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Publisher: Fiction House

Title: Planet Comics
Issue: 1
Page Count: 68
Publish Date: January 1940
Volume: 1
Contributors: Editor: Malcolm Reiss (editor); Will Eisner [as William E. Eisner] (art director); S. M. Iger (feature editor)

Assigned Comics

Planet 1 Denver Copy
Owner: cheetah

1984
Views
9.4
CGC

Planet 1
Owner: cheetah

771
Views
4.0
CGC

Planet Comics 1
Owner: changerchanger

159
Views
5.5
CGC



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Story Title: The One-Eyed Monsters of Mars - cover
Features:Flint Baker
Pages:1
Pencils:Lou Fine
Inks:Lou Fine
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Flint Baker


Story Title: Read About This Amazing Free Offer - advertisement
Pages:1
Pencils:Leo Morey
Inks:Leo Morey
Letters:typeset


Story Title: The One-Eyed Monster Men from Mars - comic story
Features:The Planetary Adventures of Flint Baker
Pages:15
Pencils:Dick Briefer (signed)
Inks:Dick Briefer (signed)
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Fletcher "Flint" Baker (introduction, origin); Harry Parks (freed convict, introduction); Phil Godwin (freed convict, introduction); Cliff Grant (freed convict, introduction, death); Mimi Wilson (New York Globe reporter, introduction); King of Mars [aka the Ruler of Ru] (introduction); Princess Viga (the King's daughter, introduction); Sarko (villain, introduction, death); Sarko's monster horde (villains, many die)
Synopsis:Flint has completed the rocket ship begun by his father and is ready to take off for Mars, but first has three prison convicts freed to serve as his crew. They land on Mars and find the corpse of a former explorer, who left a letter warning anyone finding his note to stay away from the dark side of Mars.


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Auro Lord of Jupiter
Pages:6
Pencils:Malcolm Kildale
Inks:Malcolm Kildale
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Auro [Hardwich] (introduction, origin); Tara (pet saber-tooth tiger); Professor John Hardwich (Auro's father, introduction, death); Mrs. John Hardwich (Auro's mother, introduction, death); Martha Gale (an assistant pilot, introduiction); King of Neptune (villain, introduction)
Synopsis:After a rocket ship crash that kills his parents, Auro is raised by a saber-tooth tiger. He is approached by a young woman named Martha to help save her friends who have been taken as slaves by the fiendish ruler of Neptune.


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:The Red Comet
Pages:5
Pencils:Ken Jackson (signed)
Inks:Ken Jackson ?
Genre:fantasy; science fiction
Characters:The Red Comet (introduction); un-named police captain (introduction); The Munitions King [J.G.] (villain, introduction, death); Munition King's war-profiteers (villains, introduction for all, all die)
Synopsis:While the public is amazed and elated that no crimes have been committed for two weeks, the police feel that their jobs are less secure because of the crime busting activities of the Red Comet. His magical powers seem to draw him like a magnet to the criminal element, and he has rounded them up with amazing speed, taking each to a different uninhabited but inhabitable planet and dropping them off to fend for themselves.


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Captain Nelson Cole of the Solar Force
Pages:15
Pencils:Alex Blum [as Alex Boon] (signed)
Inks:Alex Blum [as Alex Boon] (signed)
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Captain Nelson Cole (introduction); Bud (Cole's sidekick, introduction); unnamed President of the Solar Congress; Zan (villain, dictator of Volcus, introduction); Zan's woman (villain, introduction); Zan's Army of robots (villains, introduction for all)
Synopsis:The loss of several Solar Ships forces the President of the Solar Congress to appoint Captain Cole to lead a force against the enemies from outer space. They are captured and the dictator, Zan, intends to turn them into dehumanized robots.


Story Title: The War Lords of the Moon - comic story
Features:Spurt Hammond, Planet Flyer
Pages:7
Pencils:Henry Kiefer
Inks:Henry Kiefer
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Spurt Hammond (introduction); The Lunerzons (villains, women warriors, introduction for all); The Mooniacs (villains, introduction for all)
Synopsis:Spurt and his companions must fend off the attacks of the Luzerons, who occupy the polar regions of the Moon, and who are in the business of robbing interplanetary transports.


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Buzz Crandall and the Space Patrol
Pages:4
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Buzz Crandall (introduction); Dr. Curan (scientist, introduction); Nancy Curan (Dr. Curan's daughter, introduction); The Sharkmen (villains, introduction, death)
Synopsis:Buzz and his crew must face the Sharkmen, semi-intelligent living under the murky waters of Neptune, who have captured Dr. Curan and other members of his Neptune expedition.


Story Title: The Man Who Stole a World! - comic story
Features:Quorak, Space Pirate
Pages:12
Pencils:Alvin Charles [as Albert Charles] (signed)
Inks:Alvin Charles [as Albert Charles] (signed)
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Quorak (villain, Earth scientist, introduction); Lt. Gary Blake (introduction); Dean (astronomer, introduction); Joan Perry (introduction, radio operator, only appearance); unnamed world president (introduction)
Synopsis:A former Earth scientist takes up residence on a far distant planetoid and threatens to rule the universe, destroying all traces of civilization. His first target is Pluto, which he attempts to pull from its orbit with his strange infra-red ray invention.


Story Title: [ no title ] - promo (ad from the publisher)
Pages:1
Pencils:Lou Fine; Will Eisner
Inks:Lou Fine
Letters:typeset
Genre:adventure; jungle


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


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