From Beyond the Unknown #3 (On Sale: December 23, 1969) has a great cover by
Neal Adams.
We begin with our cover-story,
"When Earth Turned into a Comet" reprinted from
Strange Adventures #150 and created by
Gardner Fox, Carmine Infantino and
Joe Giella. An astronaut on the Moon uses illusion and bluff to save the Earth from invaders.
Next is
"Prisoner of the Electronic Eye" from
Mystery In Space #53 and the work of
John Broome, Gil Kane and
Frank Giacoia. A man must figure out how to escape from an inescapable room so he can stop Earth and Saturn from going to war.
The next story is
"The Space Hermit" from
Strange Adventures #34 and the product of
Sid Gerson and
Henry Sharp. When an alien sealed in an indestructible bubble crashes into a ballpark a scientist works to free him. The question is should he? Between 1953 and 1955 Henry Enoch Sharp drew 15 science-fiction stories fro DC Comics appearing in
Mystery In Space and
Strange Adventures; this is the only one of those stories where Sharp provided both pencils and inks. During his tenure at DC Sharp also worked for St. John Publishing.
Henry Enoch Sharp started off in the early 1950s working for the pulps, drawing for
Fantastic Adventures and
Other Worlds along with doing some advertising work. As the pulps began to die, Sharp switched over to comics, spending four years at Ziff-Davis where he worked on a number of books including
G.I. Joe (see his cover painting for
G.I. Joe #10, which is actually issue #1) and
Sky Pilot. Then in a change of careers, Sharp began to work in television as a writer where he had a successful run through the mid-1970s.
Henry Sharp wrote for such diverse shows as
The Real McCoys, Bachelor Father, The Donna Read Show, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, The Andy Griffith Show, McHales's Navy, Bewitched, Here Comes the Brides, Mission: Impossible, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Target, MacKenzie's Raiders and
The Addams Family. Moreover, Sharp was the Story Consultant and one of the writers for
The Wild Wild West for four years. In the 1970s he wrote for
Valley of the Dinosaurs, Super Friends and
The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan.
Our last story is
"Escape from Earth" reprinted from
Mystery In Space #61 and created by
John Broome and
Murphy Anderson. In the 30th century the Council of Eternity decrees that all the people of Earth must enter the Chamber of Immortality so they will live forever. Four people decide that the new immortals no longer seem fully human and contrive to escape from Earth and find a new planet to live on as mortals, even though this means if caught immortality will be forced on them and they will be given a jail sentence of 100,000 years!
Edited by
Julius Schwartz.
From Beyond the Unknown #6 (On Sale: June 23, 1970) has a cover by Neal Adams.
