On the advice of my attorney, I'm not supposed to discuss any "crystal in my blood."

We added a tag for "Starstream" but this'll be the last one! From 1976, Starstream #3.

I looked up the author of the first story here, Jack Williamson, since I thought "Born of the Sun" might have been an early death-ray story; the "poison flame!" Nope, but he did come up with the word "terraforming" first. This is an end of the world story, with a scientist, his girl, and his gunslinging uncle trying to escape both the doomed planet and the Cult of the Great Egg. The Cult, while creepy and evil, is legitimately right about a few things...(Adapted by Ed Summer, art by Don Heck.

"A Day in the Life of Dr. Moon" is another original, as opposed to an adaptation of a pulp story; which follows a doctor sweating out 15 years on the moon to cover his medical school bills. He's run pretty ragged with a plague-carrier on the loose, assorted moon-crazies, and performing a plastic lung transplant; all on two hours of sleep! If this was updated at all, that doctor would be on so many drugs...(Written by Harry Dawes, art by Frank Bolle.)

"Microcosmic God" by Theodore Sturgeon feels like another story that has been stolen from bit by bit over the years: an enterprising young scientist and an up-and-coming financier team up, which is profitable for several years, until the scientist starts devoting himself to some real science: creating life in the lab, then through selective breeding raising a miniature society of hyperfast lizards! Giving the lizards problems like changing their environment, the scientist is able to copy their work for even more advances, but the financier decides to use those discoveries to blackmail the entire earth. Ooh, a financier turns out to be a dick. Shocker. (Adapted by Arnold Drake, art by Adolfo Buylla.)

"Last Voyage of the Albatross" is an A.E. Van Vogt story about the missing crew of a whaling ship--y'know, screw them, leave whales alone. (Adapted by George Kashdan, art by Al McWilliams.) Those pages could've been used for more of Anne McCaffrey's "The Crystal Singer" since that would go on for a trilogy of novels and more. When young Killashandra's hopes of being an opera singer are dashed, a chance meeting with a member of the Heptite Guild gives her a new--and dangerous--opportunity. With her perfect pitch, she can hear the crystal 'sing,' and can mine it for the big money; but the call of the crystal is addictive, and fatal in the end...Still, Killashandra was unwilling to do anything, if she wasn't going to be the best at it; but for her first mission, guild by-laws say she has to be accompanied by a partner, who is obviously fried. (Adapted by Dan Weiss, art by Frank Bolle.)