(May 1953)
Charlton,
1952 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Capitol Stories Inc.
- Brand
-
A Capitol Publication
- Editing
- Al Fago (credited) (editor); Walter Gibson (assistant editor)
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Stan Campbell (signed)
- Inks
- Stan Campbell (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- science fiction
Two Worlds
comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
-
in Space Adventures (Charlton, 1952 series) #18 (September 1955)
-
Indexer Notes
According to Lou Mougin, the early Dick Giordano artwork in this story appears influenced by Wally Wood.
Invasion from Venus
Commander Rex Clive / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Rex Clive; Stella Dawn; Drox, Viceroy of Venus
- Synopsis
- Drox, the Viceroy of Venus, attacks the Earth by planting enormous Venusian plants in New York city. The fresh water is cut off from city supplies and the plants, some 600-feet-tall, die out when the roots reach ocean water.
Commander Rex Clive and the Twelfth Moon
Commander Rex Clive / text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
The Uncharted Planet
comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Kenneth Baker; Robert Larkin
- Synopsis
- Kenneth Baker and Robert Larkin have been out prospecting in space for three years. A license for their space ship is delinquent 30 months. Bob Larkin wants to call it off and return to Earth. They spot an uncharted asteroid and decide to check it out. The object turns out to be a planet with an Earth-like atmosphere. The ship crash lands. Bob dies, leaving Ken Baker stranded on the desert planet. Ken finds a lot of gold and buries Bob's body. Wandering the planet, he discovers an abandon city. He eats the mush pouring from a pipe in the city, eventually transforming into a lizard-creature.
The Black Doom
Commander Rex Clive / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Rex Clive; Speed Lansing
- Synopsis
- The Earth's climate is freezing, caused by the sun's inexplicable, sudden dying. Rex and Speed must solve the mystery. An alien race in the ionic atmosphere is responsible, focusing Black Ray on the capital city of Earth. The aliens are lead by one named Roj, who plans to enslave the Earth and land their space-city for settlement. The aliens require cold that will kill all human life on Earth. Rex rigged up a powerful lamp to attack the light-allergic aliens, blowing up their planetoid before they can use their Black Ray again to destroy the Earth's inhabitants.
Race to the Moon
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- A race to the Moon in the future.
- Reprints
- in Space Adventures (Charlton, 1952 series) #18 (September 1955)
-
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
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1.
Two Worlds
-
2.
Invasion from Venus
Commander Rex Clive -
3.
Commander Rex Clive and the Twelfth Moon
Commander Rex Clive -
4.
The Uncharted Planet
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5.
The Black Doom
Commander Rex Clive -
6.
Race to the Moon
This issue was modified by, among others
- Matthew Head
- James Ludwig
- Mike Nielsen
- Kevin Olson
- Gene Reed (R.I.P.)
- Tony R. Rose
- Ramon Schenk
- Richard Thomson
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