Creepy Worlds #138
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free# Creepy Worlds #138 Captain Atom battles Dr. Spectro, the diabolical Master of Moods, after enemy agents spot incoming imps on radar heading toward a science center. Captain Atom must retrieve a safe containing rare elements before Dr. Spectro's five-faced operatives can use them to power a machine designed to merge their consciousnesses with his own and give him control over all emotions. When Captain Atom's weapon accidentally damages the machine during the confrontation, the resulting sabotage prevents Dr. Spectro from achieving his plan of world domination.
Captain Atom races to stop a mysterious gang of tiny, colorfully clad figures resembling Doctor Spectro, who are stealing military equipment and vanishing into the sky. As he investigates, he discovers the bizarre truth: the villain’s essence has fractured into five separate, warring forms, each wielding a different aspect of his power, and they’re building a hidden space station to reunite and reclaim their full strength.
In "The Nightmare Men," a tyrant haunted by nightly visions of masked figures bearing the word "justice" on their armbands finds his sleep shattered by their relentless approach. Though he always wakes before they can seize him, the dread lingers—until one morning, the guards discover he’s vanished, leaving them to wonder if the dream was real, and if justice finally caught up.
In "The Man Who Said 'No'," a man’s stubborn refusal to fund a scientist’s experimental work takes a terrifying turn when a lab accident leaves him shrunk to microscopic size—trapped in a world where every surface is a mountain and every danger is absolute. The story unfolds with chilling precision, exploring the consequences of a single, defiant choice.
In "Paid in Full!", a kind-hearted truck driver forms an unexpected bond with a lonely clerk who has no one. After the man’s sudden death, his ghost returns to warn the driver away from a bridge—just as a flash flood threatens to sweep it away.
A private pilot’s 1947 report of a flying saucer sparks a wave of sightings across the U.S., including a dramatic encounter at Fort Knox where an Air Force captain witnesses a glowing object destroy a fighter jet before vanishing. Years later, the silence around UFO reports raises unsettling questions—were the saucers real, did they leave, or are they still among us, hidden in plain sight?
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