Strange Worlds #9

When Earth and Mars learn of a radium-rich asteroid, Georg Garron and his colleague Robert Blair eagerly pursue the discovery—only to find themselves captured by Rokk, a human criminal transformed into a radioactive monster after a decade of exile on the deadly world. Now held hostage aboard a ship bound for the asteroid, Garron must find a way to escape before Rokk's army of radium creatures can launch their conquest of both planets.

Mike Gordon, a World Federation undercover agent posing as a wealthy traveler, is assigned to secretly guard Nadine Grail, the President's daughter, aboard the luxury spaceship Stardust Queen on her journey to Venus—until a mysterious kidnapper known as Anders Zorn seizes her during a violent mutiny, demands one million decimars in ransom, and escapes into space with his hostage. Now Gordon must pursue the villain through the void to save Nadine and stop Zorn's scheme before it's too late.

In "World of the Monster Brain!", a young boy named Georgie listens to his grandfather’s chilling tale of a daring escape from a twisted alien realm. When a curious boy named Larry is abducted by strange Torks, he’s thrust into the fourth dimension and forced to toil alongside a race of enslaved humanoids known as Slaans.

When the passenger liner *Starglow* vanishes en route to Mars, Jim Fanning of Earth's Interplanetary Emergency Bureau is planted aboard the *Space Queen* to uncover who—or what—is destroying ships across the solar system. His investigation leads him to Asteroid 9, where a mysterious weapon and a desperate search for a missing scientist converge in a struggle against a ruthless villain hunting for fortune among the stars.