Desua

Alan Moore is sent to the moon piloting an atomic powered space ship designed by Professor Manheim. This trip marks mankind’s first foray into space travel. Amazed at the high rate of speed, Alan is surprised to come across another space ship. The craft sends a beam at Alan’s ship, capturing it in a “magnetic pull”. Once aboard the other craft, Moore is addressed by the Martian space pirate Jana, who was fleeing the Mars-Venus Patrol. The pirate has made captives of Professor Fenrir and the professor’s daughter, Desua. Jana’s craft has run out of fuel, and he intends to use Alan’s ship to refuel the atomic engines. Alan resists, but is overcome by superior numbers. Jana has Alan set adrift to die in space. Desua uses a magnetic beam light to capture Alan and bring him along behind Jana’s vessel to the Moon. Landing on the moon, Alan finds that the space pirates, Professor Fenrir, and Desua, and rushes the pirates, but is knocked out and taken by Jana before the High One, the ruler of the Moon Men. Jana says the group are invaders, but Professor Fenrir convinces the High One by showing the ruler Jana’s true thoughts with a device called a “thought-stealer”. The High One and his lunar men attack Jana’s pirates, disarming them. The High One decrees Alan Moore and Jana will battle, a match Alan Moore wins easily with help from the Moon’s lesser gravity. The pirates are taken prisoner. Alan Moore returns to Earth and the waiting Professor Manheim in Jana’s vessel. He takes Desua and Fenrir with him to show them Earth, promising to return them to their own planet afterward.