Space hero Duck Dodgers, along with Eager Young Space Cadet Porky, travel to Planet X in search of Illudium Phosdex, the shaving cream atom. Unfortunately, Commander X-2 arrives in his "Martian Maggot" spaceship with his own designs on the place.

The Coyote chases the Road Runner through a maze of mineshafts, with their positions made visible only by the lamps on their helmets.