Planet Comics #8

When Earth Council sends Commander Thord Steele to investigate the mysterious disappearance of Doctor Terrod on the alien world Zuron—twenty-five years after contact was lost—an advance scouting party returns with a harrowing tale of hostile terrain and savage creatures. But Steele discovers the truth hidden in a concealed micro-camera, revealing that the expedition's story doesn't match what really happened on that strange planet. What the team actually found, and why they've lied about it, sets Steele on a collision course with forces far more complex than he anticipated.

A deactivated robot awakens in a scrap heap after centuries of dormancy, and recounts to a curious boy the tragic history of his kind—how they evolved from simple machines into thinking beings, fought humanity's wars, and were ultimately hunted down and destroyed simply for wanting equality. As the robot shares memories of a civilization that might have been, the boy begins to understand what was lost when fear triumphed over reason.

Kirk Reynolds, a courier for the Galactic Republic, lands his ship on the uncharted asteroid Q-7Y for exploration—only to discover that the microscopic civilization living there views him as a towering, unstoppable invader. As the panicked Micromen mobilize their army and weapons to defend their world, Zane, their young military commander, must rally his people to survive what they believe is an alien catastrophe.

When Earth's scientists deploy the revolutionary M-3 robots to mine Kolybderium on the hostile Planetoid X, the mechanical workers suddenly turn violent—but Professor Besselink and his daughter Jane discover the robots aren't rebelling on their own. A sinister force from Saturn has hijacked the machines, forcing Besselink to race against time to free his creations from alien control before an invading Saturnian force uses them to conquer Earth's defenses. In "Perils of Planetoid X," science becomes both humanity's greatest weapon and its most dangerous vulnerability.