Weird Science #10

Commander Glenn Valent and his weary crew—navigator Andrew Martin, geologist Carl William, engineer Herbert Groosky, and biologist Robert Reill—finally return from two years of interstellar scavenging, only to land on a planet where radiant, butterfly-like women greet them with hypnotic grace. As the crew begins to settle into new lives among the planet’s inhabitants, the beauty of their new world slowly reveals a terrifying truth: the women are not what they seem, and the men they’ve married may be the planet’s most dangerous secret.

In "Reducing... Costs," two struggling arena owners desperate to outdo the towering rival known as "The Garden" turn to a scientist for a radical solution. His invention promises to shrink spectators unnoticed, allowing more fans to pack into their venue—until the process goes dangerously wrong.

Dr. Emil Hinde’s obsession with controlling his daughter Terry’s life reaches a shocking new extreme when he secretly alters her fiancé Lee using his controversial sex gene experiments. When Terry discovers the truth, her reaction sends shockwaves through the situation—leading to a wedding that’s as unexpected as it is unforgettable.

In "The Planetoid!", a team of space explorers lands on a tiny world only to be overwhelmed by swarming, insect-sized inhabitants and deadly flying projectiles—only to realize, in shock, that the planetoid is actually Earth, and the creatures they thought were aliens are humanity itself, scaled down to the size of insects.