Forbidden Worlds #93

Otto Gruber, a notorious Nazi war criminal hunted across the globe for decades, infiltrates the laboratory of Professor Throm by posing as a skilled researcher—only to find himself cornered by intelligence agents closing in on his hideout. Desperate and trapped, Gruber seizes on the professor's experimental pigment extract, a formula that grants animals the power to change their skin color for camouflage, and uses it to escape imprisonment. But as the authorities track him down with methods no clever disguise can evade, Gruber's new "gift" may prove more curse than salvation.

Seymour Drudd, a mechanical genius tired of inventing kitchen gadgets, stakes everything on building an unmanned spaceship to Venus—a vessel the Space Administration ridicules as nothing more than an oversized eggbeater. When his audacious rocket returns with samples of alien life from the clouded planet, the authorities refuse to believe him, and Drudd makes a fateful decision about what to do with his hard-won proof. This 1961 tale by Pierre Alonzo and Pete Costanza explores what happens when ambition meets dismissal, and when proof of the impossible arrives with a nightmarish price.

Arthur Connors, a brilliant chemist obsessed with the theory that nutrition shapes human potential, puts his radical dietary experiments into practice on his own son Jim—with extraordinary and increasingly troubling results. As Jim grows into a superhuman prodigy with incredible athletic abilities, telepathy, and precognition, he becomes a lonely outcast desperate to be ordinary, rejected even by Stella Fraser, the one person he hoped might understand him. Facing isolation and abilities he never wanted, Jim takes matters into his own hands to undo his father's genetic legacy.

Antique dealer Adolph Greebel guards a peculiar secret in his shop—a mirror that opens windows into the past, allowing him to retrieve historical treasures. When his lazy nephew Hans discovers the truth and seizes control, his greed drives him to shift the mirror's position and peer into dimensions far more sinister than ancient history, unleashing something that should have remained hidden.