Comic Title: Pulp Fiction Library:Mystery in Space TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 1999
On Sale Date: September 1, 1999 Direct Market Date August 4, 1999
Source: Previews, Vol. 9 #6 (#126)

Direct Market Date September 1, 1999
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, September 1, 1999

Direct Market Date September 1, 1999
Source: Diamond Shipping List, Shipping This Week: September 1

Direct Market Date September 1, 1999
Source: Usenet, Late Comics Report for the week of September 2, 1999

Copyright Date August 20, 1999
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1999

Cover Price: $19.95
Page Count: 224
Editor: Dale Crain

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "What Happened on Sirius-4?"
Pages: 8

Feature(s):
Star Rovers

Writer: Gardner F. Fox
Artist: Sid Greene

Reprinted From:
Mystery in Space #69 (1961)

Feature Character(s)

• Star Rovers (Karel Sorensen, Rick Purvis, and Homer Glint; last appearance in Mystery in Space #66; next appearance in Mystery in Space #74)

Villain(s)

• The Sorn (an war-like alien race; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• The people of Kalmoral (no further appearances)

Comments:
The name Star Rovers is not officially used by the adventurers in this story.

Synopsis:
After receiving a distress call, three adventurers, who would later be known as the Star Rovers, travel to the planet Kalmoral in the Sirius system to learn what happened to the people. Rick Purvis believes that the people and their cities were destroyed long ago by alien invaders. Karel Sorensen discovers a strange ramp, which she believes helped the population teleport to safety. Homer Glint finds an underground chamber with the missing population sleeping in suspended animation. He believes they placed themselves into comas to avoid the harmful effects of a magnetic force endangering their world.

While comparing stories, an alien ship attacks, then is strangely disintegrated. A man appears and explains the true story of Kalmoral. An alien race, known as the Sorn, attacked their world. To fight their enemies, the ramp was constructed and powered by the concentrated minds of its sleeping people. The distress call was a lure to get the Sorn to attack, so the people of Kalmoral could use the weapon against their enemies.

Having been proven wrong, the adventurers return home, agreeing to keep the secret of the sleeping world until it is safe from the Sorn.