Mystery in Space #33

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CGC records 15 graded copies for Mystery in Space #33 (1956). Population is the number recorded by this grading source, not the total print run or all surviving copies.

The Wooden World War

In the 26th Century, wood isn’t actively used as a material anymore and what few wooden things there is are antique. When all the wood suddenly begins to emit a poisonous gas, the government orders all of it destroyed.

This turns out to be a scheme by some alien invaders since cellulose is the only thing their weapons can’t disintegrate. Luckily, a museum curator secretly saved some World War I-era wooden biplanes which are used to single-handedly repel the alien fleet.

| StoryTitle2 = Fix-it Men from Outer Space | Synopsis2 = In 1957, strange weather phenomena rocks the Earth. It turns out this is caused by alien handymen whose ancestors made the planet habitable by making it spin, and who now want to further "fix" the planets slight wobble, which causes it to no longer experience different seasons.

Fortunately, amidst the global chaos, two men come across the discarded alien device and repair it, allowing the planet to spin again. The alien handymen are too lazy to repair it again and leave it for the next repair crew due back in two billion years.

| StoryTitle3 = Interplanetary Safari | Synopsis3 = Space Cabbie accidentally damages a space-truck hauling animals for the interplanetary zoo and agrees to haul the trailers himself since he can’t afford the fine. Space Cabbie is enlisted by the zookeeper to capture three animals from a jungle asteroid.

One of the animals is a giant caterpillar that hibernates in an invisible cocoon during the day and only comes out at night, which will take an entire week to come. Cabbie tricks it into coming out by using the trailers to cause an eclipse. The second is a super-fast bird, which Cabbie tricks into a cage by placing its eggs there.

The third is an tardigrade-like creature that creates an exact double of itself. The fake one exhales carbon monoxide which would kill the other animals. Since they barely even breathe, Space Cabbie identifies which is which by using pepper to make them sneeze.

| StoryTitle4 = Stranger on Earth! | Synopsis4 = To become a member of the Science Council of Antares, Karr is transported to Earth and stripped of the knowledge of which planet he's from as well as any scientific knowledge that humans haven’t figured out yet. Karr builds a working spaceship with the help of crackpot scientist Tommy Willett and flies off to search for his planet.

Karr spots a comet heading straight towards Earth and doubles back to Earth to warn them. Since the comet is mostly made of uranium, they use a bomb to detonate it before it impacts. Karr realises that the comet's tail wasn’t pointing towards the sun like it should and follows it's point back to Antares, as it turns out saving Earth was part of his test.

| Appearing1 = **Featured Characters:** * Dr. Bradford Stone **Supporting Characters:** * William Hendricks **Antagonists:** * Alien invaders **Other Characters:** * **Locations:** * 25th Century * 26th Century ** Earth City **Items:** * **Vehicles:** * World War I Biplanes * Alien spacecrafts

| Appearing2 = **Characters:** * Larry Wade, geological prospector * Aliens

**Locations:** * 1957 ** Arctic Circle ** Middle East **Items:** * **Vehicles:** * alien starship

| Appearing3 = **Featured Characters:** * Space Cabby) **Supporting Characters:** * Buck Bolton **Antagonists:** * **Other Characters:** * **Locations:** * 22nd Century ** Asteroid Jungle ** Interplanetary Zoo **Items:** * **Vehicles:** * Space Cab

| Appearing4 = **Characters:** * Antareans ** John Carr/Karr * Tommy

**Locations:** * 1956 ** Earth ** Antares **Items:** * **Vehicles:** * spaceship

| Notes = * Includes "Wonders of Space", a two pages text about Pluto), where its status as a planet is put on check (1956!). In 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) formally redefined the term planet to exclude dwarf planets such as Pluto. * "Fix-it Men from Outer Space" implies that life on Earth only developed because aliens fixed the planet's rotation 2 billion years ago. * | Trivia = | Recommended = | Links =

Creative credits

Writers: John Broome, Joe Samachson, Otto Binder

Interior art: Sid Greene, Carmine Infantino, Gil Kane

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