Multi-millionaire owner of a string of hobby shops, and the world’s leading expert on hobbies of all sorts, Van Crawford was out for a walk one day when he saw a flying saucer crash. Going to its aid, he discovered the saucer was really a shape-shifting alien. To reward Van Crawford for helping him, the alien gave him a drink that Crawford thought tasted like a chocolate milkshake, it however was really the substance the race the alien belonged to used to turn into flying saucers.