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Quote1 How could he know of anti-acceleration-- When his people never conquered outer space? He couldn't know that, just by stoping, we flashed past him at millions of miles per second while it would have taken him three hours to decelerate! Quote2
Commander Morton

Appearing in "Black Destroyer!"

Featured Characters:

  • Black Destroyer (Coeurl) (First appearance; dies)

Antagonists:

  • Space Crew
    • Smith (Biologist)
    • Commander Morton
    • Kent (Chemist)
    • Dr. Korita (Historian)
    • Jarvey (First appearance; dies)
    • Sam (First appearance; dies)
    • Siedle (First appearance; dies)
    • Breckenridge (First appearance; dies)
    • Numerous unnamed crewmembers

Other Characters:

  • Unidentified Alien Astronauts (Only in flashback)
  • Lord (Invoked)
  • Cowardly Lion (Mentioned)

Races and Species:

Locations:

  • Earth-Unknown (Main story and flashback)
    • Earthspace (Main story and flashback)
      • Unidentified Solar System (Main story and flashback)
        • Unidentified Planet (Main story and flashback)
      • Earth (Mentioned)
    • Heaven (Invoked)

Synopsis for "Black Destroyer!"

On a ruined planet an alien creature named Coeurl stalks a group of astronauts from Earth. He pretends to be a docile simple beast to earn their trust and allowing passage in their ship. Once in the ship he begins picking them off one-bye-one until his plans are discovered. Once discovered he successfully builds a rocket to travel to his sun only to be deadlocked due to anti-acceleration and be corned back onto the astronauts' ship. Coeurl not wanting to taste the pain of atomic weapons chooses suicide over atomic death.

Appearing in "They Wait in the Shadows!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Journey Into Unknown Worlds #47

Featured Characters:

  • Colonists from Earth
    • Henry Bond
    • Martin
    • Martha
    • Mark
    • Numerous unnamed colonists

Supporting Characters:

  • Numerous unnamed Aliens

Races and Species:

  • Humans (Main story and flashback)
  • Unidentified alien species

Locations:

Items:

  • Artifical Christmas Tree

Synopsis for "They Wait in the Shadows!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Journey Into Unknown Worlds #47

A similar tale to that of the Ditko story presented in Journey Into Mystery #78.

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