Strange Worlds #7

Navigator Jon Grant and his partner Tim Rawl journey to the mysterious Planetoid-50 in search of radioactive alurium—a miracle cure for Earth's diseases—only to discover the world is home to an intelligent native civilization and monstrous creatures that mirror Earth's own bacteria. When the locals hail them as "space-gods" and a treacherous native named Zagg seizes power, Grant and Rawl must fight their way back to their ship with the help of a remarkable Earth-girl named Monah. A wild rescue mission unfolds as the barriers meant to contain the monsters crumble, and our heroes barely escape the planetoid's horrors.

Space Lieutenant Dav Fallon wakes to find a Venusian assassin in his quarters—and discovers that Commander Slar Kan has orchestrated a full-scale rebellion aboard Space Station 1, the crucial orbital hub that refuels Earth's fleet. With most of the station's crew already eliminated and the Venusians preparing to rain atomic bombs on Earth's major cities, Fallon and a handful of surviving crew members must fight their way through overwhelming odds to reach the bomb ports and stop the attack. It's a desperate race against time where Earth's survival rests on the shoulders of a wounded officer, a nurse, and the last defenders of humanity's future in space.

Halran Ammo is a human born a thousand years ahead of his time—a radiation-born mutant with the power to transmit his body through space at the speed of thought. When he realizes the world is rushing toward catastrophic war, he decides to use his incredible abilities to destroy the weapons and war plants of every nation, convinced it's the only way to save mankind from itself. But as nations unite to hunt him down as a supernatural fiend, Halran discovers that his mission to prevent war may cost him everything he holds dear.

Thomas Gow, a traveling salesman and would-be heir, returns home determined to wrest control of his inheritance from his uncle Robert Patterson—and when his uncle refuses, Gow seizes a pruning knife in a moment of murderous desperation. But in the struggle, something unexpected happens: Gow's feathered hat falls into a rare Venus fly-trap that Patterson has just received from Central America, and that tiny botanical detail becomes the very clue that unravels his perfect crime.