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Cover: Dick Giordano
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Space Adventures #51

May 1963 · Charlton · 0.12 USD
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# Space Adventures #51 This issue appears to be an anthology containing at least two stories. The lead story features a red robot that claims robots are ready to take over the world, convincing humans that they have robot receivers instead of minds—a scheme no one believes until it is too late to stop the invading robots from Earth. A secondary story, presented in text prose form, describes a man's suspicious encounter with George Mednick, a mysterious financial advisor with apparent mind-reading abilities who offers lucrative investment tips and eventually proposes a lifetime contract. A third story involves Captain Weir and military personnel on a space base dealing with sabotage, featuring a confrontation with an unnamed enemy and General Ducklen's involvement in the crisis.

Contains 6 stories
Dream On
4 pp · Science Fiction

A bookkeeper named Elwood has a vivid dream about piloting a spacecraft into deep space, where he encounters mysterious alien creatures and barely escapes with his life—and a strange feather as proof. When his cousin Lt. Col. Roger Briggs returns from his own real space mission, he reveals that he faced the same bird-men Elwood warned him about, confirming that the dream was something far more than imagination. Their shared evidence suggests a genuine threat waiting in the cosmos, one that Briggs narrowly avoided thanks to Elwood's otherworldly warning.

Terror Dynasty
6 pp · Science Fiction
Never Talk to Strangers
4 pp · Science Fiction
The Visitors
4 pp · Science Fiction

Two space travelers crash-land on a primitive jungle world in "The Visitors," desperately searching for intelligent life while fending off savage creatures with flame weapons. Their struggle to repair the ship and survive the planet's hostile wildlife sets off a chain of events that will reshape the world's future in ways they never anticipated. A tense science fiction tale that asks what happens when advanced visitors leave their mark on a world unprepared for such knowledge.

You Could Be One
6 pp · Science Fiction

Captain Leon Weir returns from fighting blue-skinned aliens to find Earth has been quietly infiltrated—and no one believes him. Sensing an electromagnetic tingle that betrays the invaders' artificial nature, Weir must convince his superiors of the truth before the aliens, now disguised among military command, silence him for good. In this tense 1963 tale from Space Adventures, a wounded war hero races against time to expose an enemy that looks perfectly human.

American Pioneer
1 pp · Biography, History

Daniel Boone emerges as one of America's greatest pioneers, a skilled marksman and fearless woodsman whose personal courage caught the attention of British General Braddock during the French and Indian Wars of 1755. Driven by his love of the wilderness, Boone explores wild Kentucky, establishes settlements despite fierce resistance, and ultimately builds Boonesboro—opening the vast frontier to future pioneers. His legacy of intrepid exploration and perseverance earned him a place in the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1915.

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Raw (VG) $9
CGC 9.4 · 1 in census $232*
CGC 9.2 none in existence
CGC 9.0 · 1 in census $91*
CGC 8.5 none in existence
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CGC 6.5 · 1 in census $30*
CGC 6.0 · 1 in census $30*
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Full credits

writer Joe Gill
cover pencils, inks Dick Giordano

Reprints

↩ Reprints Li'l Genius #41 (1962)

Reprinted in Sinister Tales #29 (1966), Sinister Tales #59 (1969), Sinister Tales #138 (1975), Sinister Tales #170 (1979), Planet Series #11 (1980), Astounding Stories #185 (1987), Weird Planets #12

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