Writer: Otto Binder

Penciller: Bernard Sachs

Inker: Bernard Sachs

Synopsis: Space Cabby is hailed by a jewel tycoon who's in a hurry, and manages to get him to his meeting on time. As a tip, the tycoon later give Space Cabby a limousine with gold trimmings. Space Cabby is ecstatic and sells his cab in order to make his living carrying what he expects to be high-tipping passengers in luxury. However, he soon discovers that passengers assume he's rich enough to not need a tip, and even pass him over for their rides altogether to give the business to a needier-looking cabby. Meanwhile, the limo costs him more than his old cab did in parking, gas and extra mileage he's forced to travel when the large limo won't fit through small tunnels. He attempts to get his old cab back, but it's already been sold. He soon discovers, though, that it had been acquired by crooks, who use the motor that Space Cabby had souped up himself in order to get away quickly. Space Cabby chases them in the limo, but they outmaneuver him. Space Cabby decides to try and attract the crooks' attention by using the limo as bait, and the crooks bite, but prevent him from calling the Interplanetary Police. Space Cabby then uses the limo's meteor deflector to cause a large magnetic meteor to stick to the cab, resulting in the limo's being hit by other meteors. Space Cabby abandons the limo and grabs onto the meteor attached to the passing cab. The crooks notice this and go to get him off, but before they can, the police catch them, drawn to the cab by an SOS that Space Cabby had drawn on the meteor with a lipstick that had been one of the luxuries that the limo contained. Later, Space Cabby happily drives his old cab once again.

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