Basil's Trip To The Moon

Basil Wolverton had his own vision of the world as shown in his comics, most notably in Stanley Morse's Weird Tales Of The Future back in the early days of the Silver Age. You literally never knew where you were going to end up with one of Basil's stories, even though you have a decent enough idea with the 4-page tale titled The Man From The Moon. Starting out in America just after the Civil War, Pete Warren is abducted by a ship of green moon men. The entire crew die from exposure to something on the trip, leaving this poor guy having to walk around the Moon with wearing a Darth Vader beathing device. Over the decades, Pete had most of his organic parts replaced with cybernetics so that he eventually gives off the appearance of a mechanical resident among the rest of the moon men. The Lunarites send Pete in his fully robotic body back to Earth a century after he first left, along with two other moon folk both of whom are killed by space radiation along the way. Pete tours his old homeworld in the flying saucer to find nothing but ruins leaving behind a race of mutants. Robo-Pete is sturdy enough to slay the attacking human survivors giving him no choice but to head back to the Moon and live out the rest of his probably eternal life as a mechanical freak among green goons. What lead mankind to its downfall in this story is never revealed, but the main buzzkill isn't the mystery of humanity's extinction instead the fact this poor clockwork yutz just kept hitting one stroke of bad luck after the other on not just one but two different worlds.