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Secrets of the Unknown#241
Cover: Dick Giordano

Secrets of the Unknown #241

Jan 1987 · Alan Class · 0.55 GBP
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In "The Ambassador from Earth," a man’s scheme to eliminate his rival backfires when a captured lion ray malfunctions, hurling him into the past—though time bends strangely, leaving him hidden for a year while his partner unexpectedly rises to wealth. The twist? The explosion reanimated a fossil into a living dinosaur, reshaping their world in ways neither man could foresee. Art by Al Eadeh, with cover by Dick Giordano, this 1987 Alan Class classic blends sci-fi intrigue with a time-bent mystery.

Contains 16 stories
The Ambassador from Earth
10 pp · Science Fiction
Run 1,000,000 Miles
4 pp · Science Fiction
Century Without War
4 pp · Science Fiction
Monster from Oxy-3
4 pp · Science Fiction
Something Waits on the Mountain!
4 pp · Fantasy
Objective Moon
5 pp · Science Fiction
The Men in the Moon
6 pp · Science Fiction
The Second Trojan War
20 pp · Superhero
Son of Vulcan [Johnny Mann]Dr. Kong
The Thing That Wouldn't Stop!
4 pp
The Last Chance
4 pp
Someone is in the Trunk
4 pp · Horror-Suspense

In "Someone is in the Trunk," a thief hiding out in a rooming house finds himself unsettled when his new roommate, a psychologist, sets a quiet trap—placing a mirror in the bottom of a trunk, its surface reflecting not the darkness within, but the thief’s own guilty face. The story unfolds with a creeping tension, as the mirror becomes a haunting echo of the man’s past, blurring the line between paranoia and reality.

Only Twelve of Us May Live!
5 pp · Science Fiction

In the dire final hours before a rogue planet obliterates Canopus Minor, the desperate race to save their world forces Sfeen to devise a radical solution: shrinking the entire population to miniature size so all twelve survivors can fit aboard the escape craft. With time running out and no room for error, the fate of an entire civilization hinges on a single, untested experiment in scale and survival.

Fear Walks on Four Feet!
4 pp · Science Fiction
Lester MorseJim AndrewsRuth AndrewsHampton

In "Fear Walks on Four Feet!" from *Secrets of the Unknown* #241 (1987), a man's scheme to destroy his romantic rival backfires when a malfunctioning ray meant to capture a lion instead reanimates a fossil into a living dinosaur. Stranded in time and hiding for a year, he returns to find his partner unexpectedly wealthy—while the creature he unleashed roams the present.

Beware...A Martian
4 pp · Science Fiction
He Made the Machines Go Mad!
5 pp · Science Fiction
XTT-4Prof. Jonas Weems
Swap Shop
5 pp

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Full credits

artist, inker Al Eadeh
cover pencils, inks Dick Giordano

Reprints

↩ Reprints Marvel Tales #136 (1955), Marvel Tales #141 (1955), Strange Stories of Suspense #14 (1957), Mystic #59 (1957), Strange Tales #61 (1958), Journey into Mystery #53 (1959), Kid Montana #19 (1959), Space War #5 (1960), Space Adventures #48 (1962), Space War #23 (1963), Space Adventures #53 (1963), Space War #25 (1963), Space Adventures #54 (1965), Son of Vulcan #50 (1966)

Reprinted in Secrets of the Unknown #114

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