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Fawcett really did a super job with all of their science-fiction one-shots - Destination Moon, The Man From Planet X, and Vic Torry and his Flying Saucer. This wasn't the first time that Edwin Balmer & Philip Wylie's When Worlds Collide had been adapted to comics, however. Earlier, it had been a newspaper strip, with the hero's name changed to the title character of SPEED SPAULDING. I guess it's only fair that the adaptation made the hero's name sound Flash Gordon-ish, since Flash's origin story was directly inspired by Balmer & Wylie's novel (with planet Mongo replacing planet Zyra). The newspaper strip later made its way into comic books in FAMOUS FUNNIES No. 72 (July 1940) and ran until issue 88. Check it out at https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=31720 beginning on Page 18.

Link to the book: Motion Picture Comics 110 When Worlds Collide