Strange Suspense Stories #76

When Captain Adam, a U.S.A.F. test-pilot and rocket expert, boards the experimental X-49 spacecraft alongside Major Silberling, he discovers a critical flaw in the oxygen supply pump that could prove fatal at the plane's target speed of 18,000 miles per hour. As the Major begins to suffer from oxygen deprivation during flight, Captain Adam must transform into his true form—Captain Atom—and venture into the vacuum of space to save the mission and his fellow pilot's life.

When a television probe headed for Venus captures footage of an alien woman on the planet's surface, Captain Adam—the U.S. Air Force's astrophysics expert—witnesses something no one else on Earth can see. Suspecting sabotage when the signal cuts out, Captain Adam transforms into Captain Atom and rockets into space to confront the Venutian responsible, only to discover that the aliens have far more in mind than simply disabling Earth's equipment. This 1965 tale explores what happens when humanity's first contact with an extraterrestrial civilization doesn't go quite as expected.

A cutting-edge American satellite designed to monitor Soviet military activity finds itself in the crosshairs when the enemy launches a fleet of manned spacecraft to destroy it—forcing Major Wilson to pilot a lone defensive vessel into orbit to protect the nation's technological advantage. With the fate of America's surveillance system hanging in the balance, one man must face off against multiple enemy astronauts in the cold vacuum of space.