Space Adventures #29

Prof. Harley and Paul Foster achieve humanity's first landing on Mars, only to discover the planet's mysterious linear formations are far more than natural geological features. When a colossal sphere emerges from one of the channels, the pioneers are pulled aboard and thrust into a nightmarish revelation: Mars is controlled by a hostile intelligence that captures and destroys all visiting spacecraft. Stranded alongside prisoners from Jupiter, Harley and Foster must find a way to escape before they become another wreck in the Martian graveyard.

When the doomed planet Daria faces certain destruction, its greatest scientist Thoran devises a radical plan: transform the entire population into small creatures capable of surviving the journey to a new world in a specially designed space ship. The transformed inhabitants land on prehistoric Earth, but a catastrophic crash destroys the fluid needed to restore them to their original forms, leaving them stranded as insects for millions of years. "The Long Wait" explores a haunting twist on survival and evolution that lingers long after the final page.

Two astrophysicists on a quiet fishing trip witness a flying saucer landing and alert the Army, who quickly construct a cage around the mysterious craft. When the saucer begins to react to the soldiers' presence and an accidental gunshot renders it motionless, Craig Weston and Professor Beaumont find themselves caught between the military's urgency to breach the vessel and the astonishing arrival of a massive second ship from the sky.