Space Crazy Comics: The Man Who Stole the Moon

Some of these stories are a little less worthy of talking about than others... at least, they are until one gets a little creative imagining real explanations for them.

This story from Outer Space #25 is rather dull in most respects, but has an event that is intended to surprise the reader:

Note that, while the events of this panel-the Moon being shrunken down to hand-held size and being displayed by a man who proudly proclaimed his purloinment of it before a club-actually occurred in the main body of the story (this is an introductory splash panel from the first page), the true chronicle of events within the story are quite different from how the self-alleged thief presented them.

(The club, by the way, is an adventuring and rare oddities club. The Moon-thief also apparently poached the last surviving unicorn, if his fellow club members are to be believed. No joke.)

No, instead, a couple of aliens show up and take him into their saucer. While there have been a lot of aliens that were pretty crazy described by people who believed they were real, these guys are human aliens who probably aren't entirely right in the head.

Why do I say this?

Because they reportedly don't like to "startle" Earth people, but then they pull this stunt.

My conclusion: These jerks who shrank the Moon (and admittedly later restored it) were drunk off their butts.

"Oh, those guys on the planet, they won't care (hic!) that the big shiny thing in the sky will vanish for two weeks! That won't startle 'em! Hee hee!"

So remember, kids-never drink and abduct.

-Signing off.