Astounding Stories #29

In "The Human Top!", a mysterious criminal known only as the Human Top terrorizes the city with his spinning, acrobatic attacks, leaving police baffled. When the Wasp urges Giant-Man to take the fight, Henry Pym must push his size and strength to the limit—learning to move faster, smarter, and more precisely than ever before to stop a foe who defies conventional tactics.

In "The Man With No Face!", a wealthy man finds himself unsettled by the sudden arrival of a humble junk dealer and his wagon just next door. As the days pass, the quiet presence of the neighbor begins to unsettle him more than he expects—until a startling revelation forces him to confront a version of himself from a time before fortune stripped him of empathy.

In "Only I Know When the World Will End!", a man claiming to be an alien from another world warns that a planet is hurtling toward Earth—only to be dismissed as mad. After escaping custody, he retreats into a cave, convinced his own mind has betrayed him. Meanwhile, astronomers track a mysterious celestial event, unaware that the man’s desperate warning was terrifyingly true.

In "A Phantom in the Sky!", a Nazi pilot chasing a mysterious dirigible through a strange dimensional rift finds himself in a world beyond his own—only to return to war-torn Germany decades older than when he left, the cost of his impossible journey etched into his face and time itself.

Arnie and his friends put on a flashy act, pretending to be Martian investors to trick Vincent out of his money—only to find the real Martians have arrived, and their offer is far more literal than they expected. When the extraterrestrials take Vincent’s cash, they casually destroy the cheque, leaving the boys with nothing but their own bad luck.

Kid Montana rides into Tacas and immediately tangles with three of the deadliest gunfighters in the West—Riff Webster, Spade Nolls, and Al Arlen—who've carved out a reign of terror in the town. When the Kid makes it clear he won't back down, the trio and their hired guns must reckon with a stranger who might just be faster than all of them combined. This is a showdown where one man's nerve could turn the tide for an entire town.

Fighter pilot Steve Krensic is shot down over enemy-held Yugoslavia during World War II and must survive behind enemy lines with a twisted ankle and no allies in sight. When a brave local girl discovers him hiding and injured, she risks everything to guide him toward the underground resistance fighters who might smuggle him back to safety. What begins as a desperate escape becomes something far more personal when Krensic realizes the connection between his rescuer and his own family's past.