West finds Willow Springs looted and its citizens completely immobile---victims of a mysterious paralysis.

Maharajah Singh kidnaps West for very unprincely reasons: West is to tutor Singh's assassin sons in the ways of Western combat.

Dr. Loveless takes a giant step in his plan to rule a world of "little people" --- by reducing West to a six-inch miniature.

A mad scientist has invented a robot that looks exactly like West.

Time is running out for Judge M'Guigan, who is threatened by a bomb-throwing clockmaker.