Vault of Evil #22

In the year 2100, a desperate criminal steals a spaceship, racing to claim the legendary treasure of Planetoid 12 before anyone else. What he finds instead is a desolate wasteland—just water and mud—leading to a shocking discovery that changes everything.

In "Lost!", a man released after two decades in prison returns to a forgotten cave, drawn by the memory of stolen treasure—and a past he can’t escape. There, he finds a young man and his parents, lost for years, and the truth of what happened in the dark may be more than he bargained for.

In "For the Birds!", Professor Gorey’s interplanetary bird trade takes a disastrous turn when he stumbles upon a colossal avian on a distant world—only to discover the creature sees his spaceship as its long-lost egg, with devastating consequences.

In the grim silence of a locked meat locker, a man trapped by his own scheme faces a slow, desperate hunger. Once a butcher who sought to ruin his ex-partner’s business, he now waits—alone, starving, and haunted by the very meat he poisoned. When his body is discovered, the locker’s owner is left bewildered: why didn’t he eat the tainted meat, when it was already declared unfit and replaced?