Planet Comics
#35
(March 1945)
Fiction House,
1940 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- Every other month
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Love Romances Pub. Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
Fiction House Magazines
- Editing
- Paul Payne (credited) (editor); Jack Byrne (credited) (managing editor); Thurman Scott (credited as T. T. Scott) (president, business manager)
[no title indexed]
The Lost World / comic story / 12 pages
- Script
- ? [as Thornecliffe Herrick]
- Pencils
- Lily Renee (signed)
- Inks
- Lily Renee (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Civilization on Earth died...crushed by the inhuman...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Voltamen (villains; death); Waxman (intro); Hunt Bowman; Lyssa
- Synopsis
- Hunt and Lyssa visit an abandoned amusement park and meet the hunchbacked Waxman, who also hates the Volta Men and has made prisoners of a number of them. More Volta Men arrive and capture Hunt, Lyssa and the Waxman, but at the end the evil aliens are wiped out thanks to Hunt and the Waxman.
- Keywords
- Adolf Hitler; Mussolini
Indexer Notes
Hunt and Lyssa visit a wax museum and see figures of Hitler and Mussolini, "even more fiendish than the Volta Men."
[no title indexed]
Mars, God of War / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- A world went mad at his maniacal whim...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Mars, God of War; Mysta (of the Moon; intro; origin); Dr. Kort (intro; death); Nors (intro; death; villain; Mysta's brother)
- Synopsis
- Mars provokes a mob to destroy Earth's last university, after ruining all museums and churches. He knows of Dr. Kort's laboratory on the moon, where Kort has preserved records of Earth culture and raised Mysta and Nors from infants to be the saviors of the planet. Mars takes control of a robot and tries to kill Dr. Kort and Mysta but fails. Mars possesses Nors and makes him murder Dr. Kort and destroy the lab. Mysta kills Nors and vows to defeat Mars some day.
- Reprints
-
in Thrilling Planet Tales (AC, 1991 series) (1991) [reprinted in black & white] - in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #366 - Mysta of the Moon ([March] 2017)
-
Indexer Notes
The phrase "God of War" appears on the cover blurb but not on the story. This was the last "Mars, God of War" story--with the following issue, the series was taken over by Mysta.
[no title indexed]
Gale Allen / comic story / 7 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Gale Allen's job looked routine...nursemaid to a...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Gale Allen; Professor Wise (intro); Professor McGinty (intro); Villains: The Pluto Cult (intro; death); zombies of Pluto (intro; death)
- Synopsis
- Gale takes Professors Wise and McGinty to explore an "unknown planetoid." Giant members of the Pluto Cult emerge from their long hibernation and attempt to kill the Earth intruders, but Gale destroys them instead.
Jupiter
Life On Other Worlds / comic story / 2 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Murphy Anderson (signed) [as M. C. Anderson]
- Inks
- Murphy Anderson (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- science fiction
[no title indexed]
Space Rangers / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- En route to Earth: Warning Buzzer, Reef!...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- The Space Rangers [Flint Baker; Reef Ryan]; Villains: Dorna (intro); Molecule Men (intro)
- Synopsis
- Dorna drops minuscule "molecule men" on Earth; the creatures swiftly grow to giant size and appear invulnerable. Dorna demands a ransom to stop the monsters' rampage. Flint and Reef use "World War Two weapons" (flame throwers) from a museum to shrink and kill the molecule men. "How this worked, I don't know," Reef says.
The Victory of Klon
text story / 2.67 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
Indexer Notes
One third of last page is taken up by the Ownership Statement.
[no title indexed]
statement of ownership / 0.33 page
- Script
- Jack Byrne (credited) (managing editor)
- Letters
- typeset
[no title indexed]
Star Pirate / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Star, this is crazy--fantastic! Trying to kidnap a...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Star Pirate; Senator Braxon (intro); Gura
- Synopsis
- Star and Gura abduct Senator Braxon and force him to witness the inhuman conditions in the Orion mines under his jurisdiction. Braxon sees the error of his ways and "proposes immediate relief."
- Reprints
- in Man O' Mars (Fiction House, 1953 series) #1 (1953) [edited and shortened] which is reprinted
- in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #26 ([November] 2000)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
The Lost World -
1.
["Civilization on Earth died...crushed by the inhuman..."]
The Lost World -
2.
["A world went mad at his maniacal whim..."]
Mars, God of War -
3.
["Gale Allen's job looked routine...nursemaid to a..."]
Gale Allen -
4.
Jupiter
Life On Other Worlds -
5.
["En route to Earth: Warning Buzzer, Reef!..."]
Space Rangers -
6.
The Victory of Klon
-
7.
[no title indexed]
-
8.
["Star, this is crazy--fantastic! Trying to kidnap a..."]
Star Pirate
This issue was modified by, among others
- Peter Croome
- Gregory Fischer
- Michael Hoskin
- Darrel McCann
- Patrick Shaughnessy
- Henry Steele, Hames Ware, Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. (R.I.P.)
- David Wilt
- Len Wolinsky
All portions of the Grand Comics Database™, except where noted otherwise, are
copyrighted by the GCD and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format.