Steiger gives us a slim psychic cross section featuring heavyweights such as Nostradamus, Edgar Cayce, and Jeane Dixon, alongside other prophets lost to the years. There's multiple claims that California will fall into the sea, as well as vague threats of upcoming "hard times" and strife which must have seemed rather obvious in 1967. English psychic John Pendragon (born Lewis Thomas Haynes Ackermann) delivers some stilted, scattershot predictions. He seems somewhat confused when he claims that Japan will surprisingly ally with the USA in SE Asia despite "former enmity," as if it hadn't been 22 years since the end of WWII! Dying in 1970, Pendragon lived just long enough to see Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong survive their moonshot, against another of his predictions.
A quick chapter on Helena Blavatksy foreshadows Steiger's partner Warren Smith and his heavy cut and paste reliance on her in his later Zebra volumes.
Popular Library, 1967
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