planet untouched by war. The truth, revealed with quiet precision, is that the king’s subjects are not people at all—just obedient robots, their harmony a product of design, not choice.

In "Adrift in Space," a captain is cast out by his crew for refusing to return to Earth, only to be found again when the crew discovers his notes revealing the planet is now uninhabitable. The story unfolds as the crew grapples with the truth of what they've lost—and what they might still be capable of.

In "The Half Men," three fractured men set out to build a submarine capable of tunneling through bedrock, driven by a need to escape their pasts. When they test it beneath the ocean floor, they stumble upon a hidden civilization of sorcerers exiled from the surface world—where their magic is both feared and forbidden. The sorcerers, in turn, offer the men something unexpected: healing, not just of bodies, but of wounds long buried.

In "Saucer-itis!", a man’s odd behavior—rambling about flying saucers—has everyone convinced he’s crazy. But as he insists on the truth, his wild claims may be the only thing keeping the real ones hidden.

In "The Strange One," a lone man stumbles ashore on an isolated island, only to discover the ruins of a forgotten futuristic city. As he flees from eerie whispers echoing through empty streets, he begins to suspect the voices aren’t coming from the wreckage—but from something he can’t see.

In "The Ganymede Enigma," a reclusive millionaire ventures to one of Jupiter's moons in his private vessel, drawn by the promise of solitude and discovery. What he finds instead is a hidden world where human-like robots labor under the unseen authority of the Jupiterians, raising questions about who truly rules the outer reaches of the solar system.

In "The Barrier Clouds of Venus," Earth's explorers uncover a startling truth: a vast, artificial cloud encircling Venus, erected by Martians to contain the warlike Venusians and prevent galactic conflict. The discovery forces the explorers to confront the fragile balance of power between the three worlds—and the hidden costs of peace.

In "The Stranger," a curious teen forms an unexpected bond with a mysterious man who appears after a meteor strikes nearby. The man claims to see glimpses of the future, sharing quiet revelations that leave the teen both awed and unsettled. When the teen tries to bring the townspeople to meet him, the man vanishes—leaving behind only the mystery of his true origin.

In "The Strange Island," a weary sailor washes ashore on a forgotten land, drawn in by the mystery of its ruins and the sudden, startling presence of a woman he saves from pirates. As he begins to piece together the island’s secrets, he’s haunted by the truth that the very ground beneath him vanished two centuries ago—leaving him to wonder what it means to belong to a place that no longer exists.

In "Come! See the Flying Saucer!", two con artists set up a carnival act with a fake flying saucer and a cheap alien costume, hoping to swindle gullible crowds—until they realize too late that real extraterrestrials are watching, and their hoax might just be the last thing they ever see.

In "The Man who Didn't Belong," a quiet office worker begins to notice strange patterns in the behavior of his enigmatic colleague—someone who seems to know things before they happen. When the truth emerges, it’s not just a trick of perception but a startling reality: his coworker is a visitor from another dimension, stranded on Earth, and now must return when his own kind arrives to reclaim him.

In "Hail, Hero," the first human to reach Mars returns home as a celebrated hero—only to vanish into a time warp and wake up 400 years later, in a future where his legacy has shaped the fate of humanity. Stranded in a world that remembers him as a unifying force, he must confront the weight of a fame he never asked for, and the truth behind the legend he’s become.

In the Window, a haunting tale from Gwandanaland Comics #2331-A, centers on a mysterious sideshow figure sealed in a glass box—half man, half mannequin, a spectacle that draws crowds and stirs unease. When a thief targets the carnival, he’s driven not just by greed but by a chilling need to confirm the truth: is the figure real, or is it the only witness to his crime?

In "The Brain of Professor Mandel," the brilliant but aging scientist makes a desperate bid to outlive death by transferring his mind into a supercomputer—only to discover that their fates are irrevocably linked. When Mandel passes, the machine follows, collapsing in a final, silent shutdown that erases everything it once held.

In "The Stranger from Space," a Venusian fugitive flees his dying world after unleashing a cloud machine that devastated his planet, only to attempt the same destruction on Earth—until he's captured by interplanetary enforcers tracking his trail. Left behind, his machine is repurposed by Earth's people, who use it to bring rain and end long-standing droughts.

In "The Antarctic Monster," a colossal robot-shaped spaceship from Neptune descends upon the icy wastes of Antarctica, terrifying a team of polar explorers who believe they've encountered a monstrous creature. As the Neptunians emerge, the explorers flee, but the robot's weight proves too much for the fragile ice—cracking beneath it and sending the alien vessel plunging into the dark, freezing waters of the Weddel Sea.

In "The Rain Maker," an aging inventor has perfected a machine that brings rain to a parched land, but his quiet life is disrupted when a greedy businessman and his assistant arrive, eager to seize the device for profit. When the old man refuses, he activates a second invention—one that freezes his intruders in place, leaving them trapped in their own greed.

In "Journey into the Mind," a scientist and his colleague pilot a revolutionary machine to explore the inner world of a writer—only to find themselves stranded in a surreal dreamscape where lunar landscapes teem with colossal, alien octopuses. The line between imagination and reality blurs as they navigate this strange mental realm, confronting the unexpected and the uncanny.

In "The Man with the Hairy Glove," an archaeologist awakens a long-dead king’s spirit, only to find himself cursed with a golden touch—each contact turning life to gold. Now desperate, he must have a glove crafted from his own hair to contain the power before it consumes everything he knows.

In "Pirates from Future Time," a young couple searching for their way to town stumbles upon a mysterious time-traveling ship, only to find themselves captured by a band of alien criminals. The story unfolds as the travelers are pulled into a high-stakes chase across eras, with no clear escape in sight.