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Space Action #3 (1952)
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Commander Rick Colton and a small crew survive a catastrophic crash after discovering that Earth's atmosphere has become fatally poisoned—forcing them to flee into space in search of a new home. As they scour the stars, they stumble upon a hidden underwater world inhabited by a race resembling lancelets, only to be captured by a ruthless regime that has already claimed the planet for itself.
In the year 2552, as Earth and other planets face annihilation by mysterious human-shaped meteorites, Cosmo, Earth’s representative, volunteers for a desperate mission to uncover their origin. With the help of Naphtaili, a survivor from Mars, Cosmo sets out to infiltrate the invaders’ ranks—only to find that the true threat may be hidden among the very allies meant to stop them.
On the distant planetoid Japetus, former official Zorka is exposed as the mastermind behind a space piracy ring and exiled to Callisto, but his vengeance is far from over. Years later, he rallies a band of outlaws on the frozen moon Tethys, plotting to seize control of Japetus by threatening to destroy its atmosphere pump. With Mira, the daughter of Japetus’s director Thark, now in his grasp, Zorka demands to be made ruler and marry her—setting in motion a deadly game of power and retribution.