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| Any story with Amazons has gotta be worth reading! Also, gotta love that hair tonic ad! Those were the infomercials of their day! |
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| Publication | Spring 1952 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: quarterly |
| Notes | Art credit from David Saunders, Norman Saunders' son, via e-mail (January 6, 2008) |
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| Content | Genre: Science Fiction |
| Notes | Art credit from David Saunders, Norman Saunders' son, via e-mail (January 6, 2008) |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Ad for Illinois Merchant Mart |
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| Comic Story | Empress of Belzar (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Commander Senstral betrays his troops to the Belzaric Queen. |
| Featuring | Space Busters |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Captain Brett Crockett; Lieutenant April Wing; Sergeant Bolo; Commander Senstral (Agent Y-3-Z); Empress of Belzar |
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| Comic Story | Charge of the Battle Women (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Capt. Crockett persuades one of their captors to release the platoon and join them on Earth. |
| Featuring | Space Busters |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Captain Brett Crockett; Sergeant Bolo; Empress of Belzar; Helga; Lieutenant April Wing |
| Notes | Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. |
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| Text Story | The Man Who Invented Today (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Biography of Jules Verne. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Comic Story | Death Rite of the Dwarfs (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | When nurse Wing is captured by the dwarf troops of Belzar, Capt. Crockett joins with Martian partisans to prevent her sacrifice to the dwarfs' god, Wardo. |
| Featuring | Space Busters |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Captain Brett Crockett; Lieutenant April Wing; Sergeant Bolo; Lomax; Empress of Belzar; Senstral; Keno |
| Notes | Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. |
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| Comic Story | Voyage to the Moon (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Baltimore Gun Club initiates a voyage to the Moon. |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Impey Barbicane; Captain Nicholl; Michael Arden |
| Notes | Adapted from Jules Verne's De la terre à la lune (1865) and Autour de la lune (1870). |
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| Notes | Ad for Flyboy, Hawk, Space Busters, Speed Smith, Eerie Mysteries, Beanbags, Explorer Joe, Wild Boy, Kid Cowboy, Crime Clinic, Sparkle, Crusader from Mars, Ellery Queen, Weird Thrillers, and G I Joe. |
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| Comic Story | Taru the Terrible (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | When their spaceship loses power, Cliff and his fiancé Fira land on Venus, "three thousand years behind the other planets". The Emporer Taru decides to fight Cliff in the gladiatorial arena. |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Cliff Douglas; Fira; Taru |
| Notes | Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. |
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| Comic Story | World's Largest Camera (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
| Notes | Article about the reflecting telescope at the Palomar Observatory in California. |
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| Notes | Ad for Casa de Joyas |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Ad for Comate Laboratories Inc. |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Ad for Charles Atlas |
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