Forbidden Worlds #96

In "The Legend of the Good Witch!" from Forbidden Worlds #96 (1961), a young woman born of a witch executed in Salem carries a burden of legacy—her mother’s dark name and deeds. Determined to forge her own path, she seeks to heal and protect, even as the past shadows her every step.

Clouds have long been read as omens of the future, and this story traces a series of eerie cloud formations that preceded momentous events—from a ominous shape above a Montana frontier village in 1873, to a broken crown glimpsed by French peasants centuries earlier, to a flame-like cloud that hung over old Chicago. Whether these cloud portents truly herald disaster or merely fuel our appetite for pattern and prophecy remains delightfully uncertain.

Scientist Lance Sabin vanishes into an Antarctic crevasse during the International Geophysical Year—only to discover a hidden tunnel leading to an impossible golden city thriving beneath the polar ice, populated by descendants of a superior human race who fled mankind's greed and violence millennia ago. When the city's Council of Elders captures him, the compassionate Verna vouches for him, and as she reveals her civilization's extraordinary secrets, Lance must grapple with a fateful choice that will reshape everything he thought he knew.

In "Welcome to Xenon!" from Forbidden Worlds #96 (1961), a crew of space travelers lands on the colossal planet Xenon, only to find themselves outnumbered and outmatched by towering, humanoid monstrosities who see them not as guests, but as unwelcome intruders. The story unfolds as the explorers struggle to survive in a world where their very presence is an offense.