Weird Fantasy #20

In a chilling 1953 tale from *Weird Fantasy #20*, a scientist under FBI scrutiny claims he once lived on an alternate Earth where Abraham Lincoln survived 1865 and forged a lasting global peace. Driven by a desperate hope to witness that world firsthand, he built a time machine to meet Lincoln in the past—only to unknowingly alter history, triggering the very assassination that doomed his own timeline.

In "I, Rocket," a sentient spacecraft recounts her storied past under Captain Lamb, her pride in serving humanity’s frontier, and the quiet, deadly betrayals that unfolded among her crew—where loyalty was tested and lives were lost in the silent void.

In the 1953 science fiction tale "...Conquers All!", an alien invasion crew—led by an unnamed Chief and including Phebe, Cuno, Mara, Xano, and others—arrive on Earth to assess it for conquest. But when they encounter something utterly foreign and inexplicable—emotions—they begin to question their mission, leading to a quiet, unsettling shift in their purpose.

In a world where life is dictated by the state, a man desperate to break free finds his attempts at suicide futile—each time, he's brought back, his body deemed State Property. When he finally chooses to end himself by plunging into molten slag, the very substance that consumes him becomes the frame for a new existence: a robot that carries his consciousness.