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Vampire, whole no. 8, December 1946

Page 17

skulls and other fragments of humanity floated conspicuously amid the boiling fluid.
But what a woman! She was, as nearly as Jack could guess, about fifteen feet tall, and proportionately large elsewhere. "Aha," thought Jack, "the giant's wife." Nor was he mistaken in this assumption, as we shall soon see. He stepped boldly into the kitchen and confronted her.
"Who are you?" she demanded, as she caught sight of him.
"My name is Jack," said our hero proudly.
"Oh, no!" screamed the woman, "not another one!"
"Oh, yes," answered Jack. As you can see, he was adept at repartee. Before the conversation could continue, a loud thumping noise echoed outside, and the ground shook as if in the grip of an earthquake. Naturally, being up in the clouds, this could not have been possible, but Jack's active mind quickly managed to forget this fact. 
"Come quickly," said the lady giant. "My husband is coming. He would eat you up if he saw you. He gets jealous as heck when he finds strange men in the house. You must hide."
Jack realized the truth of her words, and jumped into the oven. Luckily for our hero, it was not in use at the time or I fear there might have been serious consequences.
However, as soon as Jack had hidden himself, the door swung open and in walked the giant. Peeking through a crack in the oven door, Jack saw the hideous creature. I will pass over the dialogue at this point because it has no direct bearing on the story. The giant's wife fixed him six dozen cold chickens, which he devoured with hoggish enjoyment. After gorging himself with food, he went to sleep in his chair, but not before he had taken out the gold he carried with him and counted it. Satisfied that it was all there, he fell into a deep slumber.
Seeing the giant was asleep and that his wife was not around, Jack crept silently from the oven and approached the monstrous figure. Noting the sagging of one pocket, our hero's keen, analytical mind at once surmised that the gold was deposited there. Whipping out his trusty jacknife, he carefully cut a slit in the lining of the pocket and stealthily removed what gold he could carry. Then he dashed out of the house toward the spot where he had arrived. The machine was set to return him at any moment, so Jack wasted no time. Just as the cloud world faded from view, he heard a colossal roar and saw the giant dashing outside, shaking his fists in frustrated rage. After the usual panorama of flashing lights and darkness, Jack found himself safe at home in his room once more. The gold was safe too. Now he would have enough weetongs to pay the atomic energy bill.
Jack rushed to the moving stairs and jumped on. As he was riding down to tell his mother of the events that had befallen him, a sudden thought struck him. During the time between the distant past where he had just been, and the present, the earth had moved through a considerable portion of space, since the whole Solar System is moving. Therefore, what he had just done was impossible, since he couldn't  have gone back in time to a point in space where the earth wasn't and get gold out of the empty void. As he realized this, the gold he was carrying suddenly disappeared. So did Jack.

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skulls and other fragments of humanity floated conspicuously amid the boiling fluid. But what a woman! She was, as nearly as Jack could guess, about fifteen feet tall, and proportionately large elsewhere. "Aha," thought Jack, "the giant's wife." Nor was he mistaken in this assumption, as we shall soon see. He stepped boldly into the kitchen and confronted her. "Who are you?" she demanded, as she caught sight of him. "My name is Jack," said our hero proudly. "Oh, no!" screamed the woman, "not another one!" "Oh, yes," answered Jack. As you can see, he was adept at repartee. Before the conversation could continue, a loud thumping noise echoed outside, and the ground shook as if in the grip of an earthquake. Naturally, being up in the clouds, this could not have been possible, but Jack's active mind quickly managed to forget this fact. "Come quickly," said the lady giant. "My husband is coming. He would eat you up if he saw you. He gets jealous as heck when he finds strange men in the house. You must hide." Jack realized the truth of her words, and jumped into the oven. Luckily for our hero, it was not in use at the time or I fear there might have been serious consequences. However, as soon as Jack had hidden himself, the door swung open and in walked the giant. Peeking through a crack in the oven door, Jack saw the hideous creature. I will pass over the dialogue at this point because it has no direct bearing on the story. The giant's wife fixed him six dozen cold chickens, which he devoured with hoggish enjoyment. After gorging himself with food, he went to sleep in his chair, but not before he had taken out the gold he carried with him and counted it. Satisfied that it was all there, he fell into a deep slumber. Seeing the giant was asleep and that his wife was not around, Jack crept silently from the oven and approached the monstrous figure. Noting the sagging of one pocket, our hero's keen, analytical mind at once surmised that the gold was deposited there. Whipping out his trusty jacknife, he carefully cut a slit in the lining of the pocket and stealthily removed what gold he could carry. Then he dashed out of the house toward the spot where he had arrived. The machine was set to return him at any moment, so Jack wasted no time. Just as the cloud world faded from view, he heard a colossal roar and saw the giant dashing outside, shaking his fists in frustrated rage. After the usual panorama of flashing lights and darkness, Jack found himself safe at home in his room once more. The gold was safe too. Now he would have enough weetongs to pay the atomic energy bill. Jack rushed to the moving stairs and jumped on. As he was riding down to tell his mother of the events that had befallen him, a sudden thought struck him. During the time between the distant past where he had just been, and the present, the earth had moved through a considerable portion of space, since the whole Solar System is moving. Therefore, what he had just done was impossible, since he couldn't have gone back in time to a point in space where the earth wasn't and get gold out of the empty void. As he realized this, the gold he was carrying suddenly disappeared. So did Jack. ((THIS IS PAGE # 17 ....))