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Publisher: Fiction House

Title: Planet Comics
Issue: 5
Page Count: 68
Publish Date: May 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: none - cover
Features:Flint Baker
Pages:1
Pencils:Will Eisner
Inks:Will Eisner
Genre:science fiction


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


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Captain Nelson Cole
Pages:13
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Morgo (villain, introduction, death); Zirgo (villain, introduction, death); The president of Earth (introduction); Nelson Cole


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Gale Allen of the Girls' Patrol
Pages:4
Pencils:Bob Powell (signed)
Inks:Bob Powell (signed)
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Gale Allen; Jack North (guest-star); Prince Blaga Daru (villain, introduction)


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Fero, Planet Detective
Pages:5
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Fero (introduction); A werewolf from Pluto (villain, introduction, death); vampire from Pluto (villain, introduction, death); Dr. John Wade (introduction); Phyllis Wade (his daughter, introduction)


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Auro, Lord of Jupiter
Pages:5.75
Pencils:Bob Powell; ?
Inks:Bob Powell ?; ?
Genre:science fiction
Characters:June (introduction); other scientists (introduction); Auro


Story Title: Case 3: File 1: Clue 4 - comic story
Features:Strange Case of Ezra Ark:
Pages:0.25
Pencils:Bob Powell
Inks:Bob Powell
Genre:detective-mystery
Characters:Bull's-Eye Bannon; Ezra Ark


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:The Red Comet
Pages:5
Pencils:Don Rico
Inks:Don Rico
Genre:science fiction
Characters:The Red Comet; J. G. (villain, introduction, death); other warmongers (villains, introduction for all, all die)
Synopsis:Red Comet exiles all criminals from Earth


Story Title: Slave of the Lizard-Men - text story
Pages:2
Letters:typeset
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Dexter Ames; Dr. Phillips; Gunner Hatch; lizard-men; unnamed giant humanoid


Story Title: The Doomed Universe - comic story
Features:Space Admiral Curry
Pages:8
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Space Admiral Curry (introduction); the Universal President (introduction); Rocko (villain, introduction, death)


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Spurt Hammond
Pages:7
Pencils:Henry Kiefer
Inks:Henry Kiefer
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Morono [king of Pluto] (villain, introduction); King Satius (introduction); his daughter (introduction); Spurt Hammond; Plutonians


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Buzz Crandall of the Space Patrol
Pages:6
Genre:science fiction
Characters:The flower people of an asteroid (villains, introduction, death); Headless men of the asteroid (introduction); Buzz Crandall; Sandra Curan


Story Title: Adventures on a New World - comic story
Features:Flint Baker
Pages:7
Pencils:Arthur Peddy
Inks:Arthur Peddy
Genre:science fiction
Characters:The Grangonians (villains); Mimi Wilson (guest-star); Flint Baker


Story Title: [ no title ] - cartoon
Features:Planet Puns
Pages:1
Genre:humor
Characters:Mr. Goldbucks


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