Red Comet
#3
(October 1961)
Atlas Publishing,
1961 Series
- Price
- 6d [0-0-6 GBP]
- Pages
- 28
- Indicia Frequency
- Monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1961
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Atlas Publishing and Distributing Co. Ltd.
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
Indicia: "Printed in England by Davenport Askew & Co. Ltd., 134 St. Paul's Way, London, E.3. Published and distributed monthly by Atlas Publishing and Distributing Co. Ltd., 18 Bride Lane, London, E.C.4."
Mist Men of Mercury
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- ? [as Arnot Bissel]
- Pencils
- Gene Fawcette ?
- Inks
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- Malcolm Reiss (original editor); Will Eisner (original art director); S. M. Iger (original feature editor)
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
-
from Planet Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #4 (April 1940)
-
Indexer Notes
Story begins on the inside front cover and ends on the inside back cover.
[no title indexed]
Red Comet / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ? [as Cy Thatcher]
- Pencils
- John Celardo
- Inks
- Dan Zolnerowich; Joe Doolin
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- Paul Payne (original editor)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The Red Comet, good will ambassador from Earth, arrives at Naru, a city of icy splendor on the planet Uranus.
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- from Planet Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #37 (July 1945) which is reprinted
- from Planet Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #13 (July 1941) [Six of the eight-page Red Comet story]
-
[no title indexed]
Gale Allen / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Douglas McKee
- Pencils
- Fran Hopper (signed)
- Inks
- Fran Hopper (signed)
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- Paul Payne (original editor)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Log of spaceship R.O. 527 RS 43 -- we were skirting the unexplored regions…
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- from Planet Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #37 (July 1945)
-
Among the Missing
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Bill Benulis ?
- Inks
- Jack Abel
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- Jack Byrne (original managing editor); S. M. Iger (original art director); ? (original editor)
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- from Planet Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #73 (Winter 1953)
-
[no title indexed]
Flint Baker and Reef Ryan Space Rangers / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Hugh Fitzhugh
- Pencils
- Jack Keller
- Inks
- Jack Keller; Alvin Hollingsworth ?
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- Paul Payne (original editor)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Why did the Earth move nearer the Sun?
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- from Planet Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #37 (July 1945)
-
Indexer Notes
The story title "Behemoths of the Purple Void" is used on the cover of the original printing.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Red Comet -
1.
Mist Men of Mercury
-
2.
["The Red Comet, good will ambassador from Earth, arrives at Naru, a city of icy splendor on the planet Uranus."]
Red Comet -
3.
["Log of spaceship R.O. 527 RS 43 -- we were skirting the unexplored regions…"]
Gale Allen -
4.
Among the Missing
-
5.
["Why did the Earth move nearer the Sun?"]
Flint Baker and Reef Ryan Space Rangers
This issue was modified by, among others
- Doug Brain
- Peter Croome
- Ramon Schenk
- James Zee
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