Beyond The Seeker From Beyond

Weird Adventures must have been a popular title for a comic book during the summer of 1951 as it was used by two separate publishers. One was P.L. Publishing which ran for a short three issues, while the other was a one-shot printed by Ziff-Davis even though it was numbered Issue #10 of a series. The cover story for this sci-fi anthology was The Seeker From Beyond where John Grant is out on the town with his girlfriend Jane as he is followed by a gorgeous blonde dressed like a Star Trek lass-of-the-week. John almost gets run over by a car, but the bikini-clad diva shoots a ray gun at the oncoming automobile. John just goes home thinking that it was a little strange that a random space babe melted a car in the middle of downtown when the girl appears in his bedroom claiming that she was Zada, Queen of the far-off planet Xedes. Zada relays a telepathic backstory about how she killed her ex-lover Zandor that raised an army against her, and that she had gone on a long quest looking for Zandor's reincarnation. The space lady irrational leaves John after relaying all this to him and she continues to watch him when he is making out with Jane on a park bench. Zanda begins to throttle Jane which causes John to concede to the mad alien queen's demands. John plans to let her take him back to her world that night, but he puts on an act a wannabe tyrant who would usurp the throne from her. The fickle Zanda poofs off in an angry cloud of smoke with John patting himself on the back for pretending to be a male chauvinist, even though given the time period wouldn't be too far off from the truth. The short 6-page story ends abruptly ends which could have covered more of Zanda's cosmic journey, instead we get an inconsequential tale of a regular guy being stalked by a mad cosplayer.

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