Writer: Otto Binder

Penciller: Gil Kane

Inker: Bernard Sachs

Synopsis: Space Cabby is cruising around Jupiter when suddenly his engine cuts out. He lands on a large meteor marked with an "S" in order to repair it, and when he's finished, he notices what appear to be diamonds floating nearby. He retrieves some of the diamonds, but while he's on one of his trips to gather some, the meteor he's on is hit by another meteor and cracks into two, sending his cab (with the diamonds) flying away. He gets another cab back to Earth and decides to join the Meteor Sweepers, an outfit that patrols the spaceways for dangerous meteors, in order to make money and hopefully find his cab. Space Cabby excels as a meteor sweeper, solving problems like how to eliminate a firey meteor by directing an ice meteor toward it, eliminating an invisible meteor by shooting paint into space in order to make it visible, and eliminating an anti-gravity meteor that repels all objects by bombing it with neutrinos, which are weightless. This last meteor turns out to have been half of the "S" meteor on which he had landed and repaired his cab, and when the repellent effect is eliminated by the neutrinos, it becomes magnetically attracted to its other half, allowing Space Cabby to hitch a ride on it back to his cab. He gets in it and drives it to Earth, where he discovers that the "diamonds" had really been super-hard ice, but he is consoled for his loss of the expected fortune by receiving an award for meritorious meteor-sweeping service.

Notes: Although the Meteor Sweepers appear to operate in space, they are actually working within an atmosphere of some sort, since they had encountered a meteor that was on fire (in space, there can't be fire, since there's no oxygen) and they were able to spray paint (which would have frozen into tiny particles in space).

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