Lion #49

This anthology issue contains "Captain Condor: Space-Man of the Unknown Moon," in which the outlaw space captain and his companion Pete are captured by moon-men and forced to wear apparatus allowing them to understand and communicate in the alien's native language. A second story features a Roman chariot race in which the slave Cardoc competes for his freedom while Platus, a spy for the enemy, watches from among the gladiators. Additional content includes "Jingo Jones and His Invisibiliser," a school-based adventure story by Tom Stirling about a boy who acquires an invisibility device from Professor Hamm and uses it to help catch a criminal, and a "World-Wide Quiz" testing readers' knowledge on topics ranging from rubber to geography.