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| Date | | Number: 3 | Lang: English (en) | |||
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| Name | Planet Comics 3 | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 68 | Frequency: every month |
| Notes | On sale date from the publication date found at the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, January-December 1940, Numbers 1-4. Class B periodical. Copyright number B 444353. |
| Cover | Space War / 1 page |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Characters | Flint Baker |
| Pencils | Will Eisner |
| Inks | Will Eisner |
| Publisher advertisement | Calling All Manhunters! Can You Solve a Crime? (1 page) |
| Feature | Bull's-Eye Bannon |
| Letters | ?; typeset |
| Genre | Detective-mystery |
| Characters | Bull's-Eye Bannon |
| Notes | Found on the inside front cover. Illustrated promotional advertisement and contest from the publisher, offering $25 in prize money plus a membership in the new exclusive Junior Detective MANHUNTER Agency. Readers are told that each month Bull's-Eye would present a new case in the form of a strip at the bottom of a page in Planet, Jumbo, Jungle and Fight Comics which the readers would examine, then write out their solution to the case and submit it to the publishers along with the coupons found in each of those issues. The best solution gets $5, while the next 20 get $1 each. Deadline is March 1, 1940. Indicia lists Thurmond T. Scott as President, Malcolm Reiss as Editor, William E. Eisner as Art Director, and S. M. Iger as Feature Editor. |
| Comic Story | Space War / Flint Baker (13 pages) |
| 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. |
| Inks | ? [shop] |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Characters | Fletcher "Flint" Baker; Mimi Wilson; Plutonian King (villain, introduction); The Plutonians (villains, introduction for all) |
| Script | Herman Bolstein (signed) |
| Pencils | Bob Powell ? |
| First Line | Bidding goodbye to their Martian friends and Princess... |
| Notes | Title from cover. |
| Story | Amazona the Mighty Woman (12 pages) |
| 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. |
| 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) |
| Script | Toni Blum |
| Pencils | Alex Blum |
| Inks | Dan Zolnerowich Iger Shop ? |
| First Line | In the vast cold reaches of the far north lives Amazona, woman of surpassing strength and unmatched beauty. |
| Story | The Red Comet (5 pages) |
| 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. |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Characters | Red Comet; Golo (villain, ruler of the giants, introduction); the Giants (villains, introduction for all, many die) |
| Script | Ken Jackson (byline) ? |
| Pencils | Ken Jackson ? Alex Blum ? |
| First Line | Red Comet, mystery explorer of the universe, cruising through space in search of adventure, suddenly gets a strange message... |
| Notes | Hames Ware suggested Don Lynch or Newt Alfred as possibilities for penciler. |
| Story | Spurt Hammond (7 pages) |
| 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. |
| 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) |
| Pencils | Henry Kiefer |
| Inks | Henry Kiefer |
| First Line | Spurt Hammond is passing through space within the orbit of Mercury, when the spheroid of his astragraph picks up an alarming sight... |
| Text Story | The Lizard-Men of Alpha Astra (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Ames and Phillips visit a mystery planet and come face to face with rodent-faced Lizard Men! |
| Script | ? [as Lin Davies] (credited) |
| 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) |
| First Line | Captain Dexter Ames caught his breath. |
| Notes | Story occurs in the year 21,000 A.D. |
| Story | Buzz Crandall (5 pages) |
| 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. |
| Script | ? [as Bob Jordan] (byline) |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Characters | Lieutenant Buzz Crandall; Sabdra Coran; Moon Bats (villains); Lunar Land Squid (villain, death) |
| First Line | Lieutenant of the Space Patrol, Buzz Crandall's life is one of thrilling adventure. |
| Story | Captain Nelson Cole (12.75 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Chief of the Solar Force puts Captain Cole in charge of finding the space pirates that are attacking defenseless space transports. |
| Script | ? [as Beekman Terrill] (byline) |
| 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) |
| Pencils | Leonard Frank |
| Inks | Leonard Frank |
| First Line | Pirate ships attack defenseless space transports. |
| Notes | Art credits from Roy Thomas Presents Planet Comics (PS Artbooks, 2012 series) #1. |
| Comic Story | The Case of the Diamond Death: Case 1: File-A: Clue No. 4 / Bullseye Bannon |
| Synopsis | Bannon captures the last suspect in the murder of Tom Peerce. |
| Genre | Detective-mystery |
| Characters | Bulls-Eye Bannon; Tom Peerce (mention only, death); Bonse (villain); two unnamed criminals (villains) |
| Pencils | Bob Powell |
| Inks | Bob Powell |
| First Line | Pulling a gun won't help, Bonse... |
| Comic Story | The Dragon God / Auro Lord of Jupiter (6 pages) |
| 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. |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Characters | Auro's unnamed guard; the Dragon Man (villain, introduction, death) |
| Script | Herman Bolstein |
| Pencils | R. Louis Golden (signed) |
| Inks | R. Louis Golden (signed) |
| First Line | On the palace grounds, mighty Auro retains his wonderful build, by practicing hair-raising stunts! |
| Notes | The blurb of last issue's story indicated that the story for this issue was "The Dragon God". |
| Comic Story | No Title |
| Feature | Mysteries of the Universe |
| Genre | Non-fiction; Math & Science |
| First Line | There is no surface on the sun, it... |
| Notes | Illustrated, two panel factual information featurette on the origin of the Earth and the fact there is no surface to the Sun. |
| Advertisement | No Title |
| Pencils | ?; ? (photo) |
| Inks | ?; ? (photo) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Illustrated advertisement from the Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, asking readers to mail in a coupon, requesting the 32-page prize booklet, full of valuable prizes, which can be won if they agree to sell the company's three publications. |
| Publisher advertisement | No Title (1 page) |
| Pencils | various |
| Inks | various |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Illustrated house advertisement for Jungle Comics #3 (Charles Sultan art), Fight Comics #3 (Will Eisner art), and Jumbo Comics #13 (Will Eisner art), all covers reproduced with on sale dates. Readers are asked to read all four (including unseen Planet Comics) and join in the new Manhunter contest. Found on the inside back cover. |
| Advertisement | No Title (1 page) |
| Pencils | ?; ? (photos) |
| Inks | ?; ? (photos) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Found on the back cover. Illustrated and photographic advertisement from Remington Rand, Inc., telling readers how to get a free trial of their new portable typewriter, and how they can also purchase a desk to put it on for $1.00. |
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