Weird Fantasy #5

In the depths of a forgotten mine, a mining engineer emerges to find a world reduced to ash—its cities gone, its skies darkened by the aftermath of atomic war. As he struggles to make sense of the devastation, he learns the nation fought back with hydrogen bombs, winning a brutal four-day war, only to face a far more terrifying consequence: the entire population, including his own child, is being transformed by lingering radiation.

In "The Time Machine and the Shmoe!", a mischievous young man named Donald takes matters into his own hands when Professor Serutane refuses his request to join a time-travel experiment—so he sneaks into the time-top machine and journeys alone to the 9th Century, where his modern ways are met with confusion and he’s quickly put to work scrubbing floors.

In "Deadlock!", a lone Earth crew drifts through space, two years from home, when a mysterious vessel appears on their sensors. As they attempt to communicate through an automated brain machine, suspicion grows and old tensions flare—until their mistrust turns deadly.

In "Prediction of Disaster!", Professor Horton stumbles upon a terrifying cosmic truth: a star’s impending explosion can be predicted by an unusual spike in infrared radiation. When the Beta Orion goes nova exactly as he foresees, he realizes his theory is sound—and then faces a far more urgent crisis. With the Earth’s own sun showing the same ominous signs, he races to warn humanity before it’s too late.