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Space Action #1 (1952)
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In the far reaches of space, King Stephan of Sirion faces a distant alien threat while his brother Karnock schemes to seize the throne. Sent to investigate by the beleaguered king, Space Admiral Jon Lasim finds himself drawn to the king’s daughter—and caught in a deadly game of loyalty and betrayal on a planet where power shifts with every shadow.
On Jupiter's moon, a secret resistance fights to free Princess Valya from her tyrannical uncle, Protector Karnock, who schemes to seize the throne through forced marriage and political manipulation. As Space Admiral Jon Lasim arrives to rally the underground, the fate of Sirion hangs in the balance, with the rebels racing to expose Karnock’s crimes before it’s too late.
In the year 2240, after Earth’s unification following a devastating atomic war, Senator Cameron stumbles upon a secret discovery of the rare element thurinium on an unknown planet—only to be framed and exiled by his colleague Senator Borg, who conspires with the arms dealer Hetkar. Sent drifting into space aboard a monitored rocket, Cameron is rescued by an advanced civilization on the mysterious planet Telemos, where he is tested and welcomed by the scientist Dr. Demarest and his daughter Gail. As Cameron grows closer to Gail and learns of Telemos’s immense power, he faces a moral dilemma: should he stay in peace or risk everything to return and expose the traitors who threaten Earth’s fragile peace?
In the wake of Black Bartow’s apparent destruction, Captain Dick Rand and Inter-Planetary Patrol Group One are sent to investigate a sudden, global freeze threatening the seven planets—only to discover that Bartow may still be alive, hiding inside the massive solar furnace satellite Solar. When a mysterious woman named Erica Lindstrom reveals she knows the truth and that Bartow has used secret plans to infiltrate Solar, Rand must decide whether to trust her and risk entering the sealed station to stop a threat that could freeze the entire system.