Space Adventures #47

In a future where mankind spreads across the stars, the brilliant but bitter Dr. Marsden arrives at a penal asteroid after being convicted of plotting to replace Earth's leaders with perfect robots—a crime he claims he didn't commit. Banished to the colony with only his materials and his genius, Marsden sets to work creating his masterpiece: a robot fashioned in his own image, which he raises as a companion and confidant over the passing years. When unexpected news arrives offering him exoneration and a chance to return to Earth, Marsden's true ambitions resurface—but his creation may have developed something he never anticipated.

A mysterious new moon appears over Earth—and it's not alone. Space Captain Johnny Meade pilots a scout ship straight toward the alien sphere, determined to uncover the truth behind the invasion threat, only to find himself imprisoned and forced to improvise an escape using nothing but quick thinking and a crew member's spray. With Earth's military preparing a desperate gamma-gun defense and the fate of the planet hanging in the balance, Meade and his men must find a way out before the extraterrestrials' next move destroys everything they've sworn to protect.

A spy infiltrates the Free Nations' lunar stronghold, but his true mission—and the weapon he wields—prove far more devastating than any conventional attack. "War's End" unfolds across a space conflict that has consumed years, where one man's resolve becomes the key to peace in this tense 1962 tale from Space Adventures.

A colony ship arrives on Bardo to join the first settlers, only to discover them all dead and a cryptic warning: "Beware Beast—Food." As the terrified new colonists struggle to survive on an alien world with no way home, a quiet man named Harry Brown refuses to panic, nursing a mysterious theory about the planet's strange plants while the group descends into fear and violence. When the Beast itself appears, survival will depend on whether anyone will listen to the one colonist they've dismissed all along.