Strange Worlds #3

In "I Was a Human Satellite!" from Strange Worlds #3 (1959), Jo, a space patrol officer plagued by claustrophobia, flees the confines of his ship in an escape pod and stumbles upon an asteroid that hides a pirate base. Forced to confront his deepest fear in a cramped radio room, he sends a desperate warning that leads to the pirates’ capture.

In "My Job...Catch a Robot," the head of the robotics division travels to the American colony on the moon to solve a string of uranium thefts—crimes that seem impossible, since only the robot miners could have committed them. But when he realizes the thief must be human, he’s forced to confront a deception that blurs the line between machine and man.

In 2165, Jo finds herself trapped in a zoo with a towering alien beast that shatters its domed enclosure—only to be stunned when attendants arrive with a new dome, claiming it's meant to restore the creature’s native atmosphere, not protect her.

In "I Was the Man Who Lived Twice!", a boy raised by gypsies—lazy and unfulfilled—gets a miraculous second chance when a mysterious fountain of youth returns him to infancy, where he’s adopted by another gypsy family. This haunting tale of rebirth and second chances unfolds across five pages of classic fantasy.

In the year 2389, space pilots like Jo face a heartbreaking truth: every mission means decades lost to the ones they love back on Earth. When Jo is assigned a long-haul voyage, the weight of separation hangs heavy—especially as a quiet romance begins to bloom.