Weird Science #10

Commander Glenn Valent and his crew, weary from two years of interstellar scouting for uranium, finally return to Earth—only to land on a planet where radiant women greet them, paired with grotesque male counterparts. As the crew begins to settle into lives of luxury and marriage, strange truths about the planet’s inhabitants start to surface, leaving Valent and his crew questioning everything they thought they knew.

In "Reducing... Costs," two struggling arena owners turn to a scientist for a radical solution to outdo their larger rival, "The Garden." With a daring experiment, he proposes shrinking spectators to fit more into their venue—only to find the process spirals beyond control.

Dr. Emil Hinde’s obsession with controlling his daughter Terry’s life takes a bizarre turn when he secretly alters her fiancé Lee using his controversial sex gene experiments. When Terry discovers the truth, her reaction sets off a chain of events that leads to a wedding unlike any other—strange, sudden, and impossible to predict.

In "The Planetoid!" from Weird Science #10 (1951), a crew of space explorers lands on a tiny planetoid only to be overwhelmed by swarming, insect-sized inhabitants—and even more terrifying, by airborne, stinging objects that seem to attack without warning. What begins as a routine investigation quickly spirals into a disorienting encounter that upends everything they thought they knew about scale, identity, and where they truly are.