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Planet Comics (1940 Fiction House) comic books 1953

  • Issue #69
    Planet Comics (1940 Fiction House) 69
    • 1" spine split from bottom of comic. Heavy corner chew. Cover oxidation.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
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    Cover by Maurice Whitman. Edited by J. F. Byrne. Stories and art by Joe Doolin, Rudy Palais, Saul Rosen, and Art Saaf. The first true science fiction comic, Planet Comics featured classic space opera with square-jawed heroes, rockets, rayguns and bug-eyed aliens of every stripe. Reprints most of issue #20: The Red Comet battles the Slasher and his gang of space hijackers; Gale Allen and the Girl Squadron set out to rescue Rika from the Outer Venusians; Flint Baker squares off against mad scientist Dr. Worr to save Earth. Some images used in Parade of Pleasure (a Seduction of the Innocent-type anti-comics book). Mars, God of War; The Red Comet; Gale Allen and the Girl Squadron; Flint Baker. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #70
    Planet Comics (1940 Fiction House) 70

    Cover art by Maurice Whitman. Untitled story, art by Lily Renee; Hunt and Lyssa are trying to escape some Voltamen and discover Dr. Schultz, so they enlist his aid in destroying a Volta power station. Untitled story, art by Joe Doolin; The planet Itec has returned to its orbit after being lost for aeons, and is now capturing spaceships; Gale is mistaken for a legendary queen and manages to hypnotize Lor. Untitled story, art by Murphy Anderson; Star takes a spaceship of male colonists to a forgotten world populated only by women; People age very slowly there and the colonists decide to stay on with the women, while Star and Blackbeard continue to roam the universe. Untitled story; Huldan escapes prison posing as a robot in a load of others being delivered by Reef; Flint follows and together they thwart a plot of Huldane's to transform women into plant-being slaves. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #71
    Planet Comics (1940 Fiction House) 71
    • Paper: Off white to white
    • Slab: Minor side/edge crack(s); See item notes
    • Inner well not fully sealed, book appears unaffected and secure.
    • Label #4118089006
    • Paper: Off white to white
    • Label #3975128002
    • Paper: Off white
    • Label #1282558001
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.
    • 1.5" Cumulative spine split. Cover detached at one staple (glued to first wrap). 4" back cover tear. Cover oxidation.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
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    Cover art by Maurice Whitman. Invasion? story, art by John Belcastro. The Sandhogs of Mars story, art by Maurice Whitman. The Changelings starring Space Rangers, inks by Bernard Sachs. Silence From Planetoid X, art by Bill Discount. Hijack On Alpha-7 story, pencils by Bill Benulis, inks by Jack Abel. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.