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| Name | Planet Comics 2 (paper/10fiche) | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 68 | Frequency: every month |
| Notes | On sale date from the publication date reported to the U.S. Copyright Office found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, January-December 1940, Numbers 1-4. Class B periodical. Copyright number B 440632. In contrast to issues before and after it, this issue was published by Glen Kel rather than Love Romances. |
| Cover | Cave of the Demons / 1 page |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Characters | Flint Baker |
| Pencils | Will Eisner |
| Inks | Will Eisner |
| Advertisement | No Title (1 page) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Pencils | Leo Morey |
| Inks | Leo Morey |
| Notes | Found on the inside front cover. Indicia lists Thurmond T. Scott as President, Malcolm Reiss as Editor, William E. Eisner as Art Director, and S. M. Iger as Feature Editor. Illustrated advertisement from the publisher, repeating the ad from the previous issue, and adding five new pictures of German aircraft. The largest picture is titled "British Bombers Over Wilhelmshaven" by artist Leo Morey, then there are ten postcard sized pictures of British and German aircraft. Readers were advised to send in the coupons from the February issues of Jumbo, Fight, Jungle and Planet Comics with five cents in coin, or just mail in 75 cents to cover the cost. |
| Story | Planet Payson (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Professor Sandow detects strange flashes among the clouds. Payson and Roland investigate and discover a castle on a cloud, where they discover eerie Hawkmen who seek help in ending a war between the clouds. |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Characters | Planet Payson (introduction); Professor Sandow (astronomer, introduction); Roland (introduction); The Hawkmen (introduction); Buzzlark (villain, introduction, death); Buzzlark's men (villains, introduction for all, many die) |
| Script | Herman Bolstein (signed) |
| Pencils | George Tuska |
| Inks | George Tuska |
| First Line | Several miles above sea level towers Prof. Sandow's observatory: |
| Comic Story | Cave of the Demons / Flint Baker (15 pages) |
| Synopsis | Planning to return to Earth after their adventures on Mars, Flint and Mimi are approached by Princess Viga, who begs them to stay and help defend her people from a terrifying monster. |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Characters | Fletcher "Flint" Baker; Mimi Wilson; Princess Viga; unnamed Martian scientist (villain, introduction, death); the scientist's monster (villain, introduction, death) |
| Script | Herman Bolstein (signed) |
| Pencils | Art Peddy ? Bob Powell ? |
| Inks | Art Peddy ? Bob Powell ? |
| First Line | Flint Baker, Mimi, and his two aids plan... |
| Notes | The story title is taken from the cover blurb. For this story only, the Feature Logo is "The Adventures on Mars of... Flint Baker" |
| Comic Story | The Dashing, Slashing Adventure of the Great Solinoor Diamond / Tiger Hart (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Tiger Hart rescues the captive Queen Hilda from the clutches of Turk the Terrible, who is holding her in exchange for the Great Solinoor diamond. |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Characters | Tiger Hart (introduction); Zip (introduction); Queen Hilda (introduction); Turk the Terrible (villain, introduction); Talon (villain, introduction, death) |
| Script | Fletcher Hanks (signed) |
| Pencils | Fletcher Hanks (signed) |
| Inks | Fletcher Hanks (signed) |
| Letters | Fletcher Hanks (signed) |
| First Line | The Great Solinoor was the largest diamond ever known. |
| Notes | For this story only, the Feature Logo is "Tiger Hart of Crossbone Castle on the Planet Saturn". |
| Story | Spurt Hammond (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Spurt is sent to the planet Venus in order to obtain a supply of Radia-Tronite crystal which is needed to supply power to America's generators, leading to a war between America and Mars. |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Characters | Lieutenant Spurt Hammond; Amoura (Queen of Venus, introduction); Prince Khangiz (villain, Red Master of Mars, introduction) |
| Pencils | Henry Kiefer |
| Inks | Henry Kiefer |
| First Line | A pound of coal is insignificant, but a... |
| Text Story | The Earth Queen's Last Refuge (1.5 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Queen and Commander land on a little known planetoid known as Cathoid after escaping from the Red Fleet of Betelgeux, whose mission is to wipe out all Earth craetures in the universe! |
| Script | ? [as Don Varick] (credited) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Characters | Queen Lais; Commander Lothain; Ma'Gloon (villain, traitor to Earth, death); Betelgeuzians (villains) |
| First Line | As magnificent and steady as Venus, in her orbit, the great, gray, battered space-ship... |
| Notes | Story is continued from the previous issue. The last half-page of the story features an illustrated advertisement from the Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, encouraging readers to sell just three magazines for their company, and earn money and prizes for doing so. |
| Advertisement | No Title |
| Script | ? (ad copy) |
| Letters | ?; typeset |
| Notes | The last half of page 37 features an illustrated advertisement from the Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, encouraging readers to sell just three magazines for their company, and earn money and prizes for doing so. Ad contains a small stick figure three panel cartoon. |
| Story | Buzz Crandall (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Buzz, the doctor and his daughter are attacked by mysterious Crab-Men at the bottom of the seas covering Neptune, are captured and taken to the lair of the evil Sinfo, who controls the creatures, and who intends to use his captaives as guinea pigs. |
| Script | ? [as Bob Jordan] (credited) |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Characters | Buzz Crandall; Dr. Coran [aka Curan] (scientist); Sandra Coran [aka Curan] (the doctor's daughter); Sinfo (villain, scientist, introduction, death); the Crab-Men (villains, introduction for all) |
| First Line | While at the bottom of the seas that cover... |
| Notes | Possible artists for this strip in 1940 include Nick Cardy, Gene Fawcette, and Charles Sultan. Oddity: In this story, the spelling of the doctor and his daughter's last names are alternately known as "Coran" and "Curan", and the daughter's name is now Sandra (it was Nancy in issue #1). |
| Story | Captain Nelson Cole (15 pages) |
| Synopsis | Cole is ordered to take a large fleet to the Planet Zog to take on a giant who is extracting tribute from Zog's poor people. |
| Pencils | ? (pages 1-9) |
| Inks | ? (pages 1-9) |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Characters | Captain Nelson Cole [becomes "Torro" in this story only with magic clothing and whip]; Z-X (Cole's boss); Berton (member of Cole's crew); Ruler of Zog (introduction); a two-headed giant (villain, introduction, death) |
| Pencils | Malcolm Kildale (pages 10-15) |
| Inks | Malcolm Kildale (pages 10-15) |
| First Line | Captain Cole, I want you to take a... |
| Notes | The giant's heads are of "husband and wife". |
| Story | Auro Lord of Jupiter (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | At one of his famed gigantic banquets, Auro is pulled aside by one of the servants, Ava, and told that he must flee before the murderer of her parents, Agra, arrives to kill him. |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Characters | Ava (introduction); Agra (villain, introduction, death) |
| Script | Herman Bolstein |
| Pencils | R. Louis Golden (signed) |
| Inks | R. Louis Golden (signed) |
| First Line | Auro is giving one of his frequent monster banquets for the poverty-stricken, when... |
| Notes | HS notes that, despite the Golden credit, the art looks more like Malcolm Kildale than Golden. The final panel blurb provides the title to next issue's story, "The Dragon God". |
| Publisher advertisement | No Title (1 page) |
| Script | ? (promo copy) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Adventure; Jungle |
| Pencils | Lou Fine Will Eisner |
| Inks | Lou Fine |
| Notes | Inside back cover. Illustrated house advertisement for Jungle Comics #1, Fight Comics #1, and Jumbo Comics #11, all covers reproduced. |
| Advertisement | No Title (1 page) |
| Script | ? (ad copy) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Found on the back cover. Illustrated advertisement from Johnson Smith and Company in Detroit, Michigan, inviting readers to order a wide variety of products, to include a 30-shot B-B pistol, a vest pocket folding camera, an electric telephone set, and much more. |
| 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 | |
