Weird Wonder Tales #2

In "I Was Kidnapped by a Flying Saucer!" from Weird Wonder Tales #2 (1974), a carnival owner stumbles upon a group of small aliens secretly altering crops to shrink humans—part of a plan to eliminate Earth’s size advantage before their invasion. When he realizes their scheme, he spins a clever ruse, showing them his circus giant as proof that the crops are actually making people grow huge, not small, and the aliens, convinced, abandon their mission and flee.

In "The Unwanted!", human colonists fleeing Mars find themselves stranded in Earth’s orbit, barred from returning by the primitive survivors of a nuclear apocalypse. As they wait for the planet’s descendants to evolve beyond their violent past, the line between humanity and the future grows thinner than they ever imagined.

In "Murdock's Brain!" from Weird Wonder Tales #2 (1974), a scientist named Murdock, desperate to survive an impending atomic war, creates a serum that keeps his mind alive even as his body appears lifeless. Years pass as peace returns and science unlocks the secrets of immortality, leaving Murdock trapped in a coffin—still thinking, still aware, but unable to move.