Startling Comics #53

In "The Stone Man from Space!" from Startling Comics #53, the alien Vuldoom, a relentless collector from the distant planet Deneb, hauls captives across the stars—including Tygra and Terry, both from Alpha Centauri. When fellow prisoners from their shared origin join forces, they must find a way to break free from their captor’s grasp before their journey ends in captivity.

Lance Lewis, space detective supreme, arrives at an all-solar music festival on Jupiter just as a mysterious space-ship explosion rocks the solar system—and all the clues point to an ordinary greeting card. When he discovers that a brilliant young violinist named Don Wayne has become the unwitting pawn in a sinister blackmail scheme, Lance must race against time to prevent a catastrophic broadcast that could endanger countless lives across the galaxy.

A young man blessed with good looks but cursed with criminal ambition, "Pretty Boy" Floyd charmed his way into petty crime before graduating to house-breaking and armed robbery across the Midwest. As his brazen gang escalates from bank jobs to violent rescues, federal agents close in relentlessly, turning Floyd's handsome facade into a liability as the chase becomes his undoing. This true crime story traces how a smooth-talking crook's big ideas collided with the law's even bigger reach.

Sir Ronald Blake, the swashbuckling Sea Eagle, races to rescue Lady Jane from ruthless Caribbean pirates who've kidnapped her and demand a king's ransom—but the stakes run far deeper than a simple hostage exchange when a crucial royal document falls into the cutthroats' hands. When the Sea Eagle's trusted fiancée, Kit Young, is forced ashore as a bargaining chip, he discovers the pirates have played him for a fool, and now both women are imprisoned in the brigands' island stronghold. With cunning and steel, the Sea Eagle must navigate treachery and violence to outwit One Eye and his crew before they can exploit the document for their own gain.