Mystery in Space #63

In "The Weapon That Swallowed Men!" from Mystery in Space #63 (1960), Adam Strange faces a terrifying alien threat on Rann when the invaders deploy vacuumizers that disintegrate entire armies into gas. With only nine days to devise a strategy, Adam returns to a changed Rann—where the people are restored but the city's leader, Ranagar, is gone—and discovers the key lies in the weapon’s limitation: it targets only one element at a time. Using clever tactics and the Ranagarians’ diverse metallic coverings, Adam turns the tide in a desperate bid to reclaim his world.