Speed Carter, Spaceman #5
Die, Spaceman, Die!
Speed Carter and Johnny Day are caught in a fight between space pirates when their ship is shot down, causing them to crash land on a previously uncharted Arctic world. While their ship is mostly intact it can no longer fly and so the two leave their ship to find a means of escape. Outside their ship they find massive prehistoric creatures as well as humans trapped in large blocks of ice.
Realizing the humans are in suspended animation, Speed uses their incapacitated ship's rockets to melt the ice freeing them. They are shocked to learn that they are explorers from Earth that came to this world in the year 2050 and were frozen in ice by the planets inhabitants when they were examining the frozen prehistoric creatures.
Suddenly the Ice People ambush them and accuses Speed and the others as trying to free the prehistoric beasts and immobilizes them with their freeze rays. However some of the Ice People turn out to be renegades and take control and free the prehistoric creatures while trying to make an escape in the Space Sentinel ship. Freed, Speed and the others help the other Ice People escape in the explorers antique rocket ship while the traitors are destroyed when the prehistoric creatures attack the incapacitated Space Sentinel rocket, causing it to explode.
Recurring Characters
Space Sentinels
Speed Carter
Johnny Day
Speed Carter, Spaceman
The planet Earth is being attacked by the Beastmen who are countered by the Space Sentinels. Among those fighting are Speed Carter, Johnny Day, and legendary Space Sentinel Major Ram. However Ram is bitten on both his arms by one of the Beastmen. Rushing Ram back to Earth, Speed and Johnny are shocked to learn that the decorated hero must have his arms amputated in order to save his life from the Beastmen's poison.
Major Ram is then demoted and is denied requests to fly a ship. Soon the Beastmen attack the Earth again. While Speed and the other Space Sentinels battle the invasion fleet they are unaware that it is a distraction as the Beastmen have used a magnetic device to hurl a meteor at the Earth. Learning of this danger, Major Ram steals a ship and flies into the meteor, killing him instantly upon impact. However his sacrifice sends the meteor hurtling back at the Beastmen's planet destroying it.
Major Ram is given a heroes burial and new cadets now go and pay their respects to the fallen hero.
Recurring Characters
Space Sentinels
Speed Carter
Johnny Day
A Slaughter in Space!
Speed Carter and Stellar Stone are dispatched to the planet Vega after the United Planets receive a request from that world to join their federation. However when they arrive they soon learn it is a trap and they are captured by the Vegans. The leader of the Vegans then orders Speed Carter to provide them with a map of Earth's defences or they will kill Stellar. Stellar tells Speed not to do it, but he shocks her by agreeing and she calls him a traitor.
Speed returns to Earth where he tells Colonel Stone what happened and asks to turn over the defence plans to the Vegans, he refuses to allow Speed to do so. Later that night, Speed breaks into the records room and steals the map and flees the Earth. Soon Colonel Stone and his men come across the break in and are also convinced that Speed has betrayed the Space Sentinels.
When Speed turns over the plans to the leader of the Vegans, he finds that the leader is not true to his word and takes Speed hostage as well and takes both he and Stellar along with his fleet on their invasion of Earth before killing them. However, Speed has anticipated this, and breaks free from his bond and tosses the Vegan leader out of the airlock and frees Stellar. They then watch as the Vegan fleet flies right into Earth's defences and are destroyed.
Returning to Earth, Speed explains to Stellar and the Colonel that he altered the map to lure the Vegans into a trap and is welcomed back into the Space Sentinels. Stellar meanwhile rewards him with a kiss.
Recurring Characters
Space Sentinels
Speed Carter
Stellar Stone
Colonel Stone
