Writer: Gardner Fox

Penciller: Sid Greene

Inker: Sid Greene

Synopsis: The Star Rovers head to Earth to enlist in the armed forces for Earth's new war, against the planet Ankol. As their ships leave hyperspace to enter real space near Earth, they look outside their ship and don't see Earth there. As they think about the matter, each one becomes convinced that he or she is responsible for Earth's apparent disapearance. Homer mentions that he used a special camera, which has some dimensional-travel features, to capture the picture of a banibear. He guesses that when his dimension-travelling camera interacted with Earth's magnetic fielf it shifted Earth into a different dimension. Karel insists she can prove it was her fault, and tells them of how she had been hunting a special kind of bird that can fly in multiple dimensions. When she managed to wing one, it let out tremendous energy, knocking her unconscious and bathing her in the bird's multi-dimensional radiation, which she theorizes, shifted Earth into another dimension when she entered the atmosphere. Then Rick chimes in, explaining that he thinks it's his fault, since he was on a light-gravity planet with light shining up from the ground where he participated in a sport that involved jumping from a high platform and hitting as many light-beams as possible with a wand, which would collect their energy. One of the beams he had hit made his rod tingle with an odd energy, and he had the rod with him as a trophy when he returned to Earth. Suddenly, all three realize that there were no visible stars in the sky, meaning that Earth didn't vanish into another dimension, but rather, they did. Upon realizing this, they soon encounter another spaceship, from Ankol, which intends to attack Earth. The three of them have no weapons, but figure out how to stop the Ankolian ship with objects at hand, Homer's inter-dimensional camera, the bird which Karel shot, which she had captured and taken aboard her ship, and Rick's rod with solar and dimensional energy. Rick fires his rod toward the ship, and Karel fires the bird, which is bound to a magnet, at the ship. Karel then launches herself between the two and shoots the bird from such an angle that the bird discharges its energy toward the rod, which absorbs its energy and discharges it back at the bird and the enemy ship, which causes the bird to discharge even more energy, destroying the ship. Rick and Karel then make their way to Homer's ship, where he has figured out how to use the dimension-traveling properties of his camera to get them back to Earth. When they reach Earth, they learn that they had been thrown into that other dimension because the Earth government erected a force-field around the planet that would send any approaching object into that other dimension. They also learn that Ankolian spies found out about this and the Ankolians had devised a weapon to fire a bomb at Earth from a different dimension, and if the Star Rovers hadn't destroyed the Ankolian ship, it would have destroyed Earth. Later, the Star Rovers receive word that the Ankolians, having expended all their resources on the attempted attack that they had foiled, surrendered, and they celebrate the fact that although they lost their mementoes of their most recent adventures, the Earth itself is something of a memento of those adventures.

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