Action packed 1950 comic book cover

Mark Frauenfelder 1:46 pm Thu Jun 11, 2015

jiuw36 From the Dr. Bronner school of illustration: Journey Into Unknown Worlds #36, September 1950. Artist: Russ Heath.

In the year 3250 A.D., the alien tyrant Lod takes control of the population of the planet Moog and makes them into his human "robots." Lod eventually grows bored of living amongst "robots" so he mentally probes interstellar space and finds the beautiful Ona Gorn on Earth; determined to make her his bride, Lod teleports Ona to his world. But Ona's boyfriend Paul Rale learns of her abduction; Paul flies in a spaceship to Moog and incites the human "robots" to revolt against Lod's tyranny and rescues Ona.

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