Anything you can do...

When an extraordinary alien creature becomes Earth's most feared master criminal, it becomes necessary to develop a super-human to do it battle. That the Nipe had embarked on its incredible career of robbery and murder had been, more or less, an accident. After all, it was a civilized being of high intelligence, intent only on establishing contact with the Earth's Real People. Those pitiful creatures with only two eyes and four limbs, with their slow, slow reflexes and their savage weapons, couldn't be the ruling life-form! Why, they didn't even keep the Customs . . . and any civilized species must surely adhere to ritual. But why, then, had the Nipe been unable to find the Real People? Obviously, they had some reason to remain hidden, and that left the Nipe but one alternative — to build a communicator with which it could reach its home. It would take time, and a great deal of specialized equipment, to build the transmitter. And in the course of collecting the necessary materials, the Nipe occasionally had no alternative but to kill. Even though the humans weren't Real People, the Nipe at least showed them the respect of devouring their remains—after all, the Real People might be