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| Date | | Number: 5 | Lang: English (en) | |||
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| Name | Planet Comics 5 | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 68 | Frequency: every month |
| Notes | On sale date from the publication date found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, 1940, Number 2. Second class permit. Copyright number 453477. |
| Cover | 1 page |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Pencils | Will Eisner |
| Inks | Will Eisner |
| Notes | HS suggests that perhaps Powell had some input here. |
| Activity | No Title (1 page) |
| Letters | typeset |
| First Line | $50.00 given away free |
| Notes | Inside front cover. A page offering $50 total for the 32 best responses to four questions. |
| Comic Story | The Phony War of Cato and Jupiter / Captain Nelson Cole (13 pages) |
| Synopsis | Villains Morgo and Zirgo convince the other planets to launch an attack against Jupiter. Captain Nelson Cole discovers the villains' ruse. |
| Script | ? [as Beekman Terrill] |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Characters | Morgo (villain, introduction, death); Zirgo (villain, introduction, death); The president of Earth (introduction); Nelson Cole |
| Pencils | Courtney Thomasen |
| Inks | Courtney Thomasen |
| Letters | Courtney Thomasen |
| First Line | A treacherous plot to throw the whole solar system into a war... |
| Story | Gale Allen (4 pages) |
| Script | ? [as Fred Nelson] |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Characters | Gale Allen; Jack North (guest-star); Prince Blaga Daru (villain, introduction) |
| Pencils | Bob Powell (signed) |
| Inks | Bob Powell (signed) |
| First Line | In 1990 AD, Prince Blaga Daru, notorious interplanetary... |
| Notes | For this story only, the Feature Logo is "Gale Allen of the Girls' Patrol" In the spirit of complete contrariety, this issue's cover lists this feature as "Gale Allen of the Women's Space Patrol." |
| Comic Story | The Vampire from Pluto / Fero Interplanetary Detective (5 pages) |
| 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) |
| Script | Al Bryant (signed) |
| Pencils | Al Bryant (signed) |
| Inks | Al Bryant (signed) |
| Letters | Gene Fawcette ? |
| First Line | Fero, scientist of the occult, super-detective of the nether world... |
| Notes | For this story only, the Feature Logo is "Fero, Planet Detective" |
| Comic Story | In the Jungles of Jupiter / Auro Lord of Jupiter (5.75 pages) |
| Synopsis | Auro helps an expedition searching for the Lomo plant, and fights a triceratops, a sabre-tooth cat and a pterodactyl. |
| Script | ? [as Jed Ganey] |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Characters | June (introduction); other scientists (introduction) |
| Pencils | Richard Golden Bob Powell |
| Inks | Richard Golden |
| Letters | Richard Golden |
| First Line | An expedition from Earth, searching for the strange mesozoic plant, lomo... |
| Comic Story | Case 3: File 1: Clue 4 |
| Feature | Strange Case of Ezra Ark: |
| Genre | Detective-mystery |
| Characters | Bull's-Eye Bannon; Ezra Ark |
| Pencils | Bob Powell |
| Inks | Bob Powell |
| First Line | Called to the scene of Ezra Ark's death... |
| Comic Story | Crime Takes a Holiday! / The Red Comet (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Red Comet exiles all criminals from Earth |
| Script | ? [as Thomas Marlen] (signed) |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Characters | The Red Comet; J. G. (villain, introduction, death); other warmongers (villains, introduction for all, all die) |
| Pencils | Don Rico |
| Inks | Don Rico |
| Letters | Bob Powell ? |
| First Line | One man, the Red Comet, mysterious adventurer against... |
| Text Story | Slave of the Lizard-Men (2 pages) |
| Script | ? [as Don Varick] |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Characters | Dexter Ames; Dr. Phillips; Gunner Hatch; lizard-men; unnamed giant humanoid |
| First Line | Captain Dexter Ames, guiding the spaceship Discoverer out of gloomy canyon walls for a survey of the mysterious planet... |
| Comic Story | The Doomed Universe (8 pages) |
| Feature | Space Admiral Curry |
| Script | ? [as Walt Scott] |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Characters | Space Admiral Curry (introduction); the Universal President (introduction); Rocko (villain, introduction, death) |
| Pencils | Nick Cardy ? |
| Inks | Nick Cardy ? |
| Letters | Nick Cardy ? |
| First Line | From an unknown universe, ominous, crafty creatures make a bold attempt to take the sun's vital energy away from Earth... |
| Comic Story | The Idiots of Pluto / Spurt Hammond (7 pages) |
| Script | ? [as Orson Herr] |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Characters | Morono [king of Pluto] (villain, introduction); King Satius (introduction); his daughter (introduction); Spurt Hammond; Plutonians |
| Pencils | Henry Kiefer |
| Inks | Henry Kiefer |
| Letters | Henry Kiefer |
| First Line | American pilot of an interplanetary transport rocket is... |
| Comic Story | Slaves of the Flower People / Buzz Crandall (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | On an unexplored planetoid, Buzz, along with partner Sandra, save the enslaved 'headless' people and destroy their captors, the plant people. |
| Script | ? [as Bob Jordan] |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Characters | The flower people of an asteroid (villains, introduction, death); Headless men of the asteroid (introduction); Buzz Crandall; Sandra Curan |
| Pencils | Nick Cardy ? |
| Inks | Nick Cardy ? |
| Letters | Nick Cardy ? |
| First Line | Trapped on a weird planet, ruled by insane plants... |
| Comic Story | Adventures on a New World / Flint Baker (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Flint & Mimi help relocate the ancient people of a dying race on a planet in a newly-formed solar system, where they're rejuvenated and become young again. He fights off a group of Gragonians, whose own planet was struck by a meteor and try to claim the new planet for their own. |
| Script | ? [as Starr Gayza] |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Characters | The Grangonians (villains); Mimi Wilson (guest-star); Flint Baker |
| Pencils | Art Peddy |
| Inks | Art Peddy |
| First Line | Flint Baker, pioneer space explorer, and his news reporter friend, Mimi, have just rocketed from the Earth-- |
| Cartoon | No Title (1 page) |
| Feature | Planet Puns |
| Script | ? [as Jupitor] (sic) |
| Genre | Humor |
| Characters | Mr. Goldbucks |
| First Line | No, you're not on another planet, Mr. Goldbucks. |
| Notes | These appear to be reprints of earlier gag cartoons which have been recaptioned to serve as science fiction-themed puns. |
| The data in the additional content section is courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution License. More details about this comic may be available in their page here | |
