(Fall 1952)
Ziff-Davis,
1952 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- Quarterly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Approved Comics Inc.
- Brand
- Ziff-Davis Comic Group
[no title indexed]
advertisement / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Football Time is all the Time with Jim Prentice Electric Football
Indexer Notes
Ad for The Electric Game Co.
Victory on Valda
Space Busters / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Captain Brett Crockett; Lieutenant April Wing; Sergeant Bolo; Lieutenant Castro; Menso; Rada; Lazar
- Synopsis
- Captain Crockett's troops have a hard time convincing the freedom fighters of the planetoid Valda that they're not just as bad as the Belzarians, until nurse Wing saves Menso's daughter Rada.
Every Space Buster a One-Man Army
Space Busters / character profile / 1 page
- Genre
- science fiction
Indexer Notes
Everything you want to know about their metallo-plastic helmets, thermo rifle, proton pistol, micro-grenades, and Space Buster Academy outside Luna City on the Moon. "Only three applicants out of every thousand are accepted for Space Buster training -- and only 40% of these recruits finish the full two years' training."
Remember Makano
Space Busters / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Captain Brett Crockett; Sergeant Bolo; Senstral
- Synopsis
- After the traitor Senstral leads an attack of the Utani ape-men on the outpost on Makano, Captain Crockett leads a select platoon that decimates the Utani barracks and destroys the Belzarian death ray tank corps.
[no title indexed]
promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Interplanetary Action!
Indexer Notes
House ad for Amazing Adventures #6
Life in the Solar System
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- Mercury is too hot, Jupiter is too cold, but they hold out the possibility of life on Venus ("the coldest parts of Venus have the same temperature as our equator") and Mars ("the warmest climate of Mars resembles our sub-Arctic').
Mission to Baldor!
Space Busters / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Marvin Stein (signed) [as M. Stein]
- Inks
- Marvin Stein (signed) [as M. Stein]
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Characters
- Sabra; Abba; Senstral; Caldo; Captain Brett Crockett; Sergeant Bolo; Lieutenant April Wing
- Synopsis
- Capt. Crockett befriends Sabra, the leader of the guerilla movement on the planetoid Baldor. Together, they deliver a decisive defeat to Senstral and his Mashon troops.
The Batmen of Luna
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Lieutenant Steve Halden; Kara Lane; Captain Dane Bartok
- Synopsis
- Captain Bartok has a chance to repair his tarnished reputation when the Batmen attack Earth.
Peenemünde
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- war
- Synopsis
- The race of the American, British, and Russian forces to secure the rocket research site on the Baltic Sea in 1945.
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Table of Contents
-
0.
["Earth Fights Invaders from Outer Space!"]
-
1.
["Football Time is all the Time with Jim Prentice Electric Football"]
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2.
Victory on Valda
Space Busters -
3.
Every Space Buster a One-Man Army
Space Busters -
4.
Remember Makano
Space Busters -
5.
["Interplanetary Action!"]
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6.
The True Story of Flying Saucers
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7.
Life in the Solar System
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8.
Mission to Baldor!
Space Busters -
9.
The Batmen of Luna
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10.
Peenemünde
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11.
["I gained 53 lbs. of shapely power-packed muscles!"]
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12.
["Uncle Bernie's Fun Shop"]
This issue was modified by, among others
- Darci
- Peter Croome
- Michael Hoskin
- Axel Kahlstorff
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Mike Nielsen
- Brian Stewart
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