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Publisher: Fiction House

Title: Planet Comics
Issue: 3
Page Count: 68
Publish Date: March 1940
Volume: 1
Contributors: Editor: Malcolm Reiss (editor); Will Eisner [as William E. Eisner] (art director); S. M. Iger (feature editor)

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Story Title: The Weird Void of Outer Space - cover
Features:The Planetary Adventures of Flint Baker on Pluto
Pages:1
Pencils:Will Eisner
Inks:Will Eisner
Letters:typeset
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Flint Baker


Story Title: Calling All Manhunters! Can You Solve a Crime? - promo (ad from the publisher)
Features:Bull's-Eye Bannon
Pages:1
Letters:?; mostly typeset
Genre:detective-mystery
Characters:Bull's-Eye Bannon


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:The Planetary Adventures of Flint Baker on Pluto
Pages:13
Pencils:Bob Powell ?
Inks:? [shop]
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Fletcher "Flint" Baker; Mimi Wilson; Plutonian King (villain, introduction); The Plutonians (villains, introduction for all)
Synopsis:Instead of returning to Earth, Mimi sets the controls to Pluto, where they arrive out of fuel. Immediately, Flint is attacked by weird half-man, half-amphibian creatures and captured.


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Pages:12
Inks:shop
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Amazona (introduction, origin); Blake Manners (newspaperman, explorer, introduction, only appearance); Hennigan (Blake's newspaper Editor, introduction); unnamed cab driver (introduction); gang of jewel robbers (villains, introduction for all, most die)
Synopsis:Amazona and her people, the last survivors of a super race that perished during the last ice age, live in the far north reaches of the Arctic. They are visited by Blake, the only survivor of an exploratory expedition. Wanting to return to America, a land Amazona know nothing about, Blake finds himself accompanied on the trip by Amazona, who is bored with her true home.


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:The Red Comet
Pages:5
Pencils:Ken Jackson ?; Alex Blum ?
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Red Comet; Golo (villain, ruler of the giants, introduction); the Giants (villains, introduction for all, many die)
Synopsis:While crusing the universe, Red Comet gets a strange message from a ruler on Jupiter, who challenges the entire solar system to battle with his forces.


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Spurt Hammond, Planet-Flyer
Pages:7
Pencils:Henry Kiefer
Inks:Henry Kiefer
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Spurt Hammond; Princess Zilla (introduction); Radgio (villain, Zilla's Prime Minister, introduction, death); Radgio's Councilmen (villains, introduction for all); Radgio's monsters (villains, introduction for all, some die)
Synopsis:While cruising near Mercury, Spurt's astragraph picks up the images of a young girl being roughly seized by brutal captors, and he heads to the planet to investigate. He saves Princess Zilla and learns that her prime minister is turning people into monsters, seeking to conquer the world.


Story Title: The Lizard-Men of Alpha Astra - text story
Pages:2
Pencils:? (spot illustrations)
Inks:? (spot illustrations)
Letters:typeset
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Captain Dexter Ames; Doctor Phillips; Cara Phillips (the doctor's daughter); Sept Morgan (ship's Engineer); Gunner Hatch (crew member); The Lizard Men (villains, many die)
Synopsis:Ames and Phillips visit a mystery planet and come face to face with rodent-faced Lizard Men!


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Buzz Crandall of the Space Patrol
Pages:5
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Lieutenant Buzz Crandall; Sabdra Coran; Moon Bats (villains); Lunar Land Squid (villain, death)
Synopsis:Sandra and Buzz report to Post 82 on the Moon and discover that all communication with Post 83 has been cut off, so the pair go and investigate.


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Captain Nelson Cole of the Solar Force
Pages:12.75
Pencils:Leonard Frank
Inks:Leonard Frank
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Captain Nelson Cole; unnamed Chief of the Solar Force; Felon (villain, space pirate leader, introduction, death?); space pirates (villains, introduction for all, many die)
Synopsis:The Chief of the Solar Force puts Captain Cole in charge of finding the space pirates that are attacking defenseless space transports.


Story Title: The Case of the Diamond Death: Case 1: File-A: Clue No. 4 - comic story
Features:Bull's-Eye Bannon
Pages:0.25
Pencils:Bob Powell
Inks:Bob Powell
Genre:detective-mystery
Characters:Bulls-Eye Bannon; Tom Peerce (mention only, death); Bonse (villain); two unnamed criminals (villains)
Synopsis:Bannon captures the last suspect in the murder of Tom Peerce.


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Auro Lord of Jupiter
Pages:6
Pencils:Louis Golden [as R. L. Golden] (signed)
Inks:Louis Golden [as R. L. Golden] (signed)
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Auro (King of Jupiter); Auro's unnamed guard; the Dragon Man (villain, introduction, death)
Synopsis:A strange character approaches Auro's throne and asks him if he intends to kill a dragon responsible for the deaths of many of Auro's people. Soon Auro learns that this man, called the Dragon Man, is, in fact, the dragon.


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Mysteries of the Universe
Pages:0.5
Genre:non-fiction; math & science


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Pages:0.05
Pencils:?; photo ?
Inks:?; photo ?
Letters:typeset


Story Title: [ no title ] - promo (ad from the publisher)
Pages:1
Pencils:various
Inks:various
Letters:typeset


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Pages:1
Pencils:?; ? (photos)
Inks:?; ? (photos)
Letters:typeset


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