Space Adventures #7

In the shadow of a looming nuclear war, Lars Kranston and his lover Betty Stone flee Earth for Mars, only to survive a crash that kills everyone else. Left alone on a foreign world, Betty awakens with no memory of who she is—while Lars, determined to rebuild, makes a radical choice that reshapes his identity. As the threat of Earth’s destruction fades, Betty slowly recalls their journey, leading her to confront the startling truth about Lars and the life they’ve forged in isolation.

In "The Doomed Civilization," Commander Krait's crew intercepts a desperate plea from the planet X-3-Z, where war threatens to erase an entire society. Dr. Triple decodes the message, and Captain Jer leads a fleet in a final, tragic attempt to intervene—only to find the planet’s fate already sealed. The story’s haunting final panel reveals a chilling truth: X-3-Z was once Earth, remembered by those who once called it home.

In "Homecoming," Edmund Cranston, a brilliant engineer, pitches his rocketship design to Dr. Corning with a singular wish: to sail on its maiden voyage to the moon. As the crew—Cranston, Corning, Ellis, and Major Learner—launch into the unknown, a shocking revelation unfolds: Cranston is not who he seems, and his true destination lies far beyond Earth. The story ends with the crew vanishing, leaving behind a world that abandons space travel, its future uncertain.

In "Fateful Fluid," a scientist's breakthrough elixir turns everything it touches to gold—until Kryn, drawn by greed, tests it on himself. What begins as a daring experiment quickly spirals as the transformation spreads uncontrollably, leaving him trapped in a golden form. The story unfolds with tense, rapid-fire consequences, all set against the stark backdrop of a lab where one wrong move could mean the end.

In the rotating city of the Earth-Moon space station, Dr. Tero and Dr. Orso raise their synthetic children, Nors and Gri, amid a world of scientific ambition. When Gri steals fuel to journey to Saturn and return with an alien creature, Nors responds by unveiling a hidden craft—launching a whirlwind of destruction and creation across the city’s wheel-like streets. The race for glory ends in a surprising tie, leaving the future of the synthetic children and their creators uncertain.

In "Invasion," a desperate Saturnian alien infiltrates Earth, shrinking himself with pills to blend in. But as he tries to survive in his tiny form, he becomes prey to a far more dangerous creature than he anticipated.