Mystery in Space #6
DC's Mystery in Space #6 from 1952 delivers a genuinely unsettling vision of science-fiction dread: a horse and rider appear to be dissolving into dripping, molten masses before a skyline bathed in eerie orange light, while a group of horrified onlookers in the foreground stare in disbelief. The cover, penciled by Carmine Infantino and inked by Joe Giella, frames it all around the chilling question — "Is there any escape from the most amazing weapon of all time?" — teasing the featured story, "The Day the World Melted." For fans of 1952-era science fiction at its most imaginative and strange, this issue captures everything that made DC's "Strange Stories of the Future" banner so compelling.
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Professor Mason Halloway has perfected a time machine, which he sets for 1000 years into the future. Upon arrival he finds a barren scorched earth, and believes he has miscalculated, arriving 1000 years in the past. Several humans appear, speaking in English, and Halloway explains his apparent error. In fact, it is the year 2952, and the group leader explains that the Roentgen ray, initially so beneficial in curing diseases, eventually built up in the atmosphere and destroyed the ecosystem.
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