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Publisher: Fiction House

Title: Planet Comics
Issue: 4
Page Count: 68
Publish Date: April 1940
Volume: 1

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Story Title: Slave Planet; Space Islands of Destruction - cover
Features:Flint Baker
Pages:1
Letters:typeset
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Flint Baker


Story Title: [ no title ] - promo (ad from the publisher)
Features:Bull's-Eye Bannon
Pages:1
Letters:typeset
Genre:detective-mystery
Characters:Bull's-Eye Bannon


Story Title: Slave Planet - comic story
Features:Flint Baker
Pages:11
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Fletcher "Flint" Baker; Mimi Wilson; Parks (crew member); the Great Eye (villain, introduction, death?); the Great Ear (villain, introduction); the Great Mouth (villain, introduction); space monsters (villains, creatures, some die)
Synopsis:On their way back to Earth, Flint and Mimi are attacked by a space monster as they pass the planet Jupiter, and when others threaten,the crew decides to land on Jupiter. There they face the threat of the Great Eye, the Great Ear and the Great Mouth.


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Auro Lord of Jupiter
Pages:6
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Auro [also as Thogra]; Jano (Prince of Saturn, introduction); Thogra (villain, Jano's uncle, a Saturnian, introduction, death)
Synopsis:The people inhabiting Auro's planet gather to watch a strange space ship hurtling from space and landing in a lake. When Auro investigates, he discovers the ship contains a young Prince of Saturn who was shot into space by his madman uncle.


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:The Red Comet
Pages:5
Inks:? [shop]
Genre:science fiction
Characters:The Red Comet; unnamed Earth explorers
Synopsis:While cruising in outer space, the Comet spots an Earth ship heading directly toward Vegeto, the Planet of Deadly Plants. He decides to follow them down and saves them before the planet's vegetation destroys them.


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Captain Nelson Cole of the Solar Force
Pages:13
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Captain Nelson Cole; Felon (villain)
Synopsis:As Captain Cole is being recognized as guest of honor at the Third Centenary of the Solar Police Force, a death ray strikes and kills a number of dancers. Cole investigates the ray and discovers that his enemy, Felon, is behind it. Cole follows his foe to Earth, where Felon is offering his services to aggressor nations.


Story Title: Mist Men of Mercury - text story
Pages:2
Inks:? (spot illustrations)
Letters:typeset
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Kirk; Hoffer (scientist); the Mist Men
Synopsis:Kirk was spinning out of control through space after escaping from a concentration camp on Earth, being placed there by a mad dictator who was going to execute him for a crime he never committed. He lands on Mercury by chance and discovers the eerie Mist Men.


Story Title: Space Islands of Destruction - comic story
Features:Spurt Hammond, Planet Flyer
Pages:7
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Spurt Hammond; Janice Dale (introduction); Mercurian pirates (villains, introduction for all)
Synopsis:Spurt is sent to Mercury to battle the dreaded beaked men who wear detachable bat wings and have been attacking the commerce routes and taking hostages for ransom.


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Buzz Crandall of the Space Patrol
Pages:6
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Lieutenant Buzz Crandall; Doctor Curan [aka Curran]; Sandra Curan (the doctor's daughter); Dr. Zynnon (villain, introduction, death)
Synopsis:Dr. Curan brings desperate news from the Earth to Lt. Crandall that the Moon is going to explode due to the build-up of hydrogen gas at its core. Unfortunately for them, one of the passengers invited along for the trip, Dr. Zynnon, has an intense hatred for mankind and seeks to destroy them.


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Kenny Carr of the Martian Lancers
Pages:4
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Captain Kenny Carr (introduction); Dwight (Carr's service buddy); unnamed colonel; enemy soldiers (villains, half die)
Synopsis:The colonel and Dwight scheme to get Kenny to re-enlist. Unknown to them, their phony plot turns out to be real, and Carr re-ups to help repel the invaders.


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Gale Allen of the Women's Space Battalion
Pages:4
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Gale Allen and the Women's Space Battalion (introduction for all); Captain Jack North (Universal Space Patrol member, introduction); The Plutonians (villains, introduction for all, some die)
Synopsis:North receives an urgent SOS from a scouting party, stating that they have been captured by pirates from Pluto. North asks the commandant for help and Gale Allen and her Women's Space Battalion arrive to help out, much to his disdain.


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Space Facts
Pages:0.75
Genre:non-fiction; math & science


Story Title: Case 2....File-A....Clue 4 - comic story
Features:The Case of the Frightened Killer
Pages:0.25
Genre:detective-mystery
Characters:Bull's-Eye Bannon; Nora Earl (Dean's daughter-in-law); Clarence Dean (Earl's younger son); Miss Kane (a nurse)


Story Title: The Strongest Man in the Universe - comic story
Features:Jim Giant, the Strongest Man in the Universe
Pages:5
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Jim Giant (introduction); an unnamed dictator to be (villain, introduction)
Synopsis:Giant must face fierce men from the North Pole who travel in strange sleds that can reach speeds of 100 mph and are armed with ray guns.


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


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


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