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PERILOUS DAWN…

Major Perry Rhodan, commander of the spaceship STARDUST, found more than anyone had expected might exist on the moon — for he became the first man to make contact with another sentient race!

The Arkonides had come from a distant star, and they possessed a knowledge of science and philosophy that dwarfed mankind's knowledge.

But these enormously powerful alien beings refused to cooperate with the people of Earth… unless Perry Rhodan could pass the most difficult test any human being had ever faced…

CHALLENGE FROM THE STARS…

Perry Rhodan had returned from the moon in Spaceship Stardust accompanied by two of the Arkonides. But the earth was on the verge of an atomic conflict. So Perry Rhodan, Peacelord of the Universe, threw an impregnable forcefield around the Stardust and declared his ship independent of the warring nations.

As he had hoped, the holocaust was temporarily averted by the more deadly threat of his allies from the stars; but could Perry Rhodan keep the peace long enough to persuade the Arkonides that mankind was fit to enter their galactic community?

REPTILIAN INVADERS…

Ravaging through the far reaches of space was a race of reptilian beings who compulsively destroyed every civilization they found… and now they had heard of Earth.

Perry Rhodan and his Third Power were mankind’s only hope against these marauders. With his Mutant Corps, Rhodan headed out into the distant besieged Vega system to fend off the aliens before they reached Earth.

But in the savage battle at the Vega sector, his ship damaged beyond repair, Rhodan is forced to crash-land on a Vega planet. And with Perry powerless, Earth is doomed to destruction by the slaughtering Topide reptiles…

TARGET OF DOOM

Blazing across the galactic spirals, Perry Rhodan, Peace Lord of the Universe, drove the attacking reptilian hordes out of the central star system to their lair in the Orion-Delta constellation.

But the aliens were not finished, they had merely withdrawn the remnants of their fleet to the outer edges of the Vega Sector. And there, in the vast Fortress of the Six Moons they waited, gathering strength for the next assault, watching with seething hatred as the only being who had dared defy them prepared to meet his doom…

SOLAR MENACE

After the tyrant of Tuglan, betrayer of his planet's people, has been destroyed, Perry Rhodan, Peace Lord of the Universe, anticipates a peaceful return to Ferrol… but such was not to be. Emerging from hyperspace in the mighty Stardust II, Rhodan encounters chaos of cosmic Vega, a stable sun, is unaccountably going nova!

And if the Ferrons, faced with fiery extinction, are to be saved, there is only one course open to he must fulfill the destiny demanded of him and meet face to face with Immortal Unknown…

THE SOLAR SYSTEM INVADED

The planets of the solar system have hardly recovered from the ravages of the Mutant Master, Monterny, when they are faced by the greatest menace of all time: intelligent beings from outside our own system, possibly from outside the galaxy, are moving in, bent on conquest.

Not waiting for his forces to muster, Perry, with a handful of followers, dashes for Transplutonia, the outer fringes of known space, only to find that he is apparently helpless against this nameless menace.

DANGER IN TRIPLICATE

When Perry Rhodan discovers the home world of Khrest and Thora he finds that three planets are, literally, better than one. For Perry has to confront not just Arkon I, but Arkon II and Arkon III. And each planet is dedicated to a purpose all its own: one of them… war!

The warrior planet supplies a super battleship of space a mile long… and Perry Rhodan and his mutant crew find themselves serving under Thora on a deadly mission.

Deadly…. and violent, when the Peacelord and his allies are faced with hundreds of berserk battle-robots bent on destruction, in one of Perry Rhodan's greatest adventures.

PLANET OF PERIL…

A sinister psychic force spreads throughout the galaxy. The Moofs have issued their ultimatum and, for Perry Rhodan, it spells deadly danger.

Meanwhile, seven hundred members of the New Power's crew are critically ill. The Aras, medical masters of the universe, must be found.

And the answer to their whereabouts lies in an alien world of 250 mile-an-hour hurricanes and seas of ammonia…

ATLAN THE AMAZING

SUPERHUMAN?

WHO is this mysterious ATLAN… mistaken for a fish… mystifying the Mutant Corps with his personal "monoblock”… possessor of an invisibility device?

A HIBERNATOR who has overslept the menacing Warmageddon which was averted at the penultimate moment, he poses a mystery to all who meet him. Especially Perry Rhodan.

WHY is Atlan edgy when Arkonides are mentioned?

WHAT are his fatal mistakes that cause him to change personality twice before revealing his real nature and purpose?

AND who does he challenge, and why, to a death duel on a broiling desert Hell World 12,000 light-years from Earth?

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COSMOS

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From Alpha Centauri a menace threatens the Solar System and only 3 aliens can change the course of events!

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WHEN 10,000 YEARS MEET TODAY

MENTOR OF MANKIND.

Atlan.

Out of hibernation and into the 21st Century, having encountered Perry Rhodan and learned of the civilizationary achievements of the Solar Empire, has Atlan's secret role in the guided social evolution of the human race served its purpose and his time come to retire?

No! And no again!

Far from it. Time's Lonely One, with his personal knowledge of history and his experiences with the Weird Ones from the other dimension, make this ancient yet ever young Arkonide a key figure in galactic happenings.

His latest report causes a 10,000 year past to influence the "present" of the future in a highly dramatic fashion in—

FORTRESS ATLANTIS

10,000 YEARS PAST

THE SUNKEN WORLD—what was it like before it sank?

One man of the future knows for he was there, in its prime and at its end.

The Crystal Prince… the Immortal… Time's Lonely One: Atlan!

Atlan the Arkonide, already eternal, while Rhodan & Bell, aboard the spaceship Drusus, have landed on the synthetic planet Wanderer in order to seek a boon from It, the mysterious multiplex intelligence—another "draught" from the "Fountain of Youth."

When something unexpected occurs which causes Pucky to fear for the lives of Rhodan & Bell, Atlan cuts short his flashback to the ancient island, where we witness—

THE LAST DAYS OF ATLANTIS

RED ALERT!

6562 LIGHT-YEARS from Earth, the Solar Empire's base on the former colonial world Grautier is in a state of alarm as the Spacefleet of Terra prepares to battle the hordes of Druufon.

Out around Grautier, two time-planes are beginning to stabilize—Earth's Einstein continuum and that of the alien universe of the Druufs.

Perry Rhodan, Atlan, Bell, watch developments expectantly and Rhodan develops a bold plan.

Atlan is more than apprehensive for already 10,000 years ago this Prince of Arkon fought the monstrous foe.

A scarlet geyser of blood must surely erupt again as conflict flares in—

CRIMSON UNIVERSE

ROBOT REGENT, BEWARE!

MACHINE BRAIN of Ancient Arkon, your Imperial rule is threatened!

Your positronic control of a star realm may be dangerously near to destruction.

Do your mechanical innards know that even now, as interested parties read these words, Recruits for Arkon, fresh from Conflict Center Naator, are on their way to your domain, intent on destroying you?

Then who will hold the key to your power in their hands?

Ah, yes… a question of infinite import.

Answered in—

POWER KEY

THE BATTLE FOR TERRA!

PERIL FROM PLUTO!

S.O.S. Earth! Druufs breaking thru an artificially created cone connecting their plane with the Outpost planet!

Atlan's help sought—10,000 spaceships dispatched to Earth's aid! 4000 Springers involved!

Mutants to the rescue... thru the Rings!

The Robot Regent of Arkon sends the message of the Century!

Can the defense & secrecy line be held at Saturn?

History is made in—

THE COLUMBUS AFFAIR

Perry Rhodan and his companions journey to the planet Barkon to search for the missing Barkonides, leading to the discovery of a dying world and a species in suspended animation.

A FLIGHT OF "FANTASY”!

A SPACESHIP so fantastic that it is right- fully christened Fantasy.

A new spacedrive is quietly to be tested, a method previously unknown. If successful, it promises a whole new epoch in space travel, an unprecedented blossoming out into the unknown vastness of the cosmic realm.

Perry Rhodan & his men prepare to leap farther out into the universe than they have ever gone before.

How Auris of the emerald eyes & coppery hair glinting with metallic highlights figures in the exploratory trip of the Fantasy, will be revealed, along with other aspects of this beautiful alien, on your way to—

THE TARGET STAR

OF ASSASSINS & ATLAN

ATTEMPTS on his life.

Eternal intrigues.

Threats to his reign.

The rule of the Imperator of Arkon is certainly not one of serenity.

His subjects hate him!

His ancestors despise him!

And now, it appears, there is a new nuisance on the blue horizon: aliens intent on pitting the Realm of Arkon against the Solar Empire!

Atlan must meet with Perry Rhodan to defeat this malicious plan, this systematically arranged sabotage by—

THE BLUE SYSTEM

CROSSROADS OF EMPIRE

CHIEF of the Mutant Corps to ATLAN:

"Rhodan was captured by his son. The Antis paramechanically brainwashed him, unlawfully altered his personality. Now he wants to find Trakarat and attack it.

"The survival of the Solar Empire is threatened. War is imminent. We must have the full cooperation of the Baalol scientists.

"For Perry Rhodan is the Earth!"

The crisis leads to—

DUEL UNDER THE DOUBLE SUN

111

Only through mass evacuation could the inhabitants of the planet Azgola be saved from the deadly Spoors of Doom. And, in the final analysis, all oxygen-breathing worlds face the same threat from this lethal menace from the depths of galactic space. Everyone is at the mercy of—

SEEDS OF RUIN

112

Atlan, the Imperator of Arkon, is faced with a terrible cosmic riddle. Why did an unknown race, perhaps 100,000 years ago, institute an operation that would bring ruin and destruction to races in the far future? To save his own planet of Arkon 2 and to solve this hideous puzzle, Atlan must learn the secret of—

PLANET MECHANICA

117

The behind-the-scenes machinations of the Akons have finally spelled the end of a 20,000-year-old stellar empire. Atlan is dethroned. The tragic end of Atlan's reign is not only a catastrophe for his subjects—it could also mean the end of Rhodan's Solar Imperium. For without the support of the robot fleet, how will the Terrans repel the escalating attacks of the Aras, Springers and Akons?

SAVIOR OF THE EMPIRE

118

Who were the invaders from the infinite realms of galactic space? Powerful, invisible, and so filled with malice that they attacked all they came in contact with, they seemed to be invincible.

No known weapon seemed to be able to stop them, and when their vicious attacks defeated even Earth's Mutant Corps, Perry Rhodan knew he was facing the most dangerous enemies he had ever encountered.

THE SHADOWS ATTACK