Roger Krass has been drawing underground comics for a living but hating it all the while. A mysterious man shows up with an offer that will finally recognize his true talent, but it turns out there's a catch.
A thief comes into possession of an invisibility cloak and goes on a looting spree. Just as he is about to leave his run-down tenement, his landlady enters the room with the police, and he successfully uses the cloak to disguise his presence from them. After they leave the room, they lock up the entrance to the building and fumigate it.
An astronaut is sent into orbit in a tiny sphere without communication. He sees a monster trying to claw its way in and panics, signalling ground control to bring him back. They think that it was a hallucination, but they find a broken claw on the spacecraft.