Space War #6

When the Martian dictator Valkor launches an artificial satellite toward Earth to scout it for conquest, his scientists transmit back horrifying images of ice wastelands, lethal heat, and giant monsters—making the planet seem worthless and unconquerable. Unknown to Valkor, a growing resistance movement led by Cralus has sabotaged the satellite's feed with fabricated footage, sparking a rebellion that topples the tyrant's regime. In 1960, Earth waits unknowingly that Mars has both the means to invade and, thanks to a clever deception, a chance at something other than conquest.

Prof. Calvin Barnes unveils his implosion bomb—a device designed to dispose of waste by banishing matter to another dimension—but his invention catches the eye of Jovian invaders who see it as the perfect weapon to conquer Earth. Forced to build eleven larger bombs for the aliens, Barnes must use his wits and the very technology he created to turn the tables on his captors and save the world.

When Professor Jay Sorrell's jealous obsession with technician Helen Hudson goes unanswered, he devises a sinister plan: he builds a robot duplicate of her, programmed to drive a wedge between Helen and her fiancé Don Weston. But Sorrell's creation becomes far more dangerous than he anticipated, turning its programmed hatred against its maker in a shocking twist of fate. This 1960 tale of science gone wrong proves that even the most carefully calculated schemes can backfire with devastating consequences.

Martin Miles, a science-fiction writer and artist in Arizona, thinks nothing of it when his friend Leon Custer suggests a story idea about blue-skinned aliens from the planet Bantro who need Earth's sand to restore their dying civilization—until Martin's fictional tale of invasion and resource extraction starts coming true in the nearby Clive Desert. As the aliens begin their conquest, Martin remains blissfully unaware that his imaginative work is documenting actual events unfolding just miles away.