Space Adventures #46

A man named Boris is abducted by aliens from a dying planet and forced to deliver an urgent message to Earth's governments: his captors need water to survive, and they're willing to take it by force if humanity refuses. But when Boris tries to warn the authorities, no one believes his fantastic story—and time is running out before the aliens make good on their threat. Written by the Charlton Comics staff, this 1962 science fiction tale asks what happens when the world's most crucial resource becomes the subject of an ultimatum from the stars.

Mankind's first crewed spaceship encounters a meteor storm beyond Jupiter and loses life support, but mysteriously returns to Earth nine years later—fully repaired and refueled by an unseen alien intelligence. The crew discovers they were rescued by benevolent extraterrestrials who extracted human history from their frozen bodies and left them improved technology as a gift, along with an invitation to return when humanity is ready. Now the Commander and his crew must convince Earth that this impossible encounter is real, and that a new chapter in human history awaits among the stars.

Joe Pollack lives and breathes fishing—nothing else matters, not weather, not family, not friends, only the next catch. After a lifetime devoted entirely to studying and pursuing fish, mastering their every habit and behavior, Joe finally lands the record-breaker he's always chased. But his obsession has transformed him into something altogether unexpected.

When a malfunctioning Soviet satellite tumbles out of control in orbit, American astronaut Major Biddle spots the vessel in distress and makes a daring decision: he'll synchronize his own capsule's spin, lock on magnetically, and bring both ships down together. As Biddle executes a harrowing re-entry and recovery in the Pacific, his Soviet counterpart—cosmonaut Uri Zigoyan—awakens to find himself rescued by the very nation his government considers a rival. Back on Earth, Zigoyan faces an impossible choice between returning home under orders or seizing the freedom that Biddle's courage has unexpectedly offered him.

Captain John Clement pilots humanity's first manned lunar mission in a secret Cold War space race, only to discover the Moon is far from the lifeless world everyone believed it to be. When he encounters an alien robot and Soviet cosmonauts already established on the lunar surface, Clement must use cunning and the very technology meant against him to survive and secure America's claim to the Moon. With incoming spacecraft approaching and the fate of the world hanging in the balance, Clement waits to learn whether reinforcements or enemies will arrive first.