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| Date | | Number: 4 | Lang: English (en) | |||
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| Name | Planet Comics 4 | 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. Class B Periodical. Copyright number B 448363. |
| Cover | Slave Planet / 1 page |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Characters | Flint Baker |
| Pencils | Charles Sultan |
| Inks | Charles Sultan |
| Publisher advertisement | No Title (1 page) |
| Feature | Bull's-Eye Bannon |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Detective-mystery |
| Characters | Bull's-Eye Bannon |
| First Line | Wanted! Comic magazine manhunters to join the war on crime. |
| 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 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 May 1, 1940. On sale date for Planet #5 (May, 1940) is listed as April 15th. |
| Comic Story | Slave Planet / Flint Baker (11 pages) |
| Synopsis | On their way back to Earth, Flint and Mimi are attacked by a space monster as they pass the planet Jupiter, and when others threaten,the crew decides to land on Jupiter. There they face the threat of the Great Eye, the Great Ear and the Great Mouth. |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Characters | Fletcher "Flint" Baker; Mimi Wilson; Parks (crew member); the Great Eye (villain, introduction, death?); the Great Ear (villain, introduction); the Great Mouth (villain, introduction); space monsters (villains, creatures, some die) |
| Script | Herman Bolstein |
| Pencils | Art Peddy |
| Inks | Will Eisner ? Art Peddy |
| First Line | Flint and Mimi are returning from an adventure on a distant planet... |
| Notes | The story title is taken from the cover. |
| Story | Auro Lord of Jupiter (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | The people inhabiting Auro's planet gather to watch a strange space ship hurtling from space and landing in a lake. When Auro investigates, he discovers the ship contains a young Prince of Saturn who was shot into space by his madman uncle. |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Characters | Jano (Prince of Saturn, introduction); Thogra (villain, Jano's uncle, a Saturnian, introduction, death) |
| Script | Herman Bolstein |
| Pencils | Bob Powell Sid Greene ? |
| Inks | Bob Powell |
| First Line | Auro and his loyal followers save the universe from a diabolical plot of a power greedy Saturnian... |
| Story | The Red Comet (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | While cruising in outer space, the Comet spots an Earth ship heading directly toward Vegeto, the Planet of Deadly Plants. He decides to follow them down and saves them before the planet's vegetation destroys them. |
| Inks | ? [shop] |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Characters | The Red Comet; unnamed Earth explorers |
| Script | Ken Jackson |
| Pencils | Alex Blum ? Dan Zolnerowich ? |
| Inks | Dan Zolnerowich ? |
| First Line | Speeding on his strange, adventurous journey among the stars and planets... |
| Notes | Oddity: The Red Comet shrinks down and communicates with termites (ala Ant-Man). |
| Story | Captain Nelson Cole (13 pages) |
| Synopsis | As Captain Cole is being recognized as guest of honor at the Third Centenary of the Solar Police Force, a death ray strikes and kills a number of dancers. Cole investigates the ray and discovers that his enemy, Felon, is behind it. Cole follows his foe to Earth, where Felon is offering his services to aggressor nations. |
| Script | ? [as Beekman Terrill (byline)] |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Characters | Captain Nelson Cole; Felon (villain) |
| Pencils | Charles Sultan |
| Inks | Charles Sultan |
| First Line | A banquet celebrating the third centenary of the Solar Police Force, is given at headquarters on Mars. |
| Text Story | Mist Men of Mercury (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Kirk was spinning out of control through space after escaping from a concentration camp on Earth, being placed there by a mad dictator who was going to execute him for a crime he never committed. He lands on Mercury by chance and discovers the eerie Mist Men. |
| Script | ? [as Arnot Bissel] (credited) |
| Inks | ? (spot illustrations) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Characters | Kirk; Hoffer (scientist); the Mist Men |
| Pencils | Gene Fawcette (spot illustrations) ? |
| First Line | Would this terrible dizziness never cease? |
| Comic Story | Space Islands of Destruction / Spurt Hammond (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Spurt is sent to Mercury to battle the dreaded beaked men who wear detachable bat wings and have been attacking the commerce routes and taking hostages for ransom. |
| Script | ? [as Wm. S. Mott (byline)] |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Characters | Spurt Hammond; Janice Dale (introduction); Mercurian pirates (villains, introduction for all) |
| Pencils | Henry Kiefer |
| Inks | Henry Kiefer |
| First Line | A young American space pilot, in the year... |
| Notes | Story title is taken from the cover blurb. Story occurs in the year 25000. |
| Story | Buzz Crandall (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Dr. Curan brings desperate news from the Earth to Lt. Crandall that the Moon is going to explode due to the build-up of hydrogen gas at its core. Unfortunately for them, one of the passengers invited along for the trip, Dr. Zynnon, has an intense hatred for mankind and seeks to destroy them. |
| Script | ? [as Bob Jordan (byline)] |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Characters | Lieutenant Buzz Crandall; Doctor Curan [aka Curran]; Sandra Curan (the doctor's daughter); Dr. Zynnon (villain, introduction, death) |
| First Line | Adventure at the center of the Moon. |
| Comic Story | No Title (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | The colonel and Dwight scheme to get Kenny to re-enlist. Unknown to them, their phony plot turns out to be real, and Carr re-ups to help repel the invaders. |
| Feature | Kenny Carr of the Martian Lancers |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Characters | Captain Kenny Carr (introduction); Dwight (Carr's service buddy); unnamed colonel; enemy soldiers (villains, half die) |
| Script | Stan Ford (byline) |
| Pencils | Larry Antonette ? |
| First Line | Kenny Carr's term of enlistment with the service has ended -- and he intends to go back to Earth... |
| Notes | Only appearance, even though the story seems to imply that this is a continued story from somewhere, and the final blurb indicates that Carr will return in the next issue. |
| Story | Gale Allen (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | North receives an urgent SOS from a scouting party, stating that they have been captured by pirates from Pluto. North asks the commandant for help and Gale Allen and her Women's Space Battalion arrive to help out, much to his disdain. |
| Script | ? [as Fred Nelson (byline)] |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Characters | Gale Allen and the Women's Space Battalion (introduction for all); Captain Jack North (Universal Space Patrol member, introduction); The Plutonians (villains, introduction for all, some die) |
| Pencils | Ray Burnley ? |
| First Line | Captain Jack North of the Universal Space Patrol, is waiting for a scouting party, at his sub-station on a satellite of Saturn... |
| Notes | For this story only, the Feature Logo is "Gale Allen of the Women's Space Battalion" On the cover, this feature is billed as "Gale Allen of the Girls' Space Patrol." |
| Comic Story | No Title |
| Feature | Space Facts |
| Script | ? [by Lunar] (signed) |
| Genre | Non-fiction; Math & Science |
| First Line | The Ancient Egyptians believed that the Milky Way... |
| Notes | Amazing space facts are presented in four separate illustrated panels. |
| Comic Story | Case 2....File-A....Clue 4 |
| Feature | The Case of the Frightened Killer |
| Genre | Detective-mystery |
| Characters | Bull's-Eye Bannon; Nora Earl (Dean's daughter-in-law); Clarence Dean (Earl's younger son); Miss Kane (a nurse) |
| Pencils | Bob Powell |
| Inks | Bob Powell |
| First Line | Come on downstairs. |
| Notes | The 4th and final clue is provided in Case 2 and which Junior Manhunters of American are asked to solve and discover the identity of the true guilty person. |
| Comic Story | The Strongest Man in the Universe (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Giant must face fierce men from the North Pole who travel in strange sleds that can reach speeds of 100 mph and are armed with ray guns. |
| Feature | Jim Giant, the Strongest Man in the Universe |
| Script | ? [as Ned Small (byline)] |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Characters | Jim Giant (introduction); an unnamed dictator to be (villain, introduction) |
| Pencils | Alex Blum ? |
| First Line | Out of the frozen north, sweep hordes of savage warriors. |
| Notes | Only appearance, even though the final blurb indicates that Giant will back in the next issue. |
| Publisher advertisement | No Title (1 page) |
| Pencils | various |
| Inks | various |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Adventure; Jungle |
| Notes | Found on the inside back cover. Illustrated house advertisement for Jungle Comics #4 (Charles Sultan ? art), Fight Comics #4 (Lou Fine art), and Jumbo Comics #14 (Bob Powell 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. |
| Advertisement | No Title (1 page) |
| Pencils | ? (photo) |
| Inks | ? (photo) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | On back cover. Photo illustrated advertisement from the Book Coupon Exchange in New York City, offering to Planet Comics' readers the opportunity to get the works of 25 great authors in 25 giant volumes. By sending in the coupon provided, the reader will receive the first volume, "The Complete Works of Shakespeare", in advance, then submit payment within one week for 89 cents (for the regular edition) or $1.39 (for the deluxe edition). Once payment is received, the reader will receive a form for future books in the series. |
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