Strange Tales of the Unusual #9

In "They Meet at Night!" from Strange Tales of the Unusual #9 (1957), a Martian sent to capture an Earth man ends up snatching a fellow Martian who’s been living undercover on Earth for a millennium—disguised as a human. The twist unfolds as two beings from the same distant world collide, each unaware of the other’s true identity.

In "Prophet of Doom!" from Strange Tales of the Unusual #9 (1957), a bank robber with a twisted gift for foresight tries to outsmart fate—only to be undone by his own prediction. When he sees a train wreck in his mind, he pulls the emergency cord, halting the train just in time… and just long enough for a second train to collide, sending debris his way and giving the authorities the opening they need.

In "Mind Reader!" from Strange Tales of the Unusual #9 (1957), two men with the same uncanny ability—one a Nazi saboteur, the other an American agent—form a tense alliance built on shared secrets. As the saboteur prepares to plant a bomb at a munitions factory, the American’s quiet deception turns the weapon against him in a moment of chilling irony.

In "Stowaway In The Sky!" from Strange Tales of the Unusual #9 (1957), a pilot with a plane forged from gravity-defying metal outsmarts a group of spies by sending his crew tumbling into the sky—suspended midair by harnesses made of the same strange material. With the spies believing them dead, the crew slowly drifts, turning the plane around to catch the intruders off guard.

In "Captured By The Cave Men!", two scientists stumble upon a hidden underground society that hunts those from the surface world. With their equipment destroyed, they’re trapped in a world they never knew existed—forced to survive in a place where the rules of the surface no longer apply.