Secrets of the Unknown #242

In "The Nothing Man!" from *Secrets of the Unknown* #242 (1988), a boxing hopeful’s accidental invention of an invisibility powder rockets him to middleweight championship glory—until his newfound freedom leads him to test the limits of the law. After a nap, he wakes to find the police have built a jail around him, trapping the man who thought he was untouchable.

In "Danger Signal!" from *Secrets of the Unknown* #242 (1988), a boy’s toy trains take on eerie life when his father’s warning light flickers on a real rail—just as the signalman collapses from a heart attack, leaving the tracks dangerously unswitched. The line between play and peril blurs as the boy’s imagination becomes the only thing standing between his father and disaster.

In "The Boy Who Saw!", three men confront unsettling visions when a mysterious boy with otherworldly insight offers to read their futures—for a single penny. As each prediction unfolds with chilling accuracy, they seek him out again, only to find he’s vanished, his mother having ended his strange gift, and he’s disappeared into the sky, leaving behind only silence and wonder.

In "Beware of Meeks Bringing Gifts!", a sudden arrival of alien visitors brings miraculous technology that ends poverty and war—until a skeptical journalist, Jo, confronts one of them on live television, forcing a confession under threat of a gun. The promise of peace begins to unravel as the true intentions behind the gifts come into question.

Jo, a quiet boy with a knack for breaking things, discovers that his old globe reacts strangely to damage—mirroring cracks and dents in the real world. When the globe finally shatters, a sudden surge of energy ripples through the house, and far away, a long-dead world erupts in silence.