It began in a field, mostly overgrown with weeds. I think it was specifically the field that was between my house and the elementary school I attended in Merced. In this field was a house belonging to the father of the Younger Dan (yes, there is actually a Younger Dan, too). The house was shaped like a baseball diamond, with bedrooms at the three outside bases, a porch at home plate with an antennae on the roof right above it, and living room/kitchen space in the infield.
We were there for some reason. Then, I was aware that my friend Ed was in Oregon, and that my mom was writing letters (to other friends of the family) on paper towels and toilet tissue.
Then a grand and epic space adventure began. It was chock full of aliens. The three main alien races, with whom I adventured, were:
Black, glossy, vaguely rubbery beings shaped very much like the Merk from the comic book Nexus. However, they did not have legs; they merely hovered, and the lower part of their body just rounded off. They were sexless, without faces, and their voices vibrated oddly. There were five of them flying about.Big bulky types, much like the title character from the comic book Concrete, again without much in the way of facial features.
Blobby Moebius-ring creatures which hovered and spun around and flexed as they floated.
There was also another human, a consulting sorceress. She and I and the aliens had to locate a kidnap victim who was going to be executed. Our spaceship must have been huge; in the center was a chamber that stretched as far as the eye could see, with a giant hovering orb in it, infinitely high above a floor that had to have been there, somewhere. Solid rings encircled it at several levels; the big brick guy jumped from ring to ring a lot. After months of no success, we returned to Earth, to the baseball-diamond house. Its antennae had grown substantially. Also, it was surrounded by cabins and had a nearby highway.