Story
Featuring
Star Rovers
Storyline
Three famed adventurers compete for a $10,000 prize to capture the one-and-only loborilla on a distant planet. Each one captures the unique creature (they think) and claims the prize. But their varied accounts conflict, and soon all three are surprised about who really caught the beast!
Story Notes
1) Pencil and inks credits, and page count confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. 2) Sid Greene's usual depiction of Julius Schwartz as a character occurs twice here, on page two panel five and page seven panel five. 3) This story's narrative conceit is similar to that of Akira Kurosawa's 1950 film Rashomon, in which the same incident (in this case, the capture of the Loborilla) is recounted by four different characters (including the Loborilla) as well as four different perspectives. Ingeniously, writer Gardner Fox also makes all four accounts internally consistent. 4) This is the first "Star Rovers" story, although their group name "Star Rovers" does not appear. 5) The Rovers are, oddly, not a team, because, in every story, all three are in competition for some prize or goal. 6) The Rovers continued in Mystery in Space and later switched to Strange Adventures.