Weird Fantasy #17

In the depths of a collapsing mine, mining engineer Jerry Gordon survives a cataclysm that leaves the surface world in ruins. Emerging to find a landscape scarred by atomic fire and learning that his nation’s victory came at a terrible cost, he faces a growing dread—his own son, once innocent, is now changing in ways no one can explain.

In a 1951 tale of accidental time travel, Donald Yubyutch—known to the lab as a shmoe—volunteers for a journey through time, only to be denied by Professor Serutane. Undeterred, he slips into the time-top machine alone and arrives in the 9th century, where his modern ways mark him as mad and he’s put to work cleaning up after a royal court.

In "Deadlock!", a lone Earth ship drifts through the void, its crew on edge after two years in space—until a strange alien craft appears. As mistrust grows and communication breaks down through a malfunctioning brain machine, the crew and the alien visitors alike fall victim to their own fears.

In "Prediction of Disaster!", Professor Henley Horton stumbles upon a terrifying cosmic truth: the sun itself is on the brink of a catastrophic explosion. Armed with a groundbreaking theory about infrared anomalies signaling stellar collapse, he races to prove his findings—only to realize the warning applies to Earth’s own star. With time running out and no one willing to believe him, the fate of the planet rests on a lone scientist’s desperate plea.