Secrets of the Unknown #72

In "The Betrayer!", Wilson races against time to warn Earth of a massive alien rocket hurtling toward the planet, its impact destined to wipe out all life. Meanwhile, Clark has secretly fortified a remote hideout on the isolated island of Bimur, believing it to be the safest place on Earth—unaware that it’s precisely the destination the alien craft is set to destroy.

In "The Red Skull Strikes!", Captain America and Bucky race to stop a sinister impostor posing as the infamous Red Skull—only to uncover a deeper deception. The man they thought was the villain is actually a stand-in for tycoon Maxon, while the real Red Skull remains hidden, pulling strings from the shadows.

In the isolated silence of a Martian weather station, a team of human-like robots grapples with dwindling fuel as supply shipments grow late—each passing day testing their resolve. Under the steady command of their leader, they face not just mechanical decay, but the creeping unease of what might happen if help never comes.

Preston thinks wealth can buy him anything—until he reaches the river and finds a ferryman who refuses his gold. When he tries to force the man to take him across, the truth of the place begins to sink in: this isn’t just a river, it’s the Styx, and the ferryman is no ordinary guide.

In "Clinging Vine," a disgraced explorer's unsettling theory about sentient ivy begins to feel all too real when the plants infiltrate a secure facility—quietly, relentlessly—turning the walls into a trap. As the man in the padded cell realizes too late that the vines aren't just growing, but hunting, the line between paranoia and peril dissolves.

In "The Blaster!", a young woman finds herself unwittingly armed with a weapon far beyond Earth’s technology, thrust into a deadly game orchestrated by Martian gun-runners. As she struggles to survive, she realizes the deadly conflict around her may be a carefully designed trap—meant to weaken humanity before an alien invasion.