How “Space Mysteries #09” begins
Every balloon from the first pages, as it is read aloud:
Space mysteries
Nothing seems to stop "the monsters from another planet"!
Brad cummings hatches as his boss, the great physicist, walter jackson, makes an adjustment on the near-complete new electronic calculator…
Excuse me, professor jackson, but that adjustment is not according to the blueprint…
Cummings, cerebex is going to be unique--the most powerful electronic brain in the world! You can't build genius from a blueprint!
Have another argument with old jackson, brad?
You know, don, i'm worried. Jackson is doing things to that brain i don't understand at all.
The giant electronic "brain" was a marvel of modern ingenuity--until it was twisted into the devilish patterns of a madman's mind!
You are dr. Brad cummings? I must talk to you! It is urgent!
Certainly! Join us, won't you, miss …
… smith! Call me mary smith! I must tell you something… about professor jackson--and the giant brain! You remember the terrible dictator schmackenburg?
Sure--schmackenburg tried to conquer the world, but he committed suicide in that bunker.
The suicide was a sham! I tell you schmackenburg lives… and your professor jackson is one of his faithful followers!
… schmackenburg is here in disguise. He is dying… but jackson is building the giant calculator… into the image of schmackenburg's mad brain!
This would explain the way jackson has been acting… And yet why should we believe you… ?
There isn't time to explain! Hurry! To the laboratory!
They arrive at the building housing the brain…
This will finish the job! The machine is now re-molded into the exact patterns your brain showed on the instruments, master!
Good! You have done well! With this i shall rule the world once again!
No, It is my work! I shall rule the world! Your brain will work for me as mine has worked for you!
Nein! Nein! Jackson, you dare not… Aaaahhhh…
Jackson! You're insane!
Stop where you are! When i throw this switch, the work of conquest begins!