Space Adventures #28

Vance and Kenny Loomis are returning to Earth from Venus when a meteor strike cripples their ship, forcing them to crash-land in a deep crater on the far side of the Moon—where they discover the fate of two missing exploration crews and encounter a space pirate who's turned the isolated crater into an ambush point for his theft operation. When the toxic lunar air renders most of the crew unconscious, Kenny's asthmatic condition proves to be an unexpected advantage in a desperate struggle for survival.

When young Professor Dave Jennings receives an intelligible signal from outer space, Earth's leaders face an unprecedented choice: welcome humanity's first contact from beyond, or prepare for the worst. As a mysterious spacecraft descends toward New York, the strange visitor emerges not as a being, but as something far stranger—and reveals a hunger that could transform everything humanity thought it knew about the cosmos.

Alien visitors return to Earth to reclaim a sacred idol their ancestor left behind ages ago—but when they discover the natives have come to worship it as their own, they face an unexpected dilemma. Using advanced technology, they devise a clever solution that allows them to retrieve their treasure while leaving the people of Earth with something equally meaningful. A witty 1959 tale that flips the script on first contact and divine worship.

When Elwood Craigie, science adviser to the President, discovers that beings from Galaxy L9 have infiltrated Earth disguised as human citizens, he devises an ingenious plan using infra-red light to expose them and save the planet from conquest. But as the creatures are rounded up and defeated, a shocking revelation emerges: the real threat has been hiding in plain sight all along. This 1959 tale delivers a wickedly ironic twist that proves sometimes the most dangerous invaders are the ones we thought we'd already beaten.