Space Adventures #11

In "Interplanetary Safari!" from Space Adventures #11 (1954), thrill-seeking explorer Ron Adams sets out to capture a colossal, carnivorous plant on the distant planet Xarto, backed by financier Halliday—on the condition that his daughter, Carol Halliday, joins the expedition. With Hugo Parsons assigned to keep her in check, Carol’s bold spirit soon puts her in peril when she’s caught in the grip of the very creature they’ve come to hunt.

In "You Are the Jury," alien guard Ogu lands on Earth during a routine patrol, drawn to a traveling circus where he’s quickly outplayed at poker—only to win a hand so wild it literally takes the sky. Now facing arrest for abandoning his post, he stands before a court of his own kind, pleading to return what he took, not for glory, but because he’s come to understand what it means to be human.

Moment of Decision finds a surveying crew from Earth's spaceship dealing with an unexpected threat when one crewman strays too far and encounters shape-shifting, amoeba-like aliens. With two identical figures claiming to be the real Anderson, the captain must make a crucial choice—trust his instincts or risk taking a dangerous impostor back to the ship. This tense survival story captures the high stakes of early space exploration where a single wrong call could spell disaster.

In "Dead Reckoning!" from Space Adventures #11 (1954), airman Andor is called to a tense standoff aboard a drifting space station, where an elderly man accuses his young, blonde maid, Kyt, of stealing a treasure map. When the man attacks her with an electric whip, Andor intervenes—shooting him in self-defense—and, after a charged moment, kisses Kyt before abandoning his badge to follow the map’s trail to the asteroid Klaxon.

Inspector Moe Ron follows a hunch into a wax museum, convinced a fugitive has ducked inside—and finds himself navigating a crowded maze of lifelike figures in his search.

In the depths of the 1954 ocean, the submarine R-93 crashes into the lost world of Atlantis, where Captain Small, Huey, and Robert Crane are rescued by the fishmen Lor-Shim, Ssil-Il, and Fen-Ac. Under the rule of Queen Shar-La, the Atlanteans face extinction as their city’s systems fail and the ocean cools—until the crew uses the submarine’s atomic engines to revive their dying technology. But as Shar-La prepares to marry Robert Crane, Elder Valyon stirs unrest, threatening to unravel the fragile peace.