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CHEATED OF HISH
INTENDED PREY, f
GORVAK FUE*
INTO A BASE.
U1HEK) THE CREEPING DEATH
SETS. AT THE THROATS OF THE
CREWS, THOSE SHIPS WILL BE
OURS WITHOUT HAVING TO TUSK
A SERIES OF BATTLES UJITH THErt.
ALL WE'LL HAUE TO DO IS RUN
THEM DOUJN.TOU) THEMTD THE
NEAREST HIDEOUT AMD WAIT FOR
A FEW DAWS FOR THE PROTOPLAStA
TO DIE OF STARVATION/ NCHU.
GET BUSY AND PREPARE
THE STUFF."
SORVAK UNABLE TO
, RESTRAIN
HlttSELF, SETS THE
PROJECTOR IN ACTION
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LIVIN& HERE UNDER WATER,
ARE DESCENDANTS OF THE ,
LOST TRIBE OF aAEROjRY? J
THAT 15 TRUE.' OUR *=
FORBEARS &RADUALLV
DEVELOPED THE PHYSICAL
MEAhJS TO LIVE IN THIS
WATER. NOW THERE ARE
DREDS O
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I OTHER DRAXIONS MJHO ARE | BEEN KEEPING ALL THESE
I ABOUT TO ADVANCE ON E CENTURIES IS TO ENLIST THE
: MERCURiflWS... |
AID OF THESPACEHAWK.'HE o \
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J CORRIDOR, BREAK OPEN A SECOND
j DOOR, AND
LIKE A BOLLET FRO/A A GUN, HE SHOOTS
UP FROM THE WATER. TO HIS DISMAY,
HIS SHIP IS NOT IN SIGHT. THERE IS NO
ONE TO STOP HIS SPEEDf FLIGHT INTO
THE SKY....
THERE GOES THE TREASURE MUE
GUARDED SO LONG, BORLO.' ARE
YOU SURE WE AREN'T MRKING
A MISTAKE TO TRUST IT TO THE
£.PACEHAUX?j
TWO DAYS LATER, A FLEET OF FREIGHT SHIPS ARRIVES FRO*
THE VENUSIAN CITIES ON THE OTHER SIDE OF- THE PLANET.
THEY ARE LOADED WITH MATERIALS FOR ESUILDlNG- THE
GREAT NEW OYILI2ATIOM OF THE DRAXION5....
UNDER THESRACEHAWJK'S
DIRECTION, THE CITY OF
DRflXIA 15 SOOU fl REAUT*
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24
25
 JARK STAYS IN THE CONTROL HOUSE AND OPERATES THE
DEN-CLOSING MECHANISM, WHILE ZORG-, WITH A SHOCK
WHIF> GOES OUT AND FORCES THE CREATURES BACK INTO
THEIR UNDERGROUND QUARTERS

AHA.' AN EARTH GlRL — AMD QUITE

COMELY, TOO! JUST THE PERSON TO
KEEP ME FROM BECOMING TOO LONELY
ON THIS BARREN LITTLE PLRNET/j-—j
UPON <ps»& r ^ r •* ** Vv
SEEING
2DR&,
SHE
ATTEMPTS
TO FLEE,
L^ f
BUT A
POWERFUL
TENTACLE WrBSB
WHIPS
OUT AND r\ > // "N /
SEIZES 1 I ***" 1

HER...

r
AN EARTH GIRL, EH? JUST LEAVE HER TO ME, ZOR&.
YOU CAN HAVE WHAT EVER ELSE YOU FIND IN
THE SHIP/
^ GET THIS THRU YOUR THICK SKULL
RIGHT NOW, JARK! I'M THF HEAD
OF THI5 PLANETOID, AND I'LL
DECIDE WHAT YOU CAN HAVE.' I'LL
TAKE CARE OF THIS GIRL AND I
DON'T NEED ANY HELP.'
MP* U~
M
COME NOW.' I WALL PUT YOU'LL REG-RET EARTH WOMAN, THE INTELLIGENCE AND POWER
«/OU UNDER THE WHAT YOU'VE DONE, oF th e SPACEHAWK ARE NOTHING COMPARED
SURGICAL IT WILL
RAY.' YOU BEAST/ TF THE TO /VW ABILITIES.' THE SPACEHAWK WILL NEWER
ALTER YOUR APPEARANCE INTERPLANETARY SHOW HIS FACE ON THIS PLANETOID, UNLESS
COMPLETELY, AND YOU POLICE DON'T GET I DECIDE TO LURE HM TO HIS DOOM .^
VJ1LL BE TRULY YOU,THE SPACEHflWK
BEAUTIFUL ACCORDING- WILL .'J=s
TO /AY STANDARDS.'
THE VALOROUS HERO OF THE 5KIE5
IS DEADER THAU A MOON CRATER.'I'LL JARK SHR'EKS ALARM AS HE
IN IS GRIPPED
GIVE HIM A FITTING- FUNERAL BV LETTINS TIGHTLY BY THE LEG
OUT TWO MORE SNURLS To PICK HIS f-1
VgONFS/K
SPEAKING OF BONE-PICKING,
'

7 r HAVE ONE I'M GOING TO

PICK WITH YOU, MY FRIEND'
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 ZOR&'S ATOM. PISTOL SPITS
STRAIGHT INTO THE SEHRED
SPOT ON THE SPACEMAN'S
: CHE5T.

WHY — ITS A «ECHANlCflL MAN.']

1. " ROBOT/ -:::—'
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FOR&ET
A FACE.'
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[WHY NOT TAKE OFF
I
THAT MASK AND GIVE
ME A CHANCE TO
tt
v
REMEMBER YOURS?
SINCE I ARRIVED
THIS SOLAR SYSTEM
HAVE ALLOWED NO ONE
TO UNMASK ME OR
OF MY ROBOTS,
>NE 1
IN

wsm
ANY
-
BUT NOW
TO
I AM GOING
CLAIM THAT KISS
t DIDN'T TAKE VJHEN
I SAVED YOU FROM THE
MARTIAN PIRATES.'
UNTIL TODAY.'

31
 "
THERE THE ROBOT THRU
IS
WHICH I ATTACKED YOUR
CAPTORS.' IT FUNCTIONS BY
MY TELEPATHIC COMMANDS -
ALMOST AS MY OWN LIMBS,
DO.' IN FACT, IT IS ACTUALW
I IN A MECHANICAL FORM !
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32
Missing story from issue 8
- The Vulture Men From

the Void
 THE SUPERHUMAN ENEMY OF CRIME
4y BASIL WOLVERTON

ELECTION RETURNS OF COURSE I'M AHEAD/ VJITHIN S^ 1

-- S 5 ^-^~
ARE ALMOST HALF THE HOUR I SHALL HOVE WRESTED WHILE THE WOULD-BE
IN, GLORK, AND THE LEADERSHIP OF MARS FROM DICTATOR GLOATS OVER HIS
YOU'RE STI THAT PEACE-LOVING- FOOL,ROBO.' PLANS, SPACEHAWK'S SHIP
AHEAD.' THEN I SHALL ORGANIZE A WAR RACES TOWARD MARS,...
MACHINE BEFORE THE VERY MENTION
WHICH PEOPLES OF OTHER WORLDS WILL
CRINGE IN TERROR.' YES, BV SHEER FORCE
AND MY SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE, I SHALL ,

QUICKLN RULE THE WHOLE SOLAR SYSTEM 1

SPACEHAWK'S APPEARANCE
IS NOW MYSTERIOUSLY
B.AFFUMG.
 by potent thought
mpulses, he commands
^ hisrobot pilot to take
the crhft back up into
the dark stratosphere,
then he bounds swiftly
toward hul60, the
martian capital..

what; why you LISTEN, GLORK! IF YOU

INSOLENT DOG/ WITH ONE CANT COOL Off WITHOUT
HOW'D YOU &ET IN LIGHTNING TAKING YOUR SPITE OUT .
HERE? I'LL MURDER MOVEMENT ON YOUR OWN PEOPLE, /
YOU, YOU— SPACEHflUilK GET OFF THIS PLANET
SAY-WHO ARE. YOU? FLICKS THE RIGHT NOW.' OTHERWISE
WEAPON YOU WON'T LIVE LONG
ASIDE, AND ENOUGH TO GET THE
SEIZES GLORK, CHANCE TO LEAVE.' /
 FIVE YEARS I'VE SPENT
GLORK HURRIES TO ONE DEVELOPING THIS ATTRACTOR TWO METAL OBJECTfMOVE
OF THE LABORATORY MACHINE IN SECRET UP FROM THE TOP OF THE
ROOMS, RNO MOKES PREPARING IT FOR THE LARORATORY BUILDING-....
HASTY ADJUSTMENTS ON TIME WHEN I'D USE IT TO
SOME OF HIS COMPLEX CONQUER OTHER PLHUETS.'
APPARATUS.. BUT NOW I'M GOING TO
USE IT TO DESTROY THIS
PLANET AND ITS MISERABLE,
UNGRATEFUL INHABITANTS!
JUST TO MAKE SURE THE
MACHINE IS IN GOOD ORDER,
I'LL USE IT ON THOSE TWO
SHIPS ON THE HORIZON.' r'

THE FORCE IS SUCH THAT IT

GREATLY MULTIPLIES THE
NATURAL MASS ATTRACTION THAT
ANY OBJECT HAS FOR ANOTHER
OBJECT AND THE CRAFT ARE
SWIFTLY DRAWN TOWARD EACH
OTHER...

AHA! IT IS WORKING
BEAUTIFULLY! NOW TO TRAIN
ONE OF THE ATTRACTOR
BEAMS ON VONDER MOUNTAINS,
AND THE OTHER ON PHOBOS,
ONE OF THE MARTIAN MOONS,
THE MOON WILL BE PLUCKED
OUT OF THE SKY, AND VJHEN
IT HITS MARS, EVERY ONE
—
ON THE PLANET WILL PERISH
EXCEPT ME'
THP SAVAGE INHABITANT?.
OF PHoBOS ARE TERROftOED
QY a SUDDEN GROUND-SPLITTING
QUAKE AS TtlE SMALL PLANET"
IS VANKED FROM ITS ORBIT..
 i'll get rid of
\ BEFORE SPACEHflVJK CAM CHANGE L^ all of them THE MARTIAN LEAPS TO THE
Athe CONTROL'S, GLORK'S mew 1 right now.' the EXTREME END OF THE ROOM,
[SUDDENLY SWARW UPON HIM. creatures in AND VflNKS ft HIDDEN LEVER..
the: pit below
HAVEN'T HAD ft
FULL MEAL IN A
LONG TIME

C@t

vfi^i^
*^, )C^feH
 ONLY A LITTLE LONGER,
AND MARS WILL BE A
SHATTEREO, BLOOD-SOAKED
PLANET.' I'DBETTER GET
MY VALUABLES AND GET
OUT OF HERE BEFORE tT
15 TOO LATE.'

GLORK PREPARES TO LEAVE

AS HIS DESTRUCTION OF
MARS CONTINUES.

A^k KHMlILL
BENEflTH THE FLOOR,
n
THE FLOOR FALLS
T 1

OPEN, AND
I II <K)NEi r HATE TO
LET HIM ESCAPE,
SPACEHAWK'S GREAT SPACEHAWK CAUTIOUSLY ASCENDS BUT T MUST REVER5E
STRENGTH FINALLY ENABLES INTO THE LABORATORY.... THE ATTR ACTOR r
HIM TO TEAR OUT A PART OF BEAM FORCE RIGHTj
THE TRRP DOOR MECHANISM...

SPACEHAWK'S KEEN MIND MARS QUAKES AS THE TIDAL

QUICKLY ABSORBS THE PULL IS SUDDENLY REVER5ED-
PRINCIPLES OF THE
MACHINE, AND HE SWIFTLY
MAKES ADJUSTMENTS..

•THERE/ THAT SHOULD

SOON SHOVE PHOBOS BACK
INTO ITS ORBIT/
 J
RIGHT.' I'VE REVERSED YOUR
flTTROCTOR'S POWER, GLORK/
PHOBOS WILL SOON BE" ON
ITS WW BACK, AND A PEVJ
I BILLION PEOPLE ARE GOING-
u TO BE PRETTY flNGM WHEN
RETURNING THEY FIND OUT WHO tS
TO TAKE RESPONSIBLE FOR VJHflT'S
ANOTHER HAPPENED.
LOAD OF
VALUABLES
TO HIS
SHIP,
SLORK IS
AJAAZ.ED
AT WHAT
HE SEES....

SPACEHAWK DODGES WITH

INCREDIBLE SWIFTNESS, AMD
POUNCES ON THE /AflRTlAN.
r**^i

1 lull 1
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i!Pa>- —/J"

m^M
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•

fegldlSp
 I'LL TURN THE
ATTRACTOR POWER
^ SOMETHING'S THE
MATTER.' I'M f
BACK TO ITS FORMER HEADING- BACK
CONDITION, AND
*-
TOWARD GROUND.'
SWING- THE HIGH
ROY ON GLORK'S SPACEHAWK
THAT SHOULD LEAPS
SHIP.'
DRAG HIM BACK.' i
ml. FROM
THE
BUILDING-,
AND THE
NEXT-
INSTANT
THE
MARTIAN'S
SHIP
PLOUGHS
INTO
W ^Sr (• THE
LABORATORY.

yy/>r fr

AND THAT'S THE TVE PEOPLE OF

STORY, KING ROBO.' THIS PLANET OVWE
VOUR PEOPLE SHOULD VOU THEIR LIVES,
KNOW THE REASON SPACEHAWK/ I
LATER, FOR THE NEAR IMPLORE YOU TO
IN HIS CALAMITY. RETURN TO MARS
PALACE, OTHERWISE THEY THAT WE MAY AT ^
KING MIGHT FEAR LEAST THANK YOU/j- SPACEHAWK'S
ROBO IT AGAIN.' ADVENTURES
LISTENS WITH THE
TO JUNGLE
SPACEHAWK MONSTERS
AS HE ON THE
EXPLAINS, PLANET
BY TELSOR URANUS
WAVE APPEAR IN
FROM TARGET
HIS SHIP, COMICS
ALLTHAT NEXT
HAS MONTH.
HAPPENED...
THE SUPERHUMAN ENEMY OF CRIME •
 WHAT 15 THIS ?I SO WHAT? I'M THE
THE URflNIAN PIRATES CAN'T YOU SEE I U^ LOW IN THIS
SWIFTLY OVERCOME THE WE'RE INTERPLANETARY h TOWN, AND WHEN
UNSUSPECTING POLICE.. POLICE? )— J
J COPPERS COME
[SNOOPING AROUND
.JHERE, WE FEED THEM
(TO THE JUNGLE BEA5TS.'

OVER THE WALL

WITH THESE SWI •IE

YMO CALL THEM

SELVES THE LAW
J
V

<

ONLY SLIGHTLY INJURED BY HIS FALL

CAPTAIN DAKK MIRACULOUSLY
DARTS FROM UNDER THE SNARLING
BEASTS, AND RUMS FOR THE JUNGLE..
 SPACEHAUJK PATIENTLY WAITSE
HT THE DOOR OF HIS SHIP.
PRESENTLY THE GROUND
QUAKES WITH THE APPROACH
OF A BEAST. THE JUNGLE
GROWTHS PART. AND -

I'LL HAVE TO WORK FAST.' NO TELLING WHEN

I MONSTROUS HORNOSAUR CRASHED SOME OTHER BEAST WILL DECIDE TO i
INTO VIEW/ LEAPING IN FRONT OF INTERRUPT THIS OPERATION.'
THE CREATURE, SPACEHAWK SPRAYS
A POTENT ANESTHETIC INTO ITS
NOSTRILS....

TTLE OF THIS
LEAVING IN THAT RAY, AND THE
PART OF THE INCISIONS WILL BE*
BRAIN WHICH CON- COMPLETELY HEALED.'
TROLS THE HORN-
OSAURS MUSCLES,
SPACEHAUIK RE-
MOVES THE REST,
AND SKILLFULLY
SUBSTITUTES. THE
HUMAH BRAIN OF
CAPTAIN DflKK.
HE SHOULD RECOVER can you under5tand
FROM THE ANESTHETIC me? if you're all

YES —
ANY MINUTE NOW/
HE'S
BEGINNING TO MOVE
right; nod your head.'

HE'S NODDING HI GOOD LUCK TO YOU,

HEAD .'THE OPERATION AND DON'T WORRY ABOUT
IS A SUCCESS. BUr AVENGING YOUR MEN/
THE POOR BRUTE WILL I THINK. ILL BE ABLE
NEVER BE ABLE TO TO TAKE CARE OF

5PACEHAWK! COME JUBUN, I'VE COME TO V BUT SPACEHflWK.-

RIGHT IN.' THIS IS AN -
I

SETTLE WITH YOU AND H 5URELY YOU'RE NOT

UNEXPECTED PLEASURE. YOUR MEN FOR DESTROYING ACCUSING ME OF
J THE POLICE SHIP THAT SUCH A THING.' THE
"\LANDE0 HERE THIS MORNING MOMENT I HEARD
ABOUT IT, I ORDERED
THE OFFENDERS
CLAMPED IN THE
TORTURE RACKS/
I DON'T TOLERATE
MURDERERS IN
THIS CITY/
I'M NOT HERE TO LISTEN TO
YOUR LIES, JU9UN.' YOU
AND YOUR FOLLOWERS HAVE
TO PAS FOR VOUR CRIMES,
AND I'M HERE TO SEE THAT
YOU DO pay:
 UP ON HERE COMES A WHOLE 1
WITH HIS WEN THE WALL, ARMY OF JUNGLE
BOlSTEROUSLl ONE OF MONSTERS.' LOOKS OS L
JEERING SPACE- THE GUARDS THOUGH -THEY' RE GOING 1
HAWK, JUBUN GLANCES TO TRY CRASHING INTO
PUTS ALL H ft OUT TOWARD THE crrY/,
MAD STRENGTH THE JUNGLE.
INTO THE THE SWllflK
FIRST BLOW... FADES FROM
HIS LIPS
AS HE
STARES
AT AH
ALARNUNG
SIGHT....

M THAT
i
LED BT THE HORNOSAUR
lb NOUJ DOMINATED
BW CAPTAIN DAKK'S
BRAIN, THE CREATURES
THUNDER FORTH AND
HURL THEIR GREAT
t 30DIES AGAINST THE WALL.

AS THE BEAST* CRASU

TURD THE WALLS, THE
5CREAWIN&URANIAN5
FLEE IN ALL DIRECTIONS,
LEAVIM& 5PACEHALUK
SHACKLED TO THE
TORTURE WINCH. JUST
AS THE CHARGING
HORNOSHUR WOULD
CRUSH HIM, THE CREATURE
RECOGNIZES SPACEHAWK.
 JUBUN, VJHO HQS
TJARTED TO SAFETV
AT THE FIRST SIGN OF
DAGGER, ftUSHESTO
HIS PRIVATE HANGAR...

cS^W^rP

THOSE BHUTES WILL &ET

THERE GOES JUBUN. VIE
SPACEHAWK AND MY MEN, SPACEHAWK'S KEEN CANT LET HI* ESCAP
BUT THEY WONT GET ME.' E-fES SPOT JUBUN'S
SHIP
FROM
EMERGING
HIS QUARTERS.
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THE HORfJOSRUR LUNGER
TOWARD THE SHIR AND
WPS IT OPEN.
NOT 60TH OF us, jubun; JUST
100.' OFF TOU &D, AND VOU'RE
GETTIN& MORE OF A BREAK
THAN TOU GAVE THE
INTERPLANETARY POLICE.'

IN SPACEHAWK'S NEXT ADYENTURE,

HE RND AN OLD FRIEND BATTLE ft
HORDE OF DOG-MEN FROM NEPTUNE
IT 15 IN NEXT MONTH'S .
TARGET COMICS/
 THE SCRATCHES
OF DOOM
A Sjaacekawk Adventure
iy fiei'd IVclvctton

SPACEHAWK stared at the

atom gun there in his hand —
and this note."
grotesquely sprawled corpse "It's Meredith's writing,"Gray-
Grayson took the proffered
on the floor. Then his gray, son observed.
piece of paper, and read it again
piercing eyes darted around the "Right!" Spacehawk agreed.
office,taking in every detail un- "Dear Al: "But there's a peculiar thing
der the brilliant rays of his elec- I want you to know that about that note. Look at it close-
tron flashlight. I've appreciated the chance to ly —between the lines!"
"I can't believe Meredith work with you here on the Grayson held the paper closer
would take his own life," he said Venus Diamond Mines' smug- to his eyes, and Spacehawk
to Al Grayson, Chief of the In- gling case. But since, my w'tie moved his light so that its rays
ter-planetary Bureau of Investi- died, I haven't felt like carry- fell at a slant upon the note.
gation on Venus, who stood be- ing on. Sorry to let you down "Hmm!" Grayson muttered.
side him. "This doesn't smell of this way, but it's too much "That is peculiar. Wonder what
suicide to me, even with his tor me. Jack Meredith." caused that?"
 Spacehawlc returns by popular request
—
to match his keen brain against
the wits of a murderer.
"If I can find out," Spacehawk
know the
replied, "perhaps we'll
real reason Meredith is dead!
Have the boys round up Gul
Jopak, the Venusian who swore
that as soon as he was freed
from prison, he'd get Meredith.
Jopak has been out about a Mines, you're a busy man, but
week now."
SEVERAL hours later Space-
hawk sat gazing across his
desk into the gaunt, green
face of Gul Jopak.
"I'll give you one more chance,
Jopak," he said, "for you to tell
me where you were all last
night."
The Venusian nervously rub-
bed his long, scaly fingers. His
beady eyes shot a venomous
look at his questioner.
"No tell!" he hissed. "No tell
nothing!"
"All right, Jopak," Spacehawk
said. Then he opened a drawer,
took out the first description
card that came within his reach,
and pushed it toward Jopak.
"Tell me if you've seen any
one answering that description
in the last week," he said.
The Venusian glanced sus-
Spacehawk
piciously at the card.
watched him closely, saw his
mouth jerk slightly after the
manner of one whose lips move
in silent reading. Suddenly the
Venusian straightened up his
head, and looked nervously
about him.
"No tell nothing!" he repeated
in a voice that wavered with
both irritation and fright.
Spacehawk turned to Gray-
son, and nodded toward the
door. Grayson strode across the
room, and admitted a squatty,
hairy-faced Martian. The fellow
waddled swiftly into the office,
his yellow, saucer-like eyes roll-
ing ludicrously in his large, ro-
tund head as he took in his sur-
roundings.
—
"Here I am, Spacehawk," the
Martian rumbled in the bass
tones characteristic of his race.
"What can I do for you?"
"Have a chair, Tylod," Space-
hawk said. "I realize that as fore-
man of the Venusian Diamond
I've called you over here to take
a look at this Venusian. I'd like
to know if you've seen him
around the mines lately."
Tylod twisted in his chair,
and blandly surveyed the ner-
vous Jopak from head to foot.
"He looks very much like any
one of the men we employ at
the mines," Tylod commented.
"Is there some special reason
why I should recognize him?"
"He's the one who tried to rob
the diamond vaults last year be-
fore you worked for the mining
company. Here's the dope on
the case."
Spacehawk extended some pa-
pers to Tylod. The Martian
dragged his chair up close to the
desk, laid them out flat before
him. Leaning forward, so that
his bulgy eyes nearly touched
his hairy hand, he slowly drew
his claw-tipped forefinger along
under each line as he read.
Suddenly Jopak leaped to his
feet, threw his bony arms into
the air and screamed, "You no
right to put me back in prison!
I just let out from prison! I good
man now! No reason for go
back!"
Like an arrow he streaked
across the room and thru the
door. Grayson whipped out his
atom pistol, and leaped in pur-
suit.
"Let him go!" Spacehawk
shouted.
"But, Spacehawk!" Grayson
burst out in amazement. "That
*
fellow
"He's not the man I was look-
ing for!" Spacehawk cut in.
"May I ask what this is all
about?" Tylod said.
Spacehawk's voice was like a
knife as he answered, "You know
even more about this than I do,
Tylod. You are the one who
murdered Jack Meredith last
night!"
THE Martian came up from
his flabby chin
chair, his
shaking in amazement.
Then, quick as a lightning flash,
he flicked an ugly atom pistol
out from beneath his cloak, and
fired point blank at Spacehawk's
head.
As the Martian whirled to
pick off Grayson, a tiny, blue
flame spit into his chest, for the
I. B. I. Chief already had his pis-
tol in his hand. Tylod clawed
the air, uttered a low groan, and
upon his back.
fell
"Good work, old fellow!"
Spacehawk said.
Grayson whistled with relief.
"Thought he got you!" he said.
"He was too near-sighted to
hit even the broad side of a
space liner!" Spacehawk ex-
claimed. "In fact, it was his near-
sightedness that proved he was
Meredith's murderer. Meredith
confided in me that he suspected
Tylod of smuggling diamonds
from the mines. Tylod apparent-
ly learned of this so he forced
Meredith to write that suicide
note, thenmurdered him.
"Naturally Tylod read the
note,and having bad eyes, as do
most Martians, ran his fore-claw
under each line, like a child
learning to read. That's what
caused those faint scratches you
saw between the lines of Mere-
dith's note.
"And Tylod made the same
faint scratches on the paper I
gave him to read!"
THE END
SPACEHAWK
SUPERHUMAN ENEMY OF CRIME
IN A WILD, FORESTED , \»
y
REGION OF THE PLfiNET * vQ
w
SATURN. THE POWERFUL
SPACEHAWK HUNTS FOR ^
»tf",

IT'5 GREAT |"BOH -I JUST

SEEIN& YOU Li-STRflMELlN& FROM PLANET
A&AlN, &ALAR.' IjJTO PLANET.' AND YOU—
WHAT HAVE YOU M YOU'VE MADE QUITE A NAMEI
n
BEEN DOING ALL"] FOR YOURSELP CRACK.IN& 1
THESE YEARS? pi'jJjXttW ON THE BAD BOY5/ ^d

W?*$MfiP$W^if flit ia !

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iS*fi
GAlflR, ODR KlMD TALKS WITH THE MIND THAT 19 EjQMETHING
AS WELL AS WITH THE TONGUE, BUT YOU QF A RECORD. I
HAVE THROWN UP A MEHTAL BARRICADE DARE SAY, BUT \T
AGAINST ME/ WHAT ARE VQU TRYING- _. DOESN'T E*CU5E
TO HIDE?, YOUR BEING A THIEF.
T MUST WARN ^OU,
&ALHR, THAT IF I
EVER CATGH VOU
ROBBING A SHIP,
I'LL HAVE TO TREAT
VOU AS AN ENEM.V.'
NEPTUNIQN5,
PLUTOWIAN&
AND oovm«&
POUR OUT
OF. THE
PIRATE SKIP.
UNDAUNTED
BY THE
GUN FIRE
FROM THE
LINER, THEY
"PREPARE TO
CUT INTO
THE HULL
PLATES,

SOME OF THE FLEEING f L>ET BACK TO WORK OfJ THAT

PIRATEf ATTEMPT TO LINEP.VOL) VELLQUJ-LIUERED r
TAKE "REFUGE IN THEIR MORONS.' I'LL TAKE CARE J
J
5HIP, BUT THE LUNARIAN
CAPTAIN OF THEIR CRAFT
1 OF 5PflCEElALUK_r_
j ^^^-
BARS THEIR WAY

tfei^z;

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Wt ' fcT^^W'

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1

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^y^r^M, '
'
— BUT BEFORE THE FIERY FORCE
CAN CUT THRU THE METAL, HE
LEAPS UPWARD
VJELL.SPACEHAuJK,BOTH OUR SHIPS HAVE
FLOWN OFF INTO SPACE, AND WE'LL NEVER
—
9EE THE/A AGAIN.' WE'LL HAVE TO USE THE
PIRATE CRATE TO ESCAPE FROM HERE.'
 MY SHIP WILL BE HERE
SHORT VJHILE- WHEN I'M HOT
AT THE CONTROLS, I UbE
TELEPATHY TO GUIDE IT

ANOTHER REPTILE
DIVE5 AT CtflLRR,
/-
HURLING HIM, TO
THE GROUND...

Bill
1

*s?r *&%%&^ss™
Hi
tt0sj^L.-
5PACEHAWK STRU&&LES TO
KEEP ONHIS FEET, BUT THE
VULTOlDS PORCE HIM DOWN....

YOU'VE 5AVED MY LIFE, GRLAR, THERE ARE THOUSANDS

SPACEHAUJK.'TOD BAD I'M NOT
WORTHY OF THE DEED/ ,
OF SOLAR SYSTEMS IN THIS
UNIVERSE. MANY OFTHEM NEED
STRONG- MEN TO MAINTAIN LAW
AND ORDER. WHY DON'T YOU ^
PICK OUT ONE OF THErt, JU5TJ
AS t HAVE DONE, AND FlGHTj
AGAINST CRIME?

BY THE BELT OF ORION, I'LL WHAT/ YOU MEAN THIS TUB

DO IT.' BUT WAIT/-I CAN GO THAT FAST? WHY, -
ALMOST FORGOT THAT X ,
YOU'D HAVE TO TRflUEL A
NO LONGER HAVE A SHIP.'
i MILLION MILES AN HOUR.'
YOU'LL GET YOUR SHIR
r &BLBR/ WE'LL START
OVERTAKING IT NOW.'
 NOW TO GET BACK To
SATURN, AND FINISH THF PS
HUNTING I STflHTFO.' BS.

r SHOULD HAVE
PREVAILED -w
UPON GflLflR
TO COME WITH
WE HE WOULD
J

ENJOV IT/
^g
£w MA?

SPflCEHAWK.'^&M.HR.'|c

Jill) Mcc L

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^13$^^
THE TIME HAS COME TO ASK
ON .THE PLANET GUEEN HABA TO MARRY ME!
NEPTUNE, IN THE AS KING, I'LL BUILD UP THE ARMY I ANIMATED BY THE I
KINGDOM OF THE AND SMASH EVERY OTHER NATION I NEPTUNIAN BREWl
NOOMITES, THE ON THIS GLOBE IF HABA REFU5ES-
,' I HE HAS IMBIBED, T
AMBITIOUS- I'LL FINDANOTHER WRY TO GAIN ISMEBAR &OE5 AT I
CAPTAIN OF THE NOTHING IS GOING TO STOP
POUJEft.' I ONCE TO THE QUEENJ
GUARD BROODS N£,5MEBAR, FROM BECOMING
OVER AN EVIL MASTER OF THE PLANET NEPTUNE/
SCHEMF.
I BEG VOU TO ACCEPT
toE,ftti QUEEN.' T CAN
HELP WAKE toU THE
GREATEST RULER OF ALL
TIME TOMORROW I
.'

SHALL RETURN FOR

.TOUR ANSWER
AS SPACBHAYdK STARTS
BACK TOWARD HIS SHIP.
HABA'S AIRCAR DROPS
FROW TME SKY.
PERHAPS I SHOULD[TALL RIGHT/
BE. ANGRY WITH YOUANYTHING
FDR WHAT YOU'UE M TO KEEP
DONE. I'LL OVER- YOUR
LOOK IT — IF YOU'LL
]

GOOD WILL/
ACCEPT MY
INVITATION.'

SPACEHALUK, YOU KNOW I'VE
ALWAYS LOVED YOU.'
WHOLE KINGDOM IS YOURS
IF YOU WILL MARRY ME
TOGETHER, THEN. WE CAN
CONQUER AND RULE
THIS PLANET.'
HISTORY SHOULD TEACH YOU THAT WARLIKE,
GREEDY RULERS ALWAYS COME TO BAD ENDS'
'
CONSIDER THE MARTiANS-HOW THEY BROUGHT
DESTRUCTION ON THEMSELVES WHEN THEY FOUGHT
TO OVERCOME THE SATURNlANS/ AND WATCH
WHAT HAPPENS TO THE NATIONS THAT WISl
TO DOMINATE EARTH TODAY.
NO ONE 15 GOIN& TO FLO& ME, MY DEAR THAT'S THE END OF 1O0! \— "V *5
QUEEN, BECAUSE I'A SOON GOIN& TO BE , JUa«
THE 5PIDER0SAUB IS 1 ~ l <»
RULER OF NOOW! I SHOULD HAUE DONE THIS EATING WELL TODAY. J
IN THE FIRST PLACE \j
ENOUGH TPLK.' toil MEN ARE HERE TO SIGN
THESE DOCUMENTS WAKING ME ABSOLUTE
RULER OF NOOM.' I'LL GIVE YOU THREE
MINUTES TO GET -/OUR SIGNATURES OM THEM,
OR I'LL MOW VOL! RLL DOWN IN A HEAP'
I WELL, HABA, ARE YOU I'M GLAD TO HEAR THAT,
I TO BE A
t&TILL INCLINED HABA.' MO\U I MUST GO.
| PLANET CONQUERER? AND NEXT TIME YOU
WANT ME, TJON'T GO TO
| NOT A BIT, SPACEHfluk THE EXPENSE OF PUTTING
I FROM NOW I'M GOING ON A SHAM BATTLE.' iw-
|TO CONCENTRATE ON GOOD SYE, AND
y— GOOD
1 BEING A BETTER RULER
LOUER WIRT I HAVE.'
LUCKJ j-
— — J

BUT SPACEHAUK DOES SEE

HABA AGAIN. WHEN HE. OUTWITS
_
THE CRAFTY OLD SCIENTIST OF
NOONt IN THE NEXT ISSUE OF.
....TARGET COMICS....
 '

MY DEAR QUEEN, WHAT DO YOU MEAN?

DHOON IMMEDIATELY BEING A FAMOUS I HAVE WAYS OF I WAS UNDER THE
LEAVES HIS LABORATORY, SCIENTIST, HE IS KNOWING MANY IMPRESSION YOU CAME
WHICH IS IN A REMOTE QUICKLY GRANTED THINGS, AND J TO DISCUSS AFFAIRS
PART OF THE KINGDOM, AN AUDIENCE CN\ AWARE THAT OF STATE NOT ,

AND FLIES TO THE k-iWlTH QUEEN HABA, IT WOULD MEAN MY PERSONAL AFFAIRS.'
ROYAL PALACE.... ft RULER OF NOQM. MUCHTOYQUIF
THE GREAT SPACEHAWK
WERE TO RETURN THE
FEELING YOU HAVE
CONCERNING- HI/A
A CONSIDERATION.' PLAYING CUPID .'
IF ONLY X CAN RELY
ALL I ASK IS THE YJELL-THERE&ION ON DROON/ THE OJAH
BARREN LANDS OF IS WORTHLESS. VALLEY IS ASMALL
THE OJAH VALLEY, I SHALL DEED IT PRICE TO PAY IF
SO THAT r MAY TO YOU - IF AND T COULD LEARN THAT
CONDUCT CERTAIN WHEN YOU SHOW SPACEHAUJK CARE5 FOR
AGRICULTURAL TESTS. ME THAT YOU ARE ME."
DEED IT TO ME. RIGHT IN THI5
AND I SHRLL MATTER.'
DISCREETLY ARRHN&E
MATTERS IN SUCH A WAY THAT
SPACEHAWK WILL QUICKLY ARRIVE,

AND NOW, WITH THI&

HOT IRON, I'M
GOING TO ROUSE
HOUR HATRED.' IT
IS THE THING THAT
WILL BRING
SPACEHAWK TO ME.'
YOU'D LIKE TO KILL ME, WOULDN'T YOU, .

JOD? FINE.'THAT'S THE WAY I WANT YOU

TO FEEL! NOW I'LL TURN THIS SWITCH,,
AND THAT APPARATUS OVER YOUR HEAD
\WiLL PICK UP AND BROADCAST YOUR
HATRED VIBRATIONS/
NOW I MUST STAKE SOME SORT OF RHY 1
EVERYTHING DM MY MACHINE, EH? UJHY I
HYPNOTIC ABILITY/ WERE YOU ABOUT „
HIS MIMD MAY BE TO USE IT ON
STRONGER THAN MINE YOUR PRISONER ?
IN SOME RESPECTS,
BUT NO MIND CAN
WITHSTAND THE
TERRIFIC POWER OF
HYPNOSIS I HAVE
DEVELOPED IN MY
BRAIN.'

AH.'TME GREAT THE MACHINE BEGINS

SPftCEHAWK IS TO WHINE, AND A
PARALYZED UNDER SLOWING BEAM SI
MY POWERFUL HYP- FORTH TO ENVELOP
NOTIC SPELL.' BUT SPACEHAUJK'S HEAD.
I DARE NOT TAKE
ANY CHANCES/ I
SHALL PIERCE HIS
BRAIN WITH THE
MEMORY-KILLER RAY.'
THEN I CAN HANDLE
HIM AS I WOULD A
CHILD -EVEN FROM
A GREAT DISTANCE.'
 This wry, vqur highness,
his injury is not as serious
as i thought at first.'
A TflHK OF COMPRESSED fllR
EXPLODED OS HE STEPPED INTO
THE SHIP'S AIRLOCK CHAMBER.
HE HAS REGAINED HIS. SENSES,
BUT THE CONCUS5ION SEEMS TO
HAVE LEFT HIS MIND CLOUDED.'
 I FOR A LONG- Tl*E I'VE BEEN PERHAPS, THOUGH,
I WANTING TO TELL YOU WHAT THIS ISN'T THE TH
I YOU MEAN TO ME,HABA.' AND TO SAY ttUCH ABOUT
I NOW THAT THIS HAS HAPPENED- IT/ MY HEAD - IT
FEELS A BIT QUEER.
THAT WAS QUITE A
A BLAST iN'Jftl SHIR
YOU KNOW.' IT'S A
GOOD THING- MY l
FRIEND DROOH ,

BROUGHT ME IN .'

perfect; DROON, WE MUST GET

everything is HIM TO A DOCTOR,' HE
WORKlHG OUT ACTS AND TALKS AS
ITO MY ADVANTAGE THOUGH HIS MIND WERE
IN A FOG.' —
I [

NOfNO.' ^

INCIDENTALLY, YOUR HIGHNESS SPACEHAIUK'S KbhNgl UoN'T WORRY, HflBA.'gl WHRT—

I THINK YOU'LL AGREE THAT
I'M NOW ENTITLED TO THAT
EARS CATCH EVERY H
I'M PERFECTLY WELL/B WHAT'S THIS?
WORD. SUDDENLY Wf AND NOW THAT I 1 STRND BACK
DEED TO THE GJAH VALLEY/
I'VE EARNED IT BY BRINGING
HE LEAPS UP H
KNOW WHAT YOUR
H PURPOSE
m THERE.' I
DROON, ffl COMMAND
GOING TO — rfeJ YOU TO
IS,
YOU AND SPACEHAWK TOGETHER,J ,I'/A ,

JUST AS I PROMISED.' j STAND BACK!

WHY ARE YOU IN SUCH A
7 HURRY FOR YOUR REWARD?
YOU'LL GET IT JUST A5
SOON AS I CAN BE SURE ,,
THAT SPACEHAWK IS WELL.'
FOOL.' YOUR HYPNOTISM AND YOUR MErtORY-KlLLER YOU MISERABLE CHEAT'
RAY HAUEN'T HAD THE SLIGHTEST EFFECT ON MY YOU'LL SPEND THE REST OF
ffiWD-' I'VE BEEN PLAYING ALONG TO DISCOVER YOUR -YOUR LIFE IN A DUNGEON.'
GAME I NOU) THAT YOUR MIND IS FULL OF FEAR, I
CAN READ IN IT VJHY YOU WANT THE OJAH VALLEY
.'

YOU'\IE FOUND THAT IT CONTAINS RICW MltJERAL

DEPOSITS/ YOU INTENDTO USE THEM IN YOUR
PLAN TO CONQUER THE EARTH NOW THAT
THEY ARE EMBROILED IN A WAR AND
 —
HE - HE'S BREAKING- I'LL SET ANOTHER GUN
THRU THE DOOR/ j— AND FINISH THEto BEFORE
THEY CRN ESCAPE.'';
f

fe^' v^W —\ ^,
8t
is / ° 1

3^«^_>

^^^^
,
fOU — JOD.' HOUJ DID YOU
GET LOOSE ? GO flWHf
FROM MEI
mJ I

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EVERYTHING SEEMS TO BE OKAY HERE
IN THE SKY. NOT AN OBJECT IN SI&HT,
EXCEPT THAT APPROACHING ASTEROID.
I'D BETTER &IUEITAW1DE BERTH.
IT'S DUE TO PASS THRU THIS SECTION
OF THE STRATOSPHERE VERY SOON .'
WE MUST OPERATE BEFORE THE
REAL ASTEROID COMES WITHIN
RANGE OF EARTH'S TELESCOPES,
HAKl/ LITTLE DO" THE" SMU&
AMERICANS REALISE THAT THEY
ARE &AZING UP AT A HOLLOW
METAL SHELL PROPELLED Bt
CONTROLLED MASS ATTRACTION
AND LIFTED BY GIANT ANTI
GRflVW UNITS/
TWE FIRST ASTEROID
WASN'T "JER *1

RUGGED. ....HO
CHANCE TO HIDE
SHIPS.' JUST THE
9AME, I'D BETTER
HAVE ANOTHER LOOK
AT IT THRU THE
ELECTROSCOPE
 f WITH PLEASURE,
BELOW, MILLIONS OF PEOPLE KORU/ HERE
GAZ.E FEARFULLY UPWARD, GOES THE STUFF
WONDER HOW THE GIGANTIC 1
S THAT WILL BLAST
OBJECT CRN HALT IN MID- ,
THEIR G-REAT CITY
SKY TERRIFIED At [INTO A SMOKIM& CRATER!
WHAT MAY HAPPEN
EVEN IN THE RARIFIED Alft OF THE STRATOSPHERE THIS IS MY CHANCE!
SPACEHAttlK AND KORL! HEAR THE DETONATION. TAKE HIM
I'LL
TEE TFilUMPWW SNEER FADES FRO/A KORlt'S FACE. SOMEWHERE BUT
THEY-THEY MUST
IT WONT BE TO
RIGHT/ AMD YOU'RE NOT THE CONTROL ROOM!
EXPLODED
HAVE GOING TO LIVE LOM&
IN mid -ski ENOUGH TO LEARN HOVJ
A&AIN IT HAPPENED EITHER TIME.'
LEAD ME TO THE CONTROL
— ROOM'

'SUDDENLY THE
ROOM IS
FILLED WITH
CHARGING MEN,
BUT. THEIR
COMBINED
STRENGTH IS
w ft-
c

AS
L

NOTHING AGAINST ^/o^n\

SPACEMAN'S,
NOR ARE THEIR
&i<*M fc

WEAPONS EFFECT-
IIYE AGAINST HIS
SPACE ARMOR. L i: W^^\
SILENCE, MORON .'IF YOU'D
SEEN MORE ALERT AT THE
TELESCOPES, THIS WOULDN'T
NOW THAT I HAVE THIS THIMG
OUT OF THE LOUiER STRATO-
SPHERE, I MUST LOCATE THE"
REAL ASTEROID.' V££/-TttERE|
IT 15 C04MN& THIS WAY, AND
JUST IN THE RIGHT POSITION
FOR WHAT I VJANTY

SRACEMAWK
CLASHES WITH THEENENYF0KE5
AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA.
Mi
bd SHI
the presence of mines hebe SPACErtAwK.'5 ELECTRO&COPE
-would be an extremeli SOON SHOWS A PECULIAR
5erious matter.' the pacific OBJECT FLOATING A FEW ,

fleet has just passed thru WILES FROM THE EXPLODED J

THE PflMAMA CANAL, AND 15
HEADED THIS WAV.' I'D SETTER
&0 QUER EVER FOOT OF THE
1
?

SURFACE IN THIS -AREA.'

 ,

"
-vn y--
-

SPACEHAWK DRIFTS DOWNWARD,

MOMENTARILY EXPECTING TC>
MEET A SUBMflRfNE, FINALLY,
AS> HE NEARS THE BOTTOM, A
MONSTROUS METAL THlNCr
LUMBER9 SLOWLY OUT OF
THE WATERY SHADOWS .'

A (HflNT UNDERSEA TANK IT'S HEADED TOWARD THE CANAL!

ALWOST UNBELIEVABLE.' WHY IF THE MEN 1N9IDE it AREN'T
SUCH A MACHINE COULD SINK AWARE THAT A WHOLE FLEET OF
THE BATTLESHIPS IS HEADED THIS WAY,

'PACIFIC THEY'LL SOON DISCOVER 117 _^j—

I MUSI CUT THHTCAHLt Kail
TO THE*
LEADING-
MECHANICALS r
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P-i'Jf" ''

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nils,;'
KW ,
'

id
;

'j
bLOWLf HE SWIMS UP TO THE
EfE LINE, AND SEVERS IT WITH
A BLAST T-RQM HIS HIGH
PRESSURE ELECTRON TORCH.
KEEN SENSES,H CAPTAIN.' I'D LIKE TO I
SPACEHflWK^ TAKE A LOOK THRU -J
QUICKLY fBK THAT GADGET.' ma
SEEKS OUT 1 ,.

l/*^ HUH?"!
"
CQMRNDERS WHB1 s this J
P09T.... J^ It t.l

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Jlishtmng SWIFTNESS, RNO
|the grenade explodes
Bfl&AINST THE WALL/

PRINTED IN U.S. A.
 A SPACEHAWK
STORY
ci IKOP t thick
VOtt Mar .
tian lips stretched into a
sardonic grin as he gun-
ned his swift space-ship and
headed off toward Earth.
Below him, on the broad ex-
panse of red Martian tundra,
was the grim prison from which
he had, only a few minutes ago,
been freed. For five long years,
within those walls, he had hated
and cursed his brother, who, in
the meantime, was building the
great tin mining plant Voll
Rukor had tried to build. But in
his rash efforts to push himself
ahead, Voll Rukor had
tempted to swindle his
brother.
But now he was on his way to
execute the revenge, wholly un-
justifiable, that had developed
in his hearttoward his brother.
Martian authorities had given
Rukor back his well-equipped
ship, and before long he would
put a swift end to the project he
imagined should have been his.
AVKh later Rukor's ship
flashed out of the black,
star-studded void, and
swung into an arc parallel to the
Moon's line of curvature. Years
of prospecting on Earth's satel-
lite had made him familiar with
every crater, mountain range and
, sea bed on the plane*.
at- He nosed his ship down to*
own ward an exceptionally* deep
crater,whose weird shadows, not
quite so dark as those in adjoin-
ing craters, showed that this gi-
gantic pit was Rukor's
full of air.
sharp yellow eyes sought out
end feasted upon the sprawling
thing that was intended to be the
largest tin mine and ore smelt-
ing plant in the solar system, and
which, owned by American in-
terests,would be of vital impor-
tance in industry and armament.
Reverse rockets roared, and
the ship came to a stop in a gul-
ley of ancient lava.
Quickly Rukor was out of th«
ship.
In one hand he carried a
heavy metal electron lamp, and
in the other he gripped a deadly
object that was very precious to
him. It was the powerful atom
bomb he had painstakingly con-
structed in the laboratory of his
space-ship during his trip from
Mars.
He went directly to a certain
spot — a pile of lava rocks against
8 towering" cliff. Here, more than
five years before, the Rukor
brothers had discovered the vast
vein of cassiterite, or tin ore.
It took Rukor only a few min-
utes to clear away the rocks.
Then he was inside the tunnel,
and heading in the direction of
the main artery.
Presently he heard the dull
throb of riveters above, and knew
that he was under the construc-
tion site. Carefully he adjusted
the timing device in the bomb,
end squeezed it into a fissure.
His moment had almost ar-
rived. Within a short time, when
he would be thousands of miles
away, a tremendous explosion
would blast in the caverns and
arteries, and the half-finished
buildings above would plunge
down in a heap of rubble that
would be forever a grave for his
brother and the workmen!
He turned and ran, for sud-
denly he felt as though he
couldn't get soon enough.
out
What if the bomb should ex-
plode prematurely?
He tried to run faster, but in*
ttead, he came to an abrupt halt,
and uttered a nervous scream!
DIRECTLY in front of him,
barring his way to free-
dom, was a tall, powerful
figure! Rukor shrank back as he
recognized the piercing, gray
eyes.
"Spacehawk!" he panted in a
dry, quaking voice. Rukor all but
wilted under Spacehawk's mind-
penetrating gaze.
"Voll Rukor, go back and get
that bomb!" Spacehawk snapped.
Rukor's thin' fingers clamped
around the electron lamp he
held before him. His hatred for
Spacehawk was almost as great
as his fear of him!
The heavy lamp flashed thru
the air, directly for SpacehowkU
head. Spacehawk crouched and
whipped himself sideways, but
agile as he was, one end of the
spinning missile struck him a
glancing blow, and he stumbled
against the tunnel wall.
In that instant
around Spacehawk, and darted
away at full
waste time looking behind him,
but in his mind's eye he could
see Spacehawk
pistol, and momentarily he ex-
pected a knife of flame in his
back!
Like a frightened rat he
scrambled over the lava mounds
and fairly dived into his ship.
His trembling fingers seized the
Controls, setting them for a swift
take-off ..but the ship re-
. just failed to do!
mained immobile as a log!
Spacehawk had cut all the
wires! It would recjuire precious
minutes to repair the damage.
Meanwhile ? . . .
He scrambled out of the ship,
climbed to the top of a ridge,
and looked about. No sign of
Spacehawk. Was it possible that
he had injured or perhaps even
killed him?
Si TlDErlLY, Spacehawk shot
out of the tunnel, stopped,
and hurled something into
the sky. There was a low whine
as the object zipped up with the
speed of a bullet.
There was no sound when the
bomb exploded, for Spacehawk
hurled it into the airless void
outside the crater. Just a silent
flash of purple flame against the
Then Spacehawk was upon
the Martian. "It's a
you didn't go after that bomb!"
Spacehawk said. "You might not
have made it in time!"
Before he could realize whit
was happening, Rukor found
himself in Spacehawk's ship, and
planted before a large telsor
screen.
"America has \given
right to some broad powers,"
Spacehawk ground out "but one
thingI can't do is give you your
sentence. The World Court in
America will do that— now/"
Rukor's heart sank. This would
mean another long stretch in
some vile prison. He couldn't
stand it! But what was there to
do? Now the grave face of a
judge appeared on the telsor
Rukor leaped screen, and Spacehawk briefly
gave the details of the Martian's
speed. He didn't treachery. The judge scrutinized
the prisoner. Then he spoke.
"Voll Rukor, I hereby sen-
leveling his blast tence you to ninety days of hard
tabor in the North Prison Camp
of the Moonl"
Rukor sat upright. He could
scarcely believe his ears. Ninety
days! What was a mere ninety
days? In only three months he
could come back, and by some
method or other, do what he had
He grinned to himself at the
judge addressed Spacehawk.
"Spacehawk, you're doing a
1
splendid job of safeguarding Am-
erica and its industries. Would
you please deliver this man to
the Moon's North Prison? If he
stfllhas criminal notion* when
he gets out seven years from
now, I hope you'H be around to
prevent further trouble!"
As the judge's face faded from T
the screen, Rukor sprang from
his chair.
TiTMFrr does he get that
seven year stuff!" he
shouted indignantly. "He
just got thru sentencing me to
ninety days!"
Spacehawk calmly lurveyed
Rukor's angry, distorted face.
"The judge wasn't speaking of
Earth days when he sentenced
you," Spacehawk explained. "He
was speaking of Moon days.
good thing
They're twenty-eight times long--
er than Earth days, you know.
That makes seven Earth years,
doesn't it?"
The suddenly
truth dawned
on Voll Rukor. His shaking jaw
dropped in resignation, and he
slumped to the floor.
me the
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DIRECTLY BELOUI US, HUNDREDS OF RIGHT —UNLESS YOU GIVE

YOUR TANKS ARE ATTACKING A
SWALL NATION.' I'M GOING TO DROP
YOU IN FRONT OF YOUR OUJH
DEATH- DEALING DEVICES, AND GIVE
YOU A DOSE OF YOUR OUJN MEDICIME^
THE ORDER THAT NO SUB-
MARINES ARE TO GO INTO
THE AMERICAN NEUTRALITY
ZONE, OR ATTACK AMERICAN
SHIPS -'/ '

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YOU MY ORDERS NOW.' I'D
(- ME.M005LER, IN NOTHING
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LOSE FACE UJITH MY
BUT MY PAJAMAS? STAFF, MY ARMY, MY
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I POWERS INTO THE DEFENSE OF AMERICA.

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CONVERSATION IN EUROPE.'

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SUBMARINES CAN NOT FAIL.
COMMANDER.' THAT AMERICAN
5H1P WILL BE AT THE BOTTOM
OF THE ATLANTIC WITHIN
TWELVE HOURS/
OUR PILOT REPORTS THAT
OUR PREY IS SEVENTY
MILES DUE UJEST! MAN
SUBMARINES AND LAUNCH
THEM FOB THE JOB.'

IN HIS CELL, SPACE-

HAWK RECCUERS
FROM THE EFFECTS
OF HIS ACCIDENT...

SPACEHAUJK SLrt>5
DOWN ft CORRlDOQ,
AND FINDS
THOSE ARE THE NEW, SINGLE-
<=>0
TORPEDO SUBMARINES.' HMW! r
TWO LAUNCHING- RACKS EMPTY/
APPARENTLY TWO SUBMARINES
HAVE ALREADY BEEN SENT OUT7 1

I'LL mm TO WORK FAST'/

—AND APPLYING THE BY MERNS OF POWERFUL-

ANTI- GRAVITY POWER IN THE MEN ON THE THOUGHT COMMANDS, SW
HIS BELT, SHOOTS INTO CARRIER'S DECK CON HAWK. BRINGS HIS CRAFT
THE SKY AMID A SHOWER NOT BEUE«E THEIR EYES... TO HIM. AND SOON 19
OF BULLETS-.. HEADED TOWARD THE
AMERICAN SHIP....

' 1 1 T\ TV,
MuJ
\JulLL,
 BUT THE SUBMARINES ARE ALREADY A LOOK-OUT
IUITHIH FIRING" RANGE OF THE FREIGHTER, ON THE FREIGHTER
AND ONE OF THE/* RELEASES ITS TORPEDO SPOTS THE
APPROACHING DEATH.

THEN SPACEHAWK SUDDENLY SWOOPS FROM

THE HEAYENS HIS BLAST CANNON ROARS,
.'

SHATTERING THE TORPEDO BEFORE

I ITCAN REACH THE SHIR...
THE AMERICAN SAILORS
ABOARD THE FREIGHTER WITH THE SECOND VICTIM) TRBILIN&
WATCH IN AMAIEdlENT..... BEHIND, SPACEHAIDK'S SHIP ROARS
TOWARD THE SUBmARINE CARRIER...
A WINGLESS LOOK/ ITS I
AIRPLANE' JERKING I

WHAT
REEK
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fi SUB
ANOTHER
OUT OF
IT UP? ' '
THE WATER '

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CARGO- OF RED
CROSS SUPPLIES/IT*"
, WJ
I'm SURE THAT DOWN ON THE CARHIEB-
CAPTAIN WOOLF SPACEHAU1K TAKES
WOULD LIKE TO CAREFUL Aim, AND
HAUE AT LEAST OKE RELEASES THE CRHFT.
OF HIS SUBS BACK/
HERE'S WHERE HE
&ETS IT - RIGHT
IN THE NECK.'

HE WILL
DEFEND
U.I. INDUSTRY
IN AUGUSTS

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MYSTERIOUS DEFENDER OF AMERICA SCANS
THE EAST COAST OF THE CONTINENT.....
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AND OUR SECRET BASE HAS NOT YET BEEN DISCOVERED THE TUNNEL LEADIN& TO
&i OUR ENEMIES.' SO FAR.UJE HAUE BEEN SUCCESSFUL. THE THE LANDING- CAOERN.
REST OF OUR WORK, DEPENDS ON SPEED.' THEREFORE LEAUING YOGEL ALOME\...
OJE MUST STRIKE TONIGHT.' OUR SMALL BOMBERS ARE
SWIFT, AND OUR ATTACK ON U.S. INDUSTRIAL PLANTS
WJILL BE ft COMPLETE SURPRISE YOU Hfl\JE YOUR
. f ml WITHIN A FEU) HOURS 1

ORDERS.' REMEMBER -YOU AAUST DESTROY YOUR OBJECTIVES. MANY OF THE LARGEST
, MANUFACTURING- PLANTS IN
rdTHE UNITED STATES WILL BE
^REDUCED TO
^
=
WHAT
\JO
A BLOW
SPLINTERS.'
IT UJILL
THEIR DEFENSE PRO&RflM!
BE „
 now; now .'let 5 Nor
BE UNSOCIABLE.' I i

DROPPED IN TO SEE
HOW YOUR BLACK /
EVE 15 COMING/E

- and to tell you that SO YOU SNOOPED AROUND YOU AND YOUR KIND ARE
you're making a grave TILL YOU FOUND OUR RATS, WITHOUT REGARD-
mistake in sending ships BASE, EH? WELL, THIS TIME EVEN FOB YOUR OWN MEN,'
to bomb factories in the YOU WON'T GET AWAY FROM WHAT WOULD YOU SAY IF I
united states t what do
,

HERE SO YOU CAN TELL ANY TOLD YOU YOUR SHIPS AREN'T
you imagine the u.s. air ONE ELSE ABOUT IT/ AS GOING TO THE UMlTED
Force will be doing in the FOR OUR SHIPS. OF COURSE STATES ON ANY BOMBING
meantime ? -the fact is, I'M NOT FOOL ENOUGH TO TRIP?
not a one of your BELIEVE THEY'LL COME BACK.'
ships will return! THE IDEA IS, AT ANY COST
TO GET A FEUJ GOOD LICKS
IN ON THAT MOB OF FAT
DEMOCRACY-LOVING AMERICANS. 1
mi*

WHO DO YOU THINK

YOU ARE? NO ONE
CAN STOP THEM NOW.'
THE SHIPS ARE ALREADY
TAKING OFF.' LOOK.' j-
1 I THINK THEY CAN STILL 1 AM I GOING I I LIFTED BY HIS ANTI-GRAVITY
BE STOPPED-' SO LONG/
1
1 I'LLSETTLE WITH YOU LATER. INTO THE SKY/ ^
CRAXY? HE JUMPED! I BELT, SPACEHAUJK ASCENDS TO
HIS SHIP. RND THERE PLANS
HIS NEXT MOVE .

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BUT SPACEHRLUK KEEPS HIS EYES ON THEtfl,
'

ND OtJE BV ONE BLASTS THEM TO EARTH

J -WEN, LIKE fl BATTERIMfr | VOCjEL is LIFTED iNro 1
RBIfl, SPftCEHfllUK'5 STEELV 1
the Air
FIST FLASHES OUT...

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SPACEHAUIK
GOES
AFTER A
DIABOLICAL
GERM-
SPREADINS
SCIENTIST.'
A SWELL
STORY IN

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6uT SPACEMAN'S KEEN SENSES
UJARN HlNV HE. WHIRLS, AND
REACHES FOR HIS GUN,

EASILY CARRYING- HIS WHAT'S THIS?

ATTACKER, 5PACEHRWK 1 DA&GOR ISN'T
FOLLOWS OAGGOR'S DOING THE
TRAIL UP THE MOUNTAIN. [
CARRYING-.' IT'S
THE OTHER LUflY
AROUND.' UJHY-
THAT WAN MUST
BE ANOTHER
S-AMSON
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ALL THE WAY TO THE TOP, ANO THE
&mtM^ ZC P.A1SE YOUR HANDS/
TRAIL ENDS AT A DOOR IN THE QUICK, OR I'LL
SOLID ROCK/ VERY INTERESTING.' PERFORATE THEM WITH
THIS NEEDLE &UN.' rt
I Att NOT ft HERWIT.
I AAA DR. GORE.'
AND YOU - YOU ARE
THE MYSTERIOUS
PERSON KNOWN RS
<bPflCEHflLUK, ARE
YOU NOT?
 IF I CAN'T
PULL IT OUT OF
THIS DIVE, ,

I'LL CRASH/

BACK AT DR. GORE'S LABORATORY, SPACE-

HAWK BEGINS TO REVIVE AS HIS STRONG-
BODY THROWS OFF THE DRUG'S EFFECT....
UlHERE'sV r stop TALK.' YOU TALK M
YOUR ^i \ fAORE I BREAK HEAD/ /I

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THAT UJAS CLOSE/ A FEW AT SPACEHAWK'S B' YOU INHUMAN MONSTERS/
^
SECONDS WORE, AND THE
SHIP WOULD HAUE CRASHED/
J CONTINUED
CONTINUED COMMANDS,
COMMANDS,
THE ROBOTS LAND
THE SHIP NEAR. THE
LABORATORY — THEM
SPACEHAUJK MUST BE
CONTROLLING YOU BY
TELEPATHIC MESSAGES.'
WELL —I, TOO, HAVE" fl
TURN ON DR. GORE. STRONG WiMP' I COMMAND
VOU TO STAND BACK.

INCAPABLE OF FUNCTIONING UNDER TWO AS DR. GORE LEAPS MIGHTY POOR

SEPARATE MENTAL COMMANDS, THE OUT OF THE SHIP, HE FLYING, DR.GORS'
ROBOTS DROP IN THEIR TRACK'S RECEIVES A SURPRISE — EVEN FOR A
BEGINNER? NOW
I'M &OING TO GIVE
YOU SOME POINTERS.'

DR. GORE WHIPS OUT A NEEDLE GUN. YOU'D BETTER RUN/ IF I GET HAY
SPACEHALUK LUNGES, AND SENDS IT SPINNING, HANDS ON YOL>, I'LL CRUSH YOU
BUT NOT BEFORE SOME OF THE NEEDLES TO fl PULP
.'

ZIP THRU HIS LEGS.

 SMALL MATTER
THOUGH / r HAVE"
I THE SECRET OF HIS
] HHTl-GRAUin POWER!
I THAtS THE IMPORTANT
I THW&.'I'LL MAKE
QUICK USE OF IT TO
WflKE MVSELF
MASTER OF THE
mates.

SPACE HflUJK ZOON\S UP,

THEN DIMES BACK TOWARD
DR. GORE'S MOUNTAIN
LABORATORY. AS THE SHIP'S
ROCKET BARBELS SUJIN6
DOWN PACT THE CRA&,
•&PACEHAUJK GUNS THE
ROCKETS, AMD
 illERR NtTWITLER, DICTATOR, « ENRA6ED
BY THE ACTION CANADA HAS TAKEN AGAINST
HIS BLOODY WAR MACHINE

I KEEP SENDING SUBMARINES AND BOWBER.S

AFTER THEIR TROOP TRANSPORTS, BUT
THEV STILL MANAGE TO GET OVER. HERE/
I'LL STOP THEM .THOUGH I I'VE SAUED AN
ACE IN THE HOLE FOR JUST SUCH A SITUATION, J
AND NOUJ I'M GOING TO PLAY IT/
&END FOR CAPTAIN KOHLER/
^HIS FU6HT UJ1U. PROVE TWBT
IDE ARE MASTERS EVEN OF THE
STRATOSPHERE/ MO OWE CAN
SEE US/ NO ONE CAM STOP US.'
WHAT A SURPRISE THOSE
CONCEITED CANADIANS WILL GET
utfHEK OUR NELU super- BLAST
eOUkBS STRIKE EARTH.' YES-
THIS IS MV BIS DflV/ I'LL 3E
A NATIONAL HERO WHEN I
RETURN,
SHIPS TRAVELING
FIFTEEN MILES ABCriE
THE EARTH.' FOR
EARTHLINK, THAT'S
MIGHTY HIGH PLVING.'
I'LL SOON FIND OUT
UlHRT THIS IS ABOUT.
A filfiHT FLAME- I LEAVING THE OTHER SHIPS TO
THROUJER.' UJE'lL THEIR DOOM, KOHLEA
ALL BE BLASTED RELEASES HtS BQttBS AND FLEES...
TO ATOMS.' I'LL
HAVE TO GET OUT
OP HERE -QUICK.'

KOHLER'S HEAD =>TART GETS HIMV OUT OF THE FRYING ,

OVER HOWE TERRITORY, BUT IN HIS PAH AND INTO THE

AMXIETY TO LAND IN THE FIRST OPEN FIRE.' NOUJ I MUST
SPOT- HE SEES, HE PILES HIS SHIP UP. ... FACE HERP. NITlOlTLER.'
I'D BETTER MAKE IT fl
GOOD STORY, OR I'LL ,
WISH I HAD STAYED
IN THE SKY/
ALTHOUGH SPACEUAWK
KEEPS Att EYE ON KOHLER
BY MEANS OF HIS ELECTRO-
SCOPE, HE CANNOT REACH
THE OFFICER IN TIME TO
PREVENT HIS ESCAPE...
BUT AS SPACEHAUJK MEANWHILE, HE Aft NITIMITlER
ROARS IN OVER ENEMY RECEIVES UJORD, OF
TERRITORY- HIS EflGLE" KOHLER'S RETURN
LIKE SIGHT IS ATTRACTED
TO THE PROTRUDING [ SEND HIM IN.' T EXPECT )
MUZZLES OF THE RAIDERS
,
^GOOD NEWS.' j-**^
LAUNCHING **UBES...

FAILURES/ FAILURES' I'M

SICK OF HEARING OF
"YOU, SlA, THAT UJE FAILURES/ PREPARE THE
FAILED.' THERE WASN'T OTHER SIX SHIPS AND TRY
ENOUGH PRESSURE IN IT AGAIN.' FORCE MORE
THE GAS CHAMBERS TO GAS INTO THE CHAMBERS'
KEEP US ALOFT/ THE ROUND UP FIVE MORE PILOTS
OTHER SHIPS FELL INTO AND TAKE OFF JUST AS
THE SEfl.' I MADE IT SOOtl AS YOU CAN.' AND '

I BACK, BUT I DOH'T FAIL THIS TIME

 I UJfiS NEARLY IN
THEIR PATH, BUT
ST THAT SPEED
tHFT PROBABLE
DIDN'T NOTICE JSftE/

)tt HOWLER'S SHIP.. BUT SUDDENLY A LDNG CHAPE SPACEHRUJK FLIE9 TOO
U)E
f
RE NEARLY
ACROSS THE SEA,
AND THERE'S NO
SIGN OP TROUBLE
_>
KNIFES IN AMON& THE CfWFT ,
BRINGING SLUIPT DESTRUCTION/
NERR TO ONE OF THE
S«1PS, AND IT EXPLODES
DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF IT"

YET.' I BELIEVE
i WE'LL MAKE
THERE GOES MY BLAST
CANNON'S MUZZLE/ —
AND
I'M SHOT 80WM ONLY FlIE
OF THEM ! I'LL HBVE TO (SET
THE SIHTH SOIAE OTHER UWY.'
 STRIKES AMERICA,
FROM THE SKIES/
IN THE NEXT
SPACEHflUJK ADVENTURE IN
OUT OF THE^
SKIES,
COME:

IgT IS NOON IN
\ SAN FRANCISCO.
j SUDDENLY THE
f
SKY IS FILLED
[ WITH THOUSANDS
[OF LEAFLETS
APP6HRIN&
. MYSTERIOUSLY ,
[OUT OF THE BLUE!

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SHAPE RORRS
DOIUN IUITH THE
SPEED OF fl 1/IETEOB
HND PLUNGES MTOTHE
ClU KNIFING THRU
BUILDINGS HNDTOPWJNG/!
THEM INTO THE
STREETS/
 PANIC-STRICKEN PEOPLE
FLEE FROM THE WRECKED
k. ZOME, BUT ONE OUTSTRNDIW&
I FIGURE, UJMO HAS JUST

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CLASHES
THOU4MT- ,
COMMAND/'
TO THI PILOT
Of HIS SHIP...

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STOP HIM BEFORE
HE BREAKS INTO THE
OTHER COMPARTMENTS.
 IpLOLY LANDS AMD REMOVES WHAT'S THE IDEA?
THE PAZED AND INJURED CREW SOME ONE SHOVED THE ,

CREW OUT THEY SEEM TO J

'

BE HURT.'
\ '"*&:/ ALL OUT.' THIS IS J
•1 THE END OF THE /f

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HA/ THE PIG-HEADED MEM HO CLOSED OJR
ill

CAMP DID US A FAVOR/ OUT HERE DM THIS

VAST RANCH IUE ARE BETTER EQUIPPED
FOR OUR WORK.' OUR ORGAN 11 flTION 15
THtRE 15 a SOFT HISS. OWEN HE REAVES F ROW THE EFFECTS
SOMETHING SPATTERS OF THE KNOCK-OUT GAS. HE FINDS
IN SPACtHALUK'S HIMSELF CHAINEDTO THE GROUND...
PACE. AND HE
SLUMPS FORWARD...

THAT LINE ATTACHED VOGEL AND HIS MEM RETURN TO

TO YOUR WRIST RUNS THE RANCH HOUSE..
TO DYNAMITE
SWITCH' IF YOU MOVE
YOUR ARM SO MUCH
OS AN INCH THAT
BOULDER WILL BE BLASTED
OYER AND YOU'LL BE
CRUSHED TO Ft PULP.'

BUT SPACEHALUK IS HOT UNDER IT.' USING MENTAL

p ip-y
T£LEPHTHY, HE HAS CALLED DORK, HIS SPACE-FLYING
PARTNER, TO RE5GUE HlW. ...

TUJOUJ'LOOK WHERE 1O0 D \fe ^-JtHBNK6,T)ORK. AND"f

'

BE IF YOU'D <b£T OFF -S*' "~ n *"« ''"

THAT BLR&T BEFORE
1 GOT HERE'
 LIFTtD BY AhT|-6RfWY
POU1ER IN TWE;R DPPASEu.
THE TWO WEN UJHI^K UP
TO SPflCEHHWCS

it,- ml-' A
VO&EL AND MIS HENCHWEM
RUSH OUT OF DOOR'S,
TO MEET THE
Of) Li
STRANGE CRHFF
COMING BACK '
 FACING fl STORWl OF
LEAD, -iPACEHAUW HUftLS
I TEAR GA5 BOMB-.. ,
 ( COHIt A ST1P CLOSER, ) '/^ DONT BE MORI OF 1
Ota I'LL BLOUl BOTH A T-OOL THAN tOU f
\oe us_ro_ jqNeooM ) '1 ALAEM)** RAE.' r;

^f SWCEHAUIK'5 HBKD
SUPS To THE
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 TURNING FROM ROUTING tfOGEL'S
flE I
MEN, DOP.K fa STARTLED Bt
TrtE EXPLOSION...

JUMPING JUPITER'
IF 3PRCEHAUJK WAS
flWYUJHERE HEAR THAT, Ht"
 TO FOREVER BANISH
... EVIL OR. SORE FROM THE
EBRTH, SmCEHMUK'S FRIEND,
DORK. TAKES THE SCIENTIST jj
* f TO NlftRS.,.. £?

1 HLL RISHT GORE.' THIS IS THE END OF

1 THE LINE FOR YOU/ YOU DON'T NEED
3 TOBE RFRAID OF BEINS ALONE HERE,
1 BECAUSE THIS SECTION OF THE
PLANET IS CRAWLINS WITH OTHER
I

1 KINDS OF REPTILES AND INSECTS//

A MINUTE LATE R...
HOW!
YOU
HOLU
LIKE THE
DO
'NOT BAD
THE
PART
WORST
15
\
HAVING
FEEL OF THOSE TO SIT HEBE AND
SHACKLES? LOOK AT YOUR
hQO' -
GOOD WORK. SPACEHflUJK
"VOU LOWERED YOUR SHIP'S
GRflB-MrtGNET JUST IN
TIWlE TO YANK THAT
ENGINE OFF THE TRACKS
AT THAT WOMENT OJHflT A BREAK.' I'VE JUST AU RI6H1 , SPACE HAWK.' ]
THE SOUND OF A TRAIN TIME TO WAKE IT ACROSS FOLLOUJ we --if vou J
COWES FROM THE THAT TRESTLE BEFORE
OTHER SIDE OF THE TRAIN STARTS ACROSS
A DEEP CAN-ON... FROM THE OTHER SIDE.' AS
LONG AS THE TRAIN IS ON
1
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THE TRESTLE. SPACEHAWK r
CAN'T GET ACROSS TO ME, Jik
AND I'LL HAVE A CHANCE
TO ESCAPE.'
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HE'S fi BAT. BUT I l

CUNT STAND BY AUD/
SEE HIM KILLED.'

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 WITH
DR. GORE
OUT OF
THE WRY,
SPftCEHMK
GOES AFTER
OTHER
ENEMIES OF
RMERICfi
IN NEXT MONTH'S

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BfflHlNG
BULLET SHIRS'
 LOOK/-COMIN& TO
MEET US' 1 imW
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W( HfWE TO RUM FOR, 1
>\ \\T OR BE SHOT DOtDN/J

Us j^. :;:

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. ^ S i •
NVEflNtiWILE, SPACEHRUJK AND DORK LOOKS LIKE TlttO MEN k
SHOOT INTO THE '5KY, AND LUATCH oUSPENDED IN THE SKY/|
FROM H TJ15TANCE...
THE BATTLE CRN IT BE SOME KIND,

OF fl TRICK?
THEY Bfi&GED RLL BUT ONE
BOMBER, AMD TTS HERDIN&
BACK. THIS UJflY/
 SPURRED ON BV DESIRE FOR
REYENGE, THE SCIENTIST HEADS
FOR FREEDOM. "
IK
ItHE LIGHTNING HIT THAT THAT WASN'T NATURAL TJORK SWINGS THE SHIP UP
[SHIP.'
I SHIP. IT'S
1
GOING DOUJN.'

ANOTHER
LIGHTNING.' SEE -THAT
CLOUD 15 MOVING IN a OVER THE CLOUD, AND
5PACEHAWK LEAPS OUT-..
THERE'S
*HIP JUST OVER THE
HORIZON RADIO IT TO
~
!

CK UP THE SURVIVORS'
a ANOTHER DIRECTION NOU).
I'LL WAGER THERE'S SOfAE
SORT OF APPARATUS INSIDE
IT BUILT PURPOSELY TO
„

&1NK AMERICAN SHIPS/

I'M (SOING TO FIND OUT!
I

HE PLUNGES

IWS1DE THE FLOATING STRUCTURE SO IT'S YOU/ I THOUGHT

THE SINISTER TJR, GORE GLOATS '
I'D SEEN THE LAST OF
OVER HIE) LATEST TRIUMPH YOUR UGLY FACE, BUT
'
"IE I FIND YOU UP T"
.....' ANOTHER VICTIM! MY YOUR OLD TRIG""
LIGHTNING GUNS HAVE PROVED
SUCCESSFUL ON SHIPS! NOW TO
^ MOVE IN OVER THE CONTINENT
AND SHOCK AMERICA WITH A
MOST TERRIBLE SURPRISE .'
YOU STOLE MY SECRETS OF ANTI-GRAVITY THAT'S A LIE.' ALREADY I

AMD ROCKET POWER, DR. GORE. I'M NOT YOU'VE SENT SEVEN
GOlUG TO LET YOU CONTINUE USING THEM SHIPS TO THE BOTTcM
TO DESTROY LIFE AND PROPERTY/ THIS IS WITH THIS FLOATING
YOUR LAST VENTURE IN WHOLESALE WWRUER
'

POWER PLANT OF
YOURS.' DO YOU CALL ,

'YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND/ I'VE CHANGED.' THBT AN EKPERlMENT?J

RIGHT NOLO I'M CONDUCTING- RN j,

EXPERIMENT TO BENEFIT MANKIND.' f

NOW JUST SIT THERE AND
UJP.TCH WHILE I BLAST
EVERY CITY ON THE ATLANTIC
SEABOARD WITH MY
LIGHTNING BOLTS— THANKS
TO THE SCIENTIFIC KNOW-
LEDGE I'VE GLEANED
FROM YOU'
MUCH AS I LOVE YOUR
COMPANY, MY DEAR SPHCE-
HAUJK, I MUST LEAVE YOU
FOR A FEW MOMENTS UJHILE
I CHECK MY PROPULSIDN
ROCKETS.' I TRUST YOU J
U1LL PARDON ME.'
WITH DR, &ORE GONE,
SiPACEHAWK'S MIGHTY MIND
STRUGGLES TO REGAIN
CONTROL OF HIS SHOCKED
,
MUSCLES AND NERVES....
ItUdJ BH.' NO ItfTERFEREtfCE
VET/ ACCORDING TO
tM INSTRUMENTS, I
SHOULD BE ONLY ft FEUI
MILES FROM NEW ORLEflHS-
-THE FIRST CITT ON WiY
LIST/ fiLL THEY'LL SEE IS
fl HEAVY CLOUD OVERHEHD-

BND THEN I'LL UllPf "

 SPACEHALUK SIGNALS DORK, UJHO COMES OUT
OF THE SKY WITH THE SPACE-SHIP'S BLAST
CHHHOU BLRZiHS RT TJR, GORE...

El O,
THE SUIIFTKf
DEBDUEST THIHS
UUITH UllNSS.WUWl
THE TIWE HfiS COME TOR US TO &NE EVERY *\\ *
OUNCE OF OUR SUPPORT TO THE UNITED
STATES, DORK. 2'VE DECIDED TD GO TO
.'
*
WASHINGTON AND LEND W»Y SERVICES' YOU J
STAY WITH WY SHIP AND CARRY ON
FROM THE SKY.' m
RMAZiXG.' THAT'S PROOF GOOD.') I'D LIKE TO IF YOU CAN DO THAT,
ENOUGH FOB ME! 1'IA LUHRT SUPERINTEND TVS 9PACEHRLUK, YOU'LL WIN
HONORED TO MEET YOU, DO CONSTRUCTION OF THE EVERLASTING &RRTI-
5PRCEHAUJK.P.NDI UJANT YOU fl NEW AMD TUDE OFTMEUJHOLE
TO THANK VOU FOR ALL HAVE DIFFERENT TYPE THE FACILITIES
NATION,'
YOU'VE DOME POR THE IN OF DIVE BOMBER, OF OUR GOVERNMENT
U NITED STATES! RND FACTORIES ARE AT.

H THAT'S WHY I'M HERE

1 TO HELP THE NOTION
— WAm much faster and
5»«| DEADLIER THAN ANY'
"JOUR "DISPOSAL/ j—

BUILD MACHINERY THAT

WILL INCORPORATE SOMEl
HHSLTH,N& VET BUILT / j|
OF THE ADVANCED
SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE 1^J\
I CRN GIVE THE
\ GOVERNMENT.' ' \< ~^XL
vU>v
;/

^V /TV
MERHUJHILE, MOT FAR flUJRV-
IT'S TRUE.' TWO THAT 15 BATJ-
WORKMEN OVER BUT NOT TOO
RT THE PLANT BAD.' IF UJE CAW
ADMITTED THAT GET THE PLANS
SPACEHBWK 15 FOR THAT SHIR
ACTUALLY HELPING SPCICEHAWK LUILL
TO CONSTRUCT BE HELPING OUR
A NEW TYPE OF GOVERN ME NT, TOO!
DIVE BOMBER DID YOU PAY THE
10 WORKMEN FOR
INFORMATION? r

THEN THEY
.. CRW BE
I

BOU6HT LISTEN, MEN.' I'M PREPARED TO GIVE YOU FIVE

AGAIN/ CHECK THOUSAND DOLLARS TO 5PL1T BETWEEN YOU
UPON WEM.AND IF YOU CAN PRODUCE
IFTHINGS LOOK THE PLANS FOR
ALL RI&HT, TELL ePACEHALUK'S
THEM YOU'LL GIVE DIME BOMBER.
FIVE THOUSAND
"~
D0LLAS5"
THE PI
 I OWER THE FEHCE TOO 60-'
1 DOrVT LET THIS HAPPEN flSBN.I
RhM
BLgr-i
OH THERE'LL BE PLENTY 1
OF TROUBLE .'J

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A\\
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^ V Wtl ^g-
a=Si; .

iV-^^Sj <^^ *
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 ,
thi& is our chance to
1
get thrt ten thousand
dollrrs/ spacehawk is
testiug his new dive bowber
today, and we're tesnn& thi<=
new type tank amd its guns'
we'll moid him down ujhen he
comes out on the field. and
act as though it were an
rccident:

TBEBE HE tS.' PULL THE

TRIGGER, AND I'LL SUJ1M&
THE TRNK AROUND /

m^ —
CONTUSED, MRRTELL
HEADS THE MACHINE
TOWARD R CLIFF....

H
SPRCEHRWK LRNDS.

RfttAY OFFICERS. PRESEhIT TO VIEW TUB SPACEHAWK.YOUR $PACEHfl(UK

BOMBBK'S INiTIRL FU6HT &USHTOTHE BOWSER rt A MRRVEL.' WITH
SCENE THE HELP YOU'RE &NLHS 1>S, WE GOES INTO
CAN'T LOS£ THIS LUfiR 8Y THE
.'

iBY,— THOSE TWO TANK FICTION

TESTERS TALKED PLENTY.'
THEY IUERE HIRED BY F0REI6H IN
fl&ENTB TO GET YOU.' FEDERHL
POLICE HflME ALL OF THEIA NOUJ- SlflM BANS
THRNKS TO YOU;'
I'Nl SLflD
BATTLE
IN THE
PACIFIC
IN NEXT
MONTH'S
B LONE AMERICAN DESTROYER PLOUGHS
THRU THE PACIFIC, ITS CREW UNAWARE OF
THE DEADLY MENACE STEALTHILY SURROUNDING
IT. SUDDENLY THERE IS R ROAR OF SUNS ,

AS FOUR STRANGE CRRFT RISE TOTHE Kill!

'm/f
ON BOARD THE DESTROYER... INSIDE THE FLRGSHIP OF THE -RND UP IN 7WF
DEVIL DIVERS, KOSftKI. THE STRRJOSPHERE, I
COMMRUDER, HISSES OUT ORDERS.. SPRCEHRWK'S SHIP I
J THEY'RE DEVIL DIVERS. THE F 5ILENTLY HOVERS P
ENEMY'S NEUJ TYPE OF *\, TELL THEM TO CIRCLE ABOUT RBOVE THE SCENE-
UNDEB5EP DESTROYER.' ONLY I CRUTIOUSLY, AND NOT TO
fl MIRACLE CAN SAVE US FROM I EXPOSE THEMSELVES EXCEPT
FOUR OF THE*A, BUT WE'LL I WHEN THEY fiiSE TO FIRE.'
GIVETHEM EVERYTHING WE'VE ml WE'LL SOON BLAST EVERY
GOT OS LONG AS WE'RE AFLOAT, AMERICAN -DOG OUT OF THE 1

PACIFIC WITH THESE SWIFT

"DEEP-DIVING CRAFT OF OURS:
.SO ' THE DE/AOCRfiCY-
MINQED SKYDUJELLER
COMES TO DEFEND
OUR ENEMIES.' THE .
FOOL WILL RE&RET J\
«.UCHfl JAOVE-' —-rfli

SPRCEHRUIK.' LUHRT 1/ WITH YOUR

BRINGS YOU HERE
C—
PERMISSION, CPPTRlM.
I
1
RT R TIME LIKE /J I'D LIKE TO 5ET UP £
THIS? r— *\ TH15 MACHINE IN r^i
IflCTtON AGAINST—^f»
 THAT'S fl SECRET TWO OF OUR CRAFT ORDER NUNIBER TWO
1 PREFER TO GONE.' THRT PURPLE TO ATTACK THE"
KEEP-' OTHERWISE BEAM HOD SOME- AMERICAN PIGS. RT
IT UJOULD PROBABLY TO DO IU1TH
THING CLOSE RANGE.'
GET INTO EMEWY THIS.' IT COULD BE LUE'LL DROWN THEfA
HRNDS SOME SORT OF IN THEIR O0M BLOOD!
WEAPON 5PACEHALUK
HAS BROUGHT TO
THE ENEMY.' HOU)
PD LIKE TO CAPTURE
THRT SO-CALLED
SUPER

-
AS IT FlRSS, SPBCEHRIUK SLRPS
-£\1EN
THE RNTI-GRfWlTY BEffM OH IT, fftJD
SVRTCHES IT OUT OF THE SEP. !
SUFFERING SONS OF
THE RISING SUN '

THEY'VE BOARDED
THE CRAFT.' GO UP
AFTER THESlBIHE.'r

kOSPiKI SEES OJHRT IS

GOING ON BY LOOKING
THRU HIS PERISCOPE.

BUT THE DEVIL D/VER NEVER COMES

TO THE TOP ftSftm/ THE SPURTOF
(VRTER THRT GUSHES THRU THE THE WOUNDED CRPTR/N....
CONNING TOLUETi BRUSHES KOSRKI
OFF HIS' FEET.' BEFORE HE CRN GET EVERYTHING ft GOIW&) THANKS, '

BRCK TO THE CONTROLS, HE IS TO BE ALL RIGHT /SPflCEHfllOK!

OVERCOME BY THE FLOOD! CAPTAIN' I'LL REPAIR /UMTH NEWS SPRCEHRUIK
THE PROJECTOR RIGHT/LIKE THAT I

RlURY IT'LL PROTECT

.'
/ KWOU) THAT SPRINGS
/ OJE
US TILL IDE CAN GET WOUNDED
" WILL PULL SOME
THRU/
NEW
SURPRISES
WITH HIS
ANTI-GRRVITY
BEAM
PROJECTOR.'
 HflPPV TO KNOU) you.
LIEUTENANT.' I'lA OUT ON
OBSERVATION FOR TH£
GOVERNMENT.' I'M STOPPING
ST ALL THE ALASKAN
MM .'THAT'S SOME AND SPEED.' WHY- WE'RE
DOIH6 SEVEN HUNDRED
SUJEET BUS YOU i

HRVE MERE/ HOLU MILES AM HOUR.'

PRST WILL THOSE
ROCKET TUBES _
DRIVE it;
SPflCEHfUUK FREES flMW, MY WEN UHLL HEAR PHD ATTACK
BUD THEY BURST OUT. THStt, BUT THEY'LL BE OUTNUMBEfiED.',
UPON THE GUBRD. tm* SET THRU.r
JflPS U1ILL
 THERE'S THE RADIO PLEASE DO RS I

TRANSMITTER, RYAN,' SUGGEST, LIEUTENAKT.f

BETTER TELL YOUR MEN I'M GOING TD USE
NOT TO GO INTO THE MY ANTI-GRAVITY
AIR. THEY'RE TOO BEAM, AND THE SKY
OUTNUMBERED/ SHOULD BE CLEAR Of
EVERYTHING EXCEPT.
ENEMY SHIPS/

BRCK RT THE AMERIC8N MEANWHILE. SPRCEHRUK SWIFTLY OVERTAKES THE JRP

BASE, RVfltf'S MESSAGE BOMBERS. HIS RNTI-GRRVITY BERM DRRTS OUT LIKE H
ARRIVES JUST AS THE GIRNT RRM RND SNATCHES THE/A UP WITH R SUDDEN FORCE
SOUND DETECTOR PICKS THAT JERKS WINGS LOOSE RND TOSSES THE CREUJS INTO
UP THE DRONE OF SHIPS INSENSIBILITY/ jm
PASSING TO THE. WEST....

YOU SRY LIEUTENRNT RYRN\

ORDERED US NOT TO GO]
UP AFTER THEM?
« SPRCEHBWK
ZHVES IN
flMOWG THE
BOMBERS,
SWW
OPERATES
THS POWERFUL
MBCMNE GUN....
 TH EY'RE ZIS-ZRSSIMS SPflCEHRIDK FIXSS THE seam oh
THE OlSTRNT ICEBERG'S DM, BUD
_ ' YES, THEY'RE STILL MASSIVE HUNKS OP ICE BREAK.
HERE HE COMES Itoo far AWRY TO LOOSE HMD HURTLE UPUIRRB!
WE'RE LOST- I KEEP THE BERM ON
UNLESS PERHAPS I THEM. MAYBE HIE CRN
WE CRN LOSE HIWl \ STOP THEM SOME OTHER
IN THOSE CLOUDS I WRY.' SEE THRT ICEBERG
RHERD' V.DOLUH THERE RHERO
LOP THEM1

i THE SHIPS MISS SUCH OTHER Br

INCHES AS JRP BULLETS STORM S
PDST SPMWRIUCS PLUNC! 5
SPnCEHfUUK SIVM6S
SPICK BND COMES UP
m THE JflP PLRNE.
WHICH ZUODBULf NOSES
DOWN - flAfD THE TWO .

SHIPS LOCK TOGETHER!

 IT'S UNCANNY ON'T WE SPACEHAlUK?HNlfci ^
WE MUST DO SOMETHING TO J UNLESS UJE CAM STOP ICHLL IN , WHAT DOES HE KNOW*
HALT THIS HORRIBLE GREEN I THIS THING AT ONCE. [SPACEHAUIK? \
ABOUT RHRE DISEASES
PLRGUE ALREADY AN
! 1 EVERY PERSON IN
ALARMING NUMBER OF OUR 1
AMERICA WILL BE IN
GOVERNMENT LEADERS AND SYMPATHY WITH OUR
ARMY ANDNflVY HEADS ARE I ENEMIES.' THRT tHILL
VICTIMS/ EVERY ONE OF , I BE THE END OF THE
THEM HAS TURNED RGRINSTi UNITED STATES.'
THE ALLIED CAUSE.'
 [-1 FEEL fl LITTLE UJEBK '
WE HOPE YOU CRN HELP
US DISCOVER THE SOURCE" ALL OF fl SUDDEN.' BEEN
OF TH6 PUZZLING MRLfiDY WORKING OVERTIME TOO j
SPflCEHflUJK./ UlE MUST MUCH, I GUESS,'
SCwAEHOUJ HOLT ITS EFFECT OH
OUR PEOPLE OR THE
-
, AXIS UJtLL
DEFEflT US UJITHIH fl FEU) WEEKS

Ml
 / I HAVE .'
I CAN'T SEVERAL YEKRS AGO I IN THIS CASE. THE STIMULUS
/ SAY WHAT MAY CONDUCTED A SERIES OF IS THE WAVE OF PATRIOTIC
' CAUSE THE VICTIMS' PSYCHO LOGICAL TESTS. FERVOR NOU) ENVELOPING
KINS TO TURN GREEN, FOUND THAT THE 1 AMERlCR. IN AN EFFORT
I BUT BELIEVE THAT
I MIND, LIKE THE BODY, TO COUNTERBALANCE THE
SUDDEN PRO-AXIS
I OFTEN REACTS IN A EFFECTS OF THIS FLOOD
= OF MIND 15 BROUGHT VIOLENT REVERSE OF EMOTION, MANY
A RELATIVELY
t -^ MANNER TO CERTAIN ,
SENSITIVE MlNDS TIP THE
SIMPLE CONDITION. f\ STIMULI J OTHER WAY. THE UNHNPPY
1

RESULTIS THAT THE

ATTITUDE IS
VICTIMS'
INVOLUNTARILY REVERSED,
AND HATRED/;
FOR OUR

NOT SO FAST OH, COME NOW, SPACEHAUJK .'

DOCTOR.' I'M THAT'S A BIT TOO

AFRR1D DON'T I FBR- FETCHED.',
AGREE WITH YOU.' PERHAPS. BUT
THINK I'VE WITH THE AID OF
ALREADY DISCOVERED, , MY SUPER- SENSITIVE
AT LEAST IN PART, f
-SHORT WAVE RECEIVER,
WHAT CAUSES THE 1 I'VE PICKED UP THE SOUND
GREEN PLAGUE OF AN EXTREMELY HlGH
I FREQUENCY CARRIER UJ AVE.'

m]
NO SOUNDS ARE BEING
BROADCAST ON THAT UJAVE:
ISN'T IT POSSIBLE, THEN. THRT
THOUGHT SUGGESTIONS ARE
BEING SENT OUT OVER IT
INSTEAD' PEOPLE WHOSE
I

I
NEVERTHELESS. I'M GOING
TO TRACK DOUJN THE
SOURCE OF THAT CARRIER
WAVE — RIGHT NOW.' WOULD
YOU CARE TO ACCOMPANY ME
WINDS ARE NATURALLY ATTUNEO
TO THAT CERTAIN FREQUENCY
COULD BE RECEPTIVE TO
TELEPATHIC MESSAGES.
SPRCEHRCUK'S KEEN DR. KRRUS/ARNN OJtilPS OUT R SUN WITH SURPRISING
ERRS CRTCH THE SPEED DR. KRQUSMRNH
SOUND OF Tti£ YOU FINALLY I COULD SEE THRU LEAPS BACK THRU THE
jxxrron's Voice..... CAUGHT ON, YOU FROM THE FIRST DOOR TO THE CONTROL
EH? LUELL, IT'S YOU RAT/ YOUR. CR8IN, RND SLfiMS IT
Z/ considerate of you TOO LATE EFFORTS TO SIDE- IN SPRCEHflWK'S FRCE
[TO SEND fl MESSAGE TO NOUj; THEY TRACK ME WITH
YOUR FRIENDS TO ANNOUNCE) KMOU) YOU'RE YOUR SILLY THEORY
COWING., AND UJERE TOO OBVIOUS.'
THEY'LL BE DROP THAT (SUN BEFORE
HEADY FOR I SMACK YOU.
YOU.'
 HE BALLED OUT.' I KRRUSMRliN LRMDt
KRRL
I SHOULDN'T HAVE GIWEN _ »LWS TO THE
PI THAT ANTI-iSRAVITY | ROCK TOUJER.~
"
' WELL, HE CflNT
I
FAR IN THIS DESERT,',

| DR. K RRU SMRNN FIRES RS SPGCEMRtiiK CQM&

1 jWTO vmt — BUT HE /S TOO SLOW ON THE
J,
I KNOW YOU'RE IN THERE, KRRUSMANM." I TRIGG at! SPRCEHRIVK DOD6ES, RND HIS
I'W COWING IN AFTER YOU.' BETTER ff \ FLRM £ 6L N SPITS SUDDEN DERTH
lYOUft HANDS INTHE AIR.']
YOU ASKED FOR IT/

lJ?
iMms %^mL/v
Eqsrr
^\

ill ^m*W
A PflSSRGEWRY UP THRU THE ROCK..'
IT MUST LEAD TO THE" PLfKE" UJH5RE
THAT MBCHIME GUN "
'
 SPflCEHfWK
HEARS THE
STEEL DOORS
OPENING.
RND WHIRLS
TO SEE HIS
OLD ENEMY—

SURPRISED, EH, SPflCEHAUlK? THOUGHT THAT TUMBLE WW NAZI AGENTS, INCLUDING DR.KRAUSMANN,
INTO THE CANYON KILLED ME, DIDN'T YDU? A NATIVE HAVE BEEN WATCHING lOU,-JUST IN CASE
CARRIED ME OUT, AND IN SPITE OF MY BROKEN YOU STARTED SNOOPING / MY BROADCASTING
BONES, LWEDZ THIS NECK BRACE PUTS ME ATA
I PRO-NAZI THOUGHT SUGGESTIONS INTO
PHYSICAL DISADVANTAGE, BUT SOU r\ AMERICAN MINDS IS RATHER STUPENDOUS,
UJONT TOUCH ME -UNLESS YOU l-" DON'T YOU THINK,? OCCASIONALLY
I

WANT A DEADLY DOSE FROM ' ALTER THE WAVE LENGTH TO MATCH THE
THIS ACID GUN.' VARIOUS TYPES OF HUMAN RECEIVERS.'
SOON ALL AMERICA LULU HE CONTROLLED
BY MY POWERFUL, TRANSMITTED THOUGHTS,
AND MY COUNTRY .

WILL (DIN A ,

QUICK AND

AS FOR THE GREEN THE ACID INSIDE

THE ULTRA-
ftKINS, THIS GUN IS THE
SHORT WAVE5 CAUSE KIND THAT INSTANTLY
B CHEM1CRL REACTION I AND NOOI I'M GOING TO SETTLE UJrTH YOU BURNS TO THE 8DNE.'
WHICH ALTERS THE THAT IS THE ENTRANCE TO A DUNGEON I'LL GIVE YOU FIVE .
COLOR PIGMENT/ INSIDE THIS ROCK.'YOU WILL ENTEfl AND SECONDS TO GO"
UNDERSTAND IT'S ©TflV THERE UNTIL YOU DIE.' SET IN YHERE: THRU THAT I
VERY EFFECTIVE/
SPRCtHfUUK STEPS TOWRRD THE DUNGEON.

(lN THAT SHOULD HOLD UJHfN GET THRU UJ1TH THIS

I ,

;p^
YOU UNTIL THE , TRANSMITTER, DDM'T j
1

\ F.B.I. SETS HERE.'J BELIEVE IT'LL WORK ,

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1' sP^r^^^rs
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VERY OJELL.'

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ACCORDING TO REPORTS FROM RLL

SECTIONS OF AMERICA, THE GREEN
PLffSUE HAS SUDOENlY DISAPPEARED.
RLL VICTIMS NRVS MMCULQUSLY RECOVERED.
 IT'S fiMRUHS. B BUT IT'S MPRflCTlCRL' SORRY, SPBCEHAIUK,
5UCH AN [UNLESS PROTECTED, 1- UJ1TH S§ BUT 1% RFRRID UJE
INSTRUMENT OUR OWN MEN 1 MAJOR1

g CRN'T use them.' IT

OF MIGHT BE KILLED RRTCHFORD.' §
| WOULD BE TOO COSTLY
DESTRUCTION 1 BV THE THOUSANDS.'^ TOD MUCH I TO MANUFACTURE
COULD 10IH 1

HDD IT UJOULD REQUIRE kRISK AMD B ARMOR FOR THOUSANDS

THE WAR ^ MONTHS -EVEN YERftS • EXPENSE 1 |

UJlTHlN R 1 TO EQUIP OUR TROOP* WOULD BE 1

J

FEW -j\ wrm souhd-proof r— QNVOLSEpy

WEEKS .'J 1 ARMOR. f-]r--'
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BUT THAT WOULDN'T
BE NECESSARY
SMALL UNITS COULD
PLANT THE SIREN
WELL (UITHIKI ENEMY
• TERRITORY, AND
GREAT SCOTT) IF ANY SPRCEHROJKZOOMS ABOVE 77/f CLOUDS, BUT NO
rtORE OF THOSE THINK PARATROOPS OR EN£M TRANSPORTS flR£ VISIBLE.'
LflND, uje'll HflUE fl THB ONLY SHIPS IN TVS SKY ARE U.S.
WHOLE JAP ARWY ON PURSUITS RND INTERCEPTORS MUM7IN6 FOR THFFOS!
DUR HANDS. j
1

^ y j
'

THE REAL BATTLE IS

PROBABLY GOIN& ON ,

ABOVE THE CLOUDS.'

THIRTY THOUSAND —THAT SHOULD
BE A SAFE ALTITUDE AND'

NOW, MAJOR.- IF YOU'LL THKE

THE CONTROLS AND HOLD THIS
THING IN THE SKY, I'LL CRALUL
INTO MY SOUND-PROOF ARMOR
AND ATTEMPT TO PLAHT THE
SIREN ON THAT
DIRIGIBLE 'jsrtf YOU MEAN YOU

TO MOCK HM INTO THS SKI! M

HE BRERKS HIS FRLL BY MERNS OF HIS RNTI-GRfWITY BEIT, RND
LRNDS ON THE DIRIGIBLE IMMEDIRTELY 8 JRP PILOT TRIES
<

JL.
^Jl/Ofa> ~
IT'S SPHCEHAUIK, CHPTBIhTJv HE'S COMING THIS WHY AND flLREflor smamMK
HE'S CARRYING SO/MTHING.' WAS TtfANED OK THE
SO? HAND ME fi MACHINE IT MAY BE A BOMB.' 3/ftEN, WD /TS -

GUN / i UJANT THE PLEASURE -.- _-!_—-^OPEN A WHINE SUDDENLY

OF PUNCTURING HIS y "' "^ WIUDOIU, SO | RISES TO A
DEMOCRATIC HIDE PIERCIH6 SHRIEK!
MNY OF THE JRP PILOTS
PRE KNOCKED OUT BY THE
BR8IN-JRRP.IN6 VtBRPTIONS,
RND LOSE CONTROL OF
THEIR SHIPS!

BUT THE JRPS DO NOT KNOW THRT

THE VIBRRTIONS—THOUGH NOT
THE SIREN
TUMBLES' DOWN
FIRE!| there must be
> h trritor
9
DETECTABLE Bf HUMRN ERRS- INSIDE THE
'
aboard; h
SISNAL THE FIRE h
RUE GROWING DEPDLIER! DIRIGIBLE. l

AS IT CONTINUES '--y-^SQUflDf^
SPINNING,
WOODEN PRRTS
OF THE STRUCTURE,
HEP.TED BV THE
INTENSE WRRTION,
BEGIN TO IGNITE'
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1 UJRS WRONG,
SPflCEHfllUK,
1

'
^ THAMKS,
SOdAE
Sift'
OP THAT B-
W
UP TO WHEN 1 REJECTED GANS ESCAPED, TL,
MOM TOUR SIREN ! 1 BUT THEY LUOH'T W
.MAJOR YOU PROVED ITS S
J
GET PAST OUR I
WORTH BY v \a.^N.j SPRCEHRWK
UJIU NIN& A
BATTLE
1

DOES TO »
'EM
SINGLE-HANDED.' *
r*j VFJTT MONTH'S
GONSROTULATIOHS.
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 MififfWf flR®

ON THE DflflKFNFD 5rRE£TS 1T IS THE MI&HTf

OF A WESTERN CITY fl SPRCEHRWK WHO HfIS
TIRE TtfffF (S flr U/OPK, SURPRISED THE CRfM/NRL!
tlHMH-
COME BACK HERE. OR I'LL
LET YOU HAVE IT - AMD
I DOtJ'T MEHM THfVT TIRE
JUST RT THRT NiCHStfT fl YOUNG
UJOMRU DRIVES UP AND
G£T£ OUT OF THE CAP

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 flr THE STRTION
ICAU6HT HER JACKIN& '

UP A CAR, SERGEANT
SHE CLAIMS SHE'S
DiANfi DREAN, BUT TO
CAN SEE FOR YOURSELF
THERE'S NO RESEMBLANCE".'

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I'LL GET SOME 1 WON'T TALK (put HER iK, YOU'RE NOT REALLY IN JAIL— YET,'
BAD PUBLICITY IF TILL 1 SEE 7fl DETENTION THIS IS MERELYONE Of THE
I PROVE I'M MY LAWYER.' F
\JlOONi J—
.'
DETENTION ROOMS WHERE
OlflNfl DREflN.' SUSPECTS AR£ TEMPORARILY

m&
I'D BETTER NOT, KEPT
SAY ANYTHING' 1 WONDERFUL ! 1 SUPPOSE
"1 VERTICAL THINGS ARE
i CANDY BURS IN CASE
I GET HUN6RY!

£M
WHERE DO YOU ] BACK ™
THINK. YOU'RE V TO YOUR
TAKING WVE_?,/1\ CAR '.^-*

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SPRCIHPOJK DIVES TO THE GROUND...
 SOME ONE TOOK THE J PROBABLY THE
WHEEL YOU STARTED A POLICE TOOK IT
TO PUT BACK ON! rfPOfi SflFE-KEEPIN6.'
finis is
1 GETTING
V(
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|

T" I'LL PUT ON THE

SPARE, AND UlE'LLGO
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NO, BUT I
DON'T MIND
M
CARRYING YOU
'
AROUND.'

55f
SPACEft/WK'S POWERFUL GUNS SPIT STBEL BUT" RS THE SUB GOES DOW. SPftCEHRUiK
INTO THE SUB'S VIT/iLS '.
SEES THATOHE OF HIS ROCKET BARRELS
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