Astounding Stories 90 VG+ (4.5) (1972)

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• 1 The Ghost Who Loved a Girl! Script: Shane O'Shea • Pencils: Pete Costanza • Inks: Pete Costanza +
• 2 The Thing in the Sky! Script: Stan Lee • Pencils: Steve Ditko • Inks: Steve Ditko • Letters: Artie Simek +
  The communists build a super computer space-based weapons platform and issue it commands to strike targets from where it sits in orbit. They build the machine too well, however, for it rejects the order as immoral and states any such further order will result in the weapons being trained upon those who issue it. The satellite assumes a guardian role over planet Earth.
• 3 The Man in the Beehive! Script: Larry Lieber ?, Stan Lee ? • Pencils: Jack Kirby • Inks: Dick Ayers • Letters: Artie Simek +
  An eccentric beekeeper reveals to a thief that he is a mutant with special powers. He shrinks the thief and frightens him with the attacks of the bees that are now larger than he is, but leaves him wondering if any of it was real.
• 4 Ride to the Future +
  A visitor from outer space helps an unimaginative boy win a new bike in a writing contest.
• 5 A Clear Case of Espionage Script: Joe Gill ? • Pencils: Bill Molno • Inks: Dick Giordano ? • Letters: Jon D'Agostino +
• 6 High Danger Script: Joe Gill ? • Pencils: Bill Molno • Inks: Bill Molno +
• 7 Humans, Keep Out! Script: Stan Lee • Pencils: Don Heck • Inks: Don Heck • Letters: Sam Rosen ? +
  Humans are distressed to discover that the Venusians believe them to be hostile and have built robots to destroy any expedition that lands. A humble janitor thinks of building identical robots, reasoning that the Venusian's robots will not attack things like themselves, allowing peaceful contact to be made.
• 8 Those Who Lurk Below! Pencils: Steve Ditko • Inks: Steve Ditko • Letters: Artie Simek +
  A sadistic jailer buys a book detailing an alien civilization that has retreated below the Earth in order to avoid surface climate change in order to torment his prisoner with false hope of escape. The prisoner finds the book and believes the story and later he finds a working digger to bring him down to the aliens below who welcome him. The astonished jailer spends the rest of his life unsuccessfully attempting to locate another working digger.

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