The Astral Avenger becomes entangled in a sinister case involving a mysterious robed figure that uses his "Living Death" to create an army of mindless robotic slaves.; The Man of the Hour faces a crazed genius, who has invented an ultra-sensory ray to create midget beings of a special composition in the 5th Dimension (having a cloud-like spidery texture), that he uses to rob. Hourman discovers they can only be seen by the use of infra-red glasses.; Dian has taken up art as a hobby, but when she visits an art shop to get more paint, she is given a box of paint that turns one of her fingers invisible!