John Hart

The question, "Are we alone in the cosmos?" has been answered. We are not alone. Geologist-paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ, stated, as early as the mid-1920s, that intelligent life likely exists elsewhere and distinguished scientists of today, including Harvard biologist, E. O. Wilson; Cambridge cosmologist, Stephen Hawking; astrophysicist and noted UAP researcher, Jacques Vallee; astronomer, Allen Hynek; and many others concur. The...

The increasing awareness of environmental issues as ultimately moral issues has led to the intersection of religion and environment. Sacramental Commons presents a unique way of looking at this topic by relating the Christian word 'sacrament' (signs of divine presence) to the term 'commons' (shared place and shared goods, among people and between people and the natural world), suggesting that local natural settings and local communities can be a source...

The heroic trio escape when the door to the trapped room is blown open by the force of the explosion. Bt triangulating the cosmic rays, Jack determines the the experiments are taking place thousands of miles away. DEducing that Hardy will be taken there, Jack, Uncle Jim, billy and Betty take off in a jet-propelled airplane. When Hardy lands on Point X, he meets Professor Zorn (Wheeler Oakman) and is addressed by an unseen "ruler" who tells him that...

Jack and Betty are saved from the fiery pit by Umala (Russ Vincent), a native who now realizes that his enemies are the white men working for Grood. The latter orders his henchmen to shoot Jack and his friends on sight. Blair and his fellow henchmen combined with Princess Alura natives maneuver the adventurers toward a dangerous rope-bridge spanning a chasm. Anxious to reach Umala's village and safety, Jack and his friends start across the rickety...

Jack, unharmed by the fall, escapes his opponent, commandeers Grood's truck and rescues Uncle Jim and Billy. They cannot carry off the Beam Gun, but take the activator tube, an important part of the weapon. Pierce starts out for the underground laboratory to find a substitute for the activator. Jack and Uncle Jim also head there determined to smash Grood's diabolical scheme to dominate the world. The two parties meet and fight. A door to the laboratory...

Jack parachutes to safety as the Areoglobe explodes, killing Zorn and other Grood henchmen and destroying the master death machine. REgaining consciousness, Vic Hardy demands that Grood sign a full confession of his guilt. Jack, Uncle Jim, Billy, and Betty enter the secret laboratory just as Grood overpowers Hardy. Grood escapes to a secret airfield where a plane is waiting. But Jack is right behind him. In the fight between Jack and Grood, the arch...

As the aeroglobe settles in its berth, Jack and the Fairfields flatten themselves against the walls of the pit and escape death. Princess Alura, believing that Xalta is on the side of Jack and his friends because of their miraculous escapes, urges them to leave the island. Jack insists on rescuing Vic Hardy first. Meanwhile, Pierce arrives with additional scientific equipment for the completion of the Cosmic Bean Annihilator (he's in with Grood)....

The beam is deflected when Jack and Billy attack and overpower the henchmen operating the Annihilator. Pierce and his men, now opposed to Grood, wrest the gun away from Jack, but they cannot operate the Annihilator gun without solarium, an important element needed for its operation. Grood and his henchmen proceed to Pierce's mill headquarters. Jack, Billy and Uncle Jim have gone there to obtain ammunition. They are not discovered. Grood's henchmen...

Jack and his friends land on a rocky ledge and make their way to the ground below. Meanwhile, Grood plans a fantastic demonstration to impress the natives. An aeroglobe, able to go far beyond the earth's atmosphere, is sent aloft. From their hiding place, Jack, Betty, Uncle Jim, and Billy realize a great scientific experiment is in progress. They make their way into the Fire Pit, the berth of the aeroglobe. The spaceship descends into the pit with...

It's been ten years since the events that changed Johnny Merrimon's life and rocked his hometown to the core. Since then, Johnny has fought to maintain his privacy, but books have been written of his exploits; he has fans, groupies. Living alone in the wilderness beyond town, Johnny's only connection to normal life is his old friend, Jack. They're not boys anymore, but the bonds remain. What they shared. What they lost.