Race for the Moon #2
In "Island in the Sky," Bart Wallace’s routine sightseeing in Camerillo, Mexico, takes a surreal turn when a mysterious blue light snatches his companion Pedro—only for both to be dropped when a passing USAF plane disrupts the phenomenon. Drawn back to the site by an unshakable curiosity, Wallace tracks the light again, firing at it with a rifle, only to see Camerillo ignite beneath its passage. The truth behind the spectacle remains elusive: the light is no craft, but something far stranger—a space animal that vanishes into the sky, leaving Wallace alone in a town forever changed. Ernest Schroeder’s dynamic art brings the story’s eerie wonder to life, while Jack Kirby and Joe Simon’s cover pencils, rendered in Al Williamson and Joe Simon’s inks, capture the moment of cosmic intrusion with striking intensity.
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Bart Wallace is sightseeing in Camerillo, Mexico. He mocks Pedro who talks about strange happenings. Suddenly Pedro is pulled into the air by a blue light, Wallace grabs hold and both are dropped when a USAF plane spooks their captor. Wallace thinks it strange that a plane could scare an interplanetary craft. Wallace searches for weeks for the strange light and when he eventually does see it shoots it with a rifle. The light moves over Camerillo which catches fire. It's not a craft but a space animal and flies away. Wallace remains searching for evidence, the only man left in Camerillo.
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