Writer: Otto Binder

Penciller: Gil Kane

Inker: Bernard Sachs

Synopsis: On Mars, Space Cabby is hailed by three people simultaneously, and wishes he were triplets so he could take all of them and make more money. The passenger he does take turns out to be one Professor Parker, a scientist who offers to fulfil that wish through a carbon-copy ray he invented. Space Cabby takes him up on the offer, and the professor creates two duplicates of Space Cabby and his cab. Space Cabby names his duplicates Ultra and Infra and the three of them go to find business. Soon, Space Cabby finds himself competing with his duplicates for fares. He solves this problem by dividing up the solar system into three zones so they don't compete with one another, but all is still not well. His duplicates earn more than him, and Ultra starts taking his girlfriend out, leading her to believe he's the original. Space Cabby gets revenge by making himself a non-paying custome in Ultra's cab for a while, but after he gets out, he receives a nasty shock, as Ultra and his cab vanish. Space Cabby tells Professor Parker, who concludes that the duplicates must be unstable, and Space Cabby starts trying to locate Infra, who he's worried will vanish while driving passengers through space. He's unable to raise Infra on the radio and fears the worst, but after an extensive search, he finds that Infra and his cab had been hijacked by crooks, who prevented him from responding and who had him tied up in their asteroid hideout. Space Cabby lands and frees Infra, but while they're fighting the crooks, Infra disappears. Space Cabby thinks fast to avoid being overpowered by the two crooks and convinces them that he's a magician by "making" Infra's cab disappear, and then by leading them to believe their ray guns vanished. Space Cabby then gets the ray guns from their true location, which he had diverted their attention from with the disappearances, and forces them at gunpoint to get into his cab, in which he'd bring them to the Interplanetary Police. Later, Space Cabby is hailed by a trio of triplets, but he passes them by, having enough of such things.

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