Space Adventures #16

When Rocky Jones receives an urgent summons back to Earth, he discovers that a mysterious signal—the infamous Forbidden Frequency—is being used to hijack people's minds and force them to buy worthless surplus goods from unsuspecting stores. With Secretary Drake unable to track the transmission's origin across the stars, Rocky must pursue the signal to an uncharted planet and confront the criminal mastermind behind the scheme before the technology falls into far more dangerous hands.

When a man petrified for over a thousand years is brought back to life in the far future, Sheriff Wild Bill Jupiter finds himself an oddity in an age of space travel and advanced science. Thrust into a mission alongside Space Commander Rocky Jones, the old lawman stows away aboard the Orbit Jet to join the hunt for mysteriously vanishing spacecraft—only to discover that the renegade scientist Oxnam lies behind the disappearances, commanding a stolen fleet and plotting conquest of Earth. Jupiter's frontier grit and unexpected presence may prove invaluable when negotiations turn tense on a hostile moon base.

From ancient myths of Apollo's fiery chariot to modern atomic science, "Secret of the Sun" traces humanity's evolving understanding of what powers our star—from the Greeks' divine explanations through failed theories of coal combustion and gravitational contraction, to today's atomic research revealing the true engine behind the sun's endless energy. This 1955 tale explores how scientists have come to understand that the conversion of atoms into heat and light keeps our world alive, a discovery that explains what kept early theories from accounting for the sun's remarkable longevity.

Dr. Carl Lexikon's ship is pulled off course by a mysterious force and crash-lands on the planet Kano, where he's recruited to repair an advanced machine called the Zetatron—but his growing connection with Platina, one of the planet's inhabitants, stirs dangerous jealousy in her sister Zaeronga. As schemes unfold and loyalties are tested, Lexikon must navigate the treacherous politics of an alien world while a force beyond his control works to separate him from everything he's discovered there.