Secrets of the Unknown #S [B]

In "They Pass By Night!", a tense moment unfolds as a car and a bus seem poised for a collision under the cover of night—only to reveal, in a striking final panel, that the bus is actually traversing the surface of Mercury, rendering the near-miss entirely illusory. The story plays with perception and scale, turning a moment of suspense into a quiet revelation of cosmic distance.

In "The Black Beard!", Mac’s desperate flight from the law takes a surreal turn when he steals a test plane and inexplicably returns to the same airport he just fled. At a diner, he confronts Lois only to be arrested—just as he realizes the bearded man he saw was his own future self, caught in a loop he can’t escape.

In "The Totem!", Clark and his men stumble upon an Inuit man guarding a golden totem pole, only to find themselves shrinking overnight after taking it. As they return again and again, each journey ends with another loss—until Clark is left alone, transformed into a face carved into the pole itself.

When sorcerers confront Ronnie with the truth about his family’s divining rod—revealing it’s a long-lost magic wand they’ve been seeking—his decision to burn it sets off a chain of consequences he never saw coming. The moment feels quiet, but the air crackles with unseen forces.

In the quiet hush of a forgotten town, an old man’s terrified cry echoes—only to vanish beneath the earth before anyone can see what he saw. When famed scientist Ivan Von Gent takes up the mystery, he uncovers a way to see the unseen, and what he finds leaves him as shaken as the man who first cried out. Now, with the burden of sight transferred, the old man can finally rest—because Ivan Von Gent has become the One who watches.

In "When the Yogi Speaks!" from Secrets of the Unknown #S, Mitch and his gang enlist the help of the mysterious Punjor to master his magical illusions—hoping to use them to vanish from the clutches of the law. With the Yogi’s guidance, they learn to duplicate his tricks, but one crucial detail remains untaught: how to undo them.

In "The Strange Seed!", Mark’s experiment takes a terrifying turn when a wounded plant reacts with violent life, attacking him and fusing with a cut on his arm—turning it a strange, unsettling green. The line between botany and horror blurs as the once-passive flora becomes something far more dangerous.