Space Busters #1

(Spring 1952)

["At last!"] (Table of Contents)

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Empress of Belzar (Table of Contents)

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Bernie Krigstein (signed) [as B. Krigstein]

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science fiction

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Captain Brett Crockett; Lieutenant April Wing; Sergeant Bolo; Commander Senstral (Agent Y-3-Z); Empress of Belzar

Synopsis:

Commander Senstral betrays his troops to the Belzaric Queen.

Charge of the Battle Women (Table of Contents)

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science fiction

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Captain Brett Crockett; Sergeant Bolo; Empress of Belzar; Helga; Lieutenant April Wing

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Capt. Crockett persuades one of their captors to release the platoon and join them on Earth.

The Man Who Invented Today (Table of Contents)

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Biography of Jules Verne.

Death Rite of the Dwarfs (Table of Contents)

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science fiction

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Captain Brett Crockett; Lieutenant April Wing; Sergeant Bolo; Lomax; Empress of Belzar; Senstral; Keno

Synopsis:

When nurse Wing is captured by the dwarf troops of Belzar, Capt. Crockett joins with Martian partisans to prevent her sacrifice to the dwarfs' god, Wardo.

Voyage to the Moon (Table of Contents)

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Impey Barbicane; Captain Nicholl; Michael Arden

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The Baltimore Gun Club initiates a voyage to the Moon.

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Adapted from Jules Verne's De la terre à la lune (1865) and Autour de la lune (1870).

["Thrills!"] (Table of Contents)

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Taru the Terrible (Table of Contents)

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Cliff Douglas; Fira; Taru

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When their spaceship loses power, Cliff and his fiancé Fira land on Venus, "three thousand years behind the other planets". The Emporer Taru decides to fight Cliff in the gladiatorial arena.

World's Largest Camera (Table of Contents)

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Article about the reflecting telescope at the Palomar Observatory in California.

["Flash!"] (Table of Contents)

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["Here's Proof..."] (Table of Contents)

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["Gee what a build!"] (Table of Contents)

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