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Quote1 Dear Sally -- I never told you-- I never explained-- ...that because of the inter-relation of time with motion-- while 6 months passed for me during my interstellar flight, 50 years was passing for all life on Earth!! Because of the great speed at which I traveled, I aged only half a year, while everything on Earth aged half a century!! Quote2
Frank Coventry

Appearing in "I Was a Human Satellite!"

Featured Characters:

  • Unnamed Man

Supporting Characters:

  • Rocket Service (Main story and flashback)
    • Numerous unnamed members (Only in flashback)

Antagonists:

  • Space Raiders
    • Numerous unnamed members

Other Characters:

  • Space Patrol
    • Numerous unnamed members

Races and Species:

  • Humans (Main story and flashback)

Locations:

Synopsis for "I Was a Human Satellite!"

A claustrophobic finds his fear too great for him to bear and he takes an escape pod out of the space patrol ship. He comes upon an asteroid that turns out to be a pirate base and he conquers his fear to send out a warning in a small radio room. When the space patrol lands and apprehends the pirates they welcome him back to the force.

Strange Worlds Vol 1 3 001

Appearing in "Special Sale"

Reprint of the 5th story from
Strange Tales of the Unusual #5

Featured Characters:

  • Marvin Kale (First appearance)

Supporting Characters:

  • Paula Kale (First appearance)

Other Characters:

  • Marvin and Paula's Baby

Races and Species:

Locations:

Items:

  • Magic Mist Foam (First appearance)

Synopsis for "Special Sale"

Reprint of the 5th story from
Strange Tales of the Unusual #5

When a husband goes shopping he finds a new cleaning fluid that makes anything better than new, even him.

Appearing in "My Job... Catch A Robot"

Featured Characters:

  • Chief Lyle Cushing (First appearance)

Supporting Characters:

  • Dr. Samuel Weems (First appearance)
  • Colonel Peters

Antagonists:

  • Unnamed Thief

Other Characters:

  • National Robotics Division
    • Carl
  • Numerous unnamed robot miners

Races and Species:

Locations:

  • Earth-Unknown (First appearance)
    • Sol (First appearance)
      • Earth (First appearance)
        • United States of America (First appearance)
        • Moon (First appearance)
          • United States of America Moon Colony
            • Urianum Mine Number 3
          • Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Moon Colony

Synopsis for "My Job... Catch A Robot"

The head of the robotics division goes to the American colony on the moon to investigate thefts of uranium that could only have been committed by the robot miners. He uncovers the thief, a human posing as a robot, since he knew the criminal could not have been a robot like himself.

Appearing in "I Was Face to Face with the Creature From Planet X!"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

  • Daily Cosmo
    • Mister Pike
    • Two unnamed employees
  • Unnamed Zoo Employee

Antagonists:

  • Creature from Planet X

Other Characters:

  • Timothy (Referenced) (Cynthia Adams' Nephew)
  • Scott (Referenced) (Cynthia Adams' Nephew)
  • Numerous unnamed zoo patrons

Races and Species:

Locations:

  • Earth-59433 (First appearance) (2165 A.D.)
    • Earthspace (First appearance)
      • Earth (First appearance)
        • Daily Cosmo Building
        • Unidentified Zoo
      • Planet X (Mentioned)
    • Heaven (Invoked)

Synopsis for "I Was Face to Face with the Creature From Planet X!"

In 2165 when a woman is locked in a zoo with a powerful alien beast that smashes free of its domed enclosure she is relieved when the attendants rush in with a replacement dome. They tell her that the dome is to restore the creature's native atmosphere, not her protection.

Strange Worlds Vol 1 3 011

Appearing in "I Was the Man Who Lived Twice!"

Featured Characters:

  • Gyor Kosice

Supporting Characters:

  • Gyor's Adoptive Mother
  • Gyor's Adoptive Father
  • Maria

Other Characters:

  • Gypsy Caravan
    • Numerous unnamed gypsies
  • Gretchen (Maria's Aunt)
  • Kosku (Gyor's Second Adoptive Father)
  • Greta (Gyor's Second Adoptive Mother)

Races and Species:

Locations:

Synopsis for "I Was the Man Who Lived Twice!"

A boy adopted by gypsies refuses to work hard and lives a wasted life. As he reaches middle ages he is given a second chance at life when he is shown a fountain of youth and returned to infancy, to be found and adopted by another gypsy couple.

Appearing in "I Fly to the Stars!"

Featured Characters:

  • Frank Coventry (First appearance)

Supporting Characters:

  • Sally Lang (First appearance)

Other Characters:

  • Bob (X-700 Mechanic)
  • Robert Lang (First appearance)

Races and Species:

Locations:

  • Earth-Unknown (First appearance)
    • Milky Way (First appearance)
      • Sol (First appearance)
    • Unidentified Galaxy
      • Unidentified Solar System
        • Unidentified Planet

Vehicles:

  • X-700

Synopsis for "I Fly to the Stars!"

In the year 2389 space pilots do not marry because, while six months passes for them on their journeys, decades pass for their sweethearts who remain behind on Earth.

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