Mystic #3
In "The Jaws of Creeping Death," the first man to reach the moon stumbles upon a civilization that can't build spaceships but has mastered a mind-weakening gas meant to enslave Earth's population into constructing vessels for their migration. With his breath held and nerves taut, he sabotages the craft's controls, trapping it in endless orbit. Frank Sieminski handles both art and inks for the interior, while Sol Brodsky and Chris Rule deliver the eerie, otherworldly cover. A 10-cent comic from 1951, this issue blends early sci-fi dread with a tense, solitary act of defiance.
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The first man to land on the moon encounters creatures that lack the ability to build space ships but have perfected a will-sapping gas that they wish to administer into Earth's atmosphere in order to enslave the population into building enough space ships to transport their people to Earth. The man holds his breath so that he doesn't get a full dose of the gas and seizes his chance to wreck the controls so that the craft will orbit the planet ceaselessly.
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