Secrets of the Unknown #139

In "They Pass By Night!", a tense moment unfolds as a car speeds down a dark road, narrowly avoiding a looming bus—only to reveal in the final panel that the bus was actually on Mercury, making the near-collision a cosmic illusion. The story plays with perception and scale, turning a simple nighttime drive into a surprising twist of perspective.

In "The Black Beard!", Mac flees the police after a tense encounter at a diner, only to witness Lois walk over to a man with a black beard—before he’s arrested himself. After stealing a test plane and inexplicably returning to the same airport, Mac returns to the diner, where he meets Lois again—only to be arrested once more. As the pieces fall into place, he begins to understand the unsettling truth: the man with the black beard was him, from a future he never meant to reach.

In "The Totem!", Clark and his men stumble upon an Inuit man guarding a golden totem pole, which they seize and carry back with them. As they journey home, they wake each morning to find themselves shrinking—until the totem vanishes and they’re forced to return, only to face the same fate again. One by one, Clark’s men abandon him as the transformation deepens, leaving him alone with the mystery of the pole and the truth of what it truly is.

In "Power!", Ronnie finds himself face-to-face with sorcerers who claim his family’s humble divining rod is, in truth, a powerful magic wand they’ve long sought. When they demand its return, Ronnie makes a sudden, decisive choice that changes everything.

In a quiet town haunted by a creature only one man claims to see, scientist Ivan Von Gent takes up the strange burden when the old man’s warnings go unheeded. After discovering how to perceive the unseen beast himself, Ivan becomes the new watcher—standing vigil where others cannot. Now, the old man can finally rest, knowing someone else bears the weight of what lurks beneath the surface.

In "When the Yogi Speaks!", Mitch and his gang enlist the help of the mysterious Punjor to learn his magical tricks, hoping to use them to slip past the police. Punjor agrees, but only teaches them how to cast the spells—leaving out the crucial part on how to undo them.

In "The Strange Seed!", Mark’s reckless experiment takes a terrifying turn when one of his plants reacts violently to an injury—only to come alive and attack him. As the creature from his garden begins to merge with a wound on his arm, Mark finds himself transformed, his flesh turning green and his mind caught in a nightmare he can’t escape.