The art is by Kurt Schaffenberger. Can't get much better than that. GCD says it's by Schaffenberger alone, but some of the panels look like someone else may have had a hand in them (Pete Costanza, maybe?), but it could have just been a young KS.
By BiffBangPow
The Alien featured in this movie really creeped me out when I saw this on TV back in the 60s as a kid. Loved the movie ,love the comic.
By positronic1
Beautiful scan, nice straight borders, printed in perfect registration. Many thanks to Supermoose (if he's still around) for the upload. Fawcett really did a first-class job of adapting movies, if this and the Destination Moon one-shot are any gauge to measure by. There are many interesting things about this story from 1952. The alien UFOnaut does not have a disc-shaped spacecraft, but the general tone of this story is very much like that told by some who claimed to have experienced a "Close Encounter of the Third Kind" -- at least a decade or so before such reports began to appear. (Makes you wonder...) At any rate, I had nearly forgotten about this story, and I'm glad I remembered it now so that I can add it to my collection of UFO/Flying Saucer comics.
Additional Information
Name
Fawcett Movie Comic 15 - The Man from Planet X | Published
Publication
Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 36 | Frequency: bi-monthly | Editing: B. J. Heyman; Will Lieberson (executive editor); Al Jetter (art editor)
Cover
The Man from Planet X / 1 page
Letters
typeset
Genre
Science Fiction
Illustration
No Title (1 page)
Pencils
? (photographs)
Inks
? (photographs)
Letters
typeset
Notes
Inside front cover. Photos from the movie.
Comic Story
The Man from Planet X! (32 pages)
Script
Aubrey Wisberg (original movie); Jack Pollexfen (original movie)
Schaffenberger art by Craig Delich per P.C. Hamerlinck in Alter Ego #147 (July 2017). Previous indexers credited George Evans or Pete Costanza on pencils and Jack Kamen on inks.
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