Race for the Moon #5

In "I Captured the Abominable Snowman!", a greedy man's relentless pursuit of fame and fortune leads him deep into the Himalayas, where he tricks a mysterious lama into revealing the secret of the legendary creature. What he finds is a shocking truth: the Abominable Snowman is no beast, but a man cursed to his monstrous form—until someone else takes his place. As the snowman reclaims his humanity, the man's fate begins to shift in ways he never imagined.

In "The Little Green Man," a man's life takes a bizarre turn when a jade Buddha he inherits begins to exert a strange influence over him—first subtly, then more intensely, until his very appearance starts to mirror the statue’s. His wife, determined to save him, must confront the object’s growing power before it’s too late.

In "Morgan's Mad Machine!", two con artists fall for a scammer peddling a miraculous gold-making device—only to find themselves unexpectedly hurled into their own past, back to the very moment they were sentenced to prison. The twist of fate leaves them trapped in a loop they never saw coming, facing the consequences of their own crimes in real time.

In "I Am Robot," a scientist builds a machine so advanced it thinks and feels like a human, entrusting it with the care of his young son. When the robot is damaged protecting the boy from alien abductors, the father’s wife grows suspicious—and the scientist, torn between trust and fear, abandons his life’s work.

In "The Doctor Wears A Mask," a team of sociologists arrives in a seemingly perfect town where harmony reigns—until they uncover the unsettling truth behind its peace. The townspeople’s flawless behavior stems from a collective act of persecution, targeting a stranger whose mirror-faced alien nature became the town’s shared secret.

In "I Discovered the Secret of the Flying Saucers!", a curious man stumbles upon a startling truth: the famed flying saucers aren't spacecraft at all, but living alien beings that traverse the cosmos on their own. Drawn to Earth by mysterious forces, these entities are often stranded by the planet's radiation and must flee as quickly as they arrive.

In "The Ghost Came C.O.D.", a con artist finds a bizarrely effective scam: sending bills to the recently deceased, banking on grieving widows paying to avoid complications. But when one of his victims returns—not as a ghost, but as a Martian inhabiting a human form—the scheme takes a chilling turn. The Martian’s quiet arrival at the fraudster’s shop promises a reckoning that’s as sudden as it is inevitable.

In "The Replacement!", a desperate criminal steals a dying man’s jacket and discovers a mysterious airline ticket inside. When he tries to use it to flee the police, he boards a plane that takes off with no crew and no other passengers—only silence and dread. As panic sets in, he realizes too late he’s aboard a vessel far beyond the realm of the living. The story ends with the criminal’s body found in a field, and the man whose ticket he stole suddenly healed, as if fate had been rerouted by a single, stolen ticket.

In "I Am the Last Man on Earth!", a quiet, sun-drenched Earth stands empty except for Adam and Eve, the only two who chose to stay behind when humanity fled to a distant planet promising five times longer life. Left alone with the echoes of a vanished world, they must rebuild not just a civilization, but the meaning of home.

In "The Voice of Fido!", a ventriloquist relies on his dog to perform his act—until a sudden fire forces the dog to speak, guiding people to safety. Though the man takes credit, he insists he didn’t speak, leaving the dog’s true voice a mystery.

In "City of Giants," a man's reckless experiment with a size-altering gas unleashes chaos when it transforms the entire town into towering figures. As the streets fill with colossal citizens, he takes advantage to steal from the stunned populace—until his own plan unravels. With oxygen dwindling and his mask removed, he’s trapped in the subway, caught in the consequences of his own invention.

In "The Room with Two Billion Cards!", a down-on-his-luck actor stumbles upon a mysterious chamber where every person’s life role is determined by a vast collection of cards. When he pleads to change his fate, the room’s enigmatic voice denies him—then swiftly reassigns him to a new role, one far from the spotlight.