“You hear that, Babe?” Jim burst out. “He’s let us off!” “Yeah, it sure surprised me!” Babe said. “I guess I misjudged the captain.” “Mr. Bowers must have radioed the captain about me,” Jim mused. “That’s how he found out.” Babe shook his head. “The captain found out on his own. He told me that Mr. Bowers wired him soon after blast-off that some urgent business had kept him from leaving on the _Hercules_. He didn’t even have time to get his bags off.” “And to think that was the main thing we were afraid of!” Jim said wryly. He looked up at his friend anxiously. “Babe, do you think the captain will let me go back to Earth as a steward?” “I think the captain knows a good spaceman when he sees one,” Babe replied earnestly. “I don’t think you have anything to worry about, Jim—not from now on.” _Teen-Age Super Science Stories_ _by_ Richard M. Elam, Jr. _Author of Teen-Age Science Fiction Stories_ _Illustrated by Frank E. Vaughn_ Following along the lines of his very successful Teen-Age Science Fiction Stories, this popular author has prepared a new book of exciting stories embodying the very latest theories in interplanetary communications and space travel. These thrilling tales recount the experiences of wide-awake, modern boys and girls who have the exceptional opportunity to venture into outer space. Such stories as “The First Man Into Space,” “The Peril From Outer Space,” and “Mystery Eyes Over Earth” will take you into a new world, where the exciting adventures are based on sound predictions from present scientific knowledge. Traveling in pressurized ships, dressed in special space suits, using oxygen tanks, the young travelers explore some of the heavenly bodies in super thrilling adventures requiring the utmost courage, fidelity and devotion to duty and to country. GROSSET & DUNLAP _Publishers_ New York 10, N. Y. _Teen-Age Science Fiction Stories_ _by_ Richard M. Elam, Jr. _Illustrated by Charles H. Geer_ The introduction by Captain Burr Leyson sets the pace for this exciting book of stories dealing with the newest theories of inter-planetary communication and the scientific advances that might make possible some of the adventures here described.