Planet Comics #3

(March 1940)

Calling All Manhunters! Can You Solve a Crime? (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

Bull's-Eye Bannon / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

The Planetary Adventures of Flint Baker on Pluto / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Script

Herman Bolstein (signed as Starr Gayza)

Pencils

Bob Powell ?

Inks

? [shop]

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Bidding goodbye to their Martian friends and Princess...

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Fletcher "Flint" Baker; Mimi Wilson; Plutonian King (villain, introduction); The Plutonians (villains, introduction for all)

Synopsis

Instead of returning to Earth, Mimi sets the controls to Pluto, where they arrive out of fuel. Immediately, Flint is attacked by weird half-man, half-amphibian creatures and captured.

Reprints

• in Roy Thomas Presents Planet Comics (PS Artbooks, 2012 series) #1 (September 2012)

Keywords

Disintegrator Ray; Pluto

Indexer Notes

Script credit suggested by the Who's Who.

Pencils credit from Roy Thomas Presents Planet Comics (PS Artbooks, 2012 series) #1.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Amazona the Mighty Woman / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Script

Toni Blum (credited as Wilson Locke (byline))

Pencils

Alex Blum

Inks

Dan Zolnerowich; ? [shop]

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

In the vast cold reaches of the far north lives Amazona, woman of surpassing strength and unmatched beauty.

Genre

science fiction; adventure

Characters

Amazona (introduction, origin); Blake Manners (newspaperman, explorer, introduction, only appearance); Hennigan (Blake's newspaper Editor, introduction); unnamed cab driver (introduction); gang of jewel robbers (villains, introduction for all, most die)

Synopsis

Amazona and her people, the last survivors of a super race that perished during the last ice age, live in the far north reaches of the Arctic. They are visited by Blake, the only survivor of an exploratory expedition. Wanting to return to America, a land Amazona know nothing about, Blake finds himself accompanied on the trip by Amazona, who is bored with her true home.

Reprints

• in Roy Thomas Presents Planet Comics (PS Artbooks, 2012 series) #1 (September 2012)
• in Divas, Dames & Daredevils (Exterminating Angel Press, 2013 series) (2013) [page 1, panel 1, Amazona figure], (2013)
• in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #100 (2016)
• in Heroine Heaven (AC, 2022 series) #4 (2023) [extensively reworked]

Indexer Notes

Pencils credit from Roy Thomas Presents Planet Comics (PS Artbooks, 2012 series) #1.

Toni Blum and Dan Zolnerowich credits from Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #100.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

The Red Comet / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Ken Jackson ? [as Major Thorp] (byline)

Pencils

Ken Jackson ?; Alex Blum ?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Red Comet, mystery explorer of the universe, cruising through space in search of adventure, suddenly gets a strange message...

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Red Comet; Golo (villain, ruler of the giants, introduction); the Giants (villains, introduction for all, many die)

Synopsis

While crusing the universe, Red Comet gets a strange message from a ruler on Jupiter, who challenges the entire solar system to battle with his forces.

Reprints

• in Roy Thomas Presents Planet Comics (PS Artbooks, 2012 series) #1 (September 2012)
• in Golden-Age Greats Spotlight (AC, 2003 series) #19 (2019)

Keywords

Jupiter

Indexer Notes

Hames Ware suggests Don Lynch or Newt Alfred as possibilities for penciler.

Script and pencils credits from Roy Thomas Presents Planet Comics (PS Artbooks, 2012 series) #1.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

Spurt Hammond, Planet-Flyer / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Henry Kiefer

Inks

Henry Kiefer

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Spurt Hammond is passing through space within the orbit of Mercury, when the spheroid of his astragraph picks up an alarming sight...

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Spurt Hammond; Princess Zilla (introduction); Radgio (villain, Zilla's Prime Minister, introduction, death); Radgio's Councilmen (villains, introduction for all); Radgio's monsters (villains, introduction for all, some die)

Synopsis

While cruising near Mercury, Spurt's astragraph picks up the images of a young girl being roughly seized by brutal captors, and he heads to the planet to investigate. He saves Princess Zilla and learns that her prime minister is turning people into monsters, seeking to conquer the world.

Reprints

• in Roy Thomas Presents Planet Comics (PS Artbooks, 2012 series) #1 (September 2012)

Keywords

astragraph; Mercury

The Lizard-Men of Alpha Astra (Table of Contents: 6)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

? [as Lin Davies] (credited)

Pencils

? (spot illustrations)

Inks

? (spot illustrations)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Captain Dexter Ames caught his breath.

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Captain Dexter Ames; Doctor Phillips; Cara Phillips (the doctor's daughter); Sept Morgan (ship's Engineer); Gunner Hatch (crew member); The Lizard Men (villains, many die)

Synopsis

Ames and Phillips visit a mystery planet and come face to face with rodent-faced Lizard Men!

Reprints

• in Planet Stories (Atlas Publishing, 1961 series) #4
• in Roy Thomas Presents Planet Comics (PS Artbooks, 2012 series) #1 (September 2012)

Keywords

Columbus (a space ship); Planet Alpha Astra

Indexer Notes

Story occurs in the year 21,000 A.D.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 7)

Buzz Crandall of the Space Patrol / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

? [as Bob Jordan] (byline)

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Lieutenant of the Space Patrol, Buzz Crandall's life is one of thrilling adventure.

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Lieutenant Buzz Crandall; Sabdra Coran; Moon Bats (villains); Lunar Land Squid (villain, death)

Synopsis

Sandra and Buzz report to Post 82 on the Moon and discover that all communication with Post 83 has been cut off, so the pair go and investigate.

Reprints

• in Roy Thomas Presents Planet Comics (PS Artbooks, 2012 series) #1 (September 2012)

Keywords

Autoped; Cosmic Gun; Post 82; The Moon

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 8)

Captain Nelson Cole of the Solar Force / comic story / 12.75 pages (report information)

Script

? [as Beekman Terrill] (byline)

Pencils

Leonard Frank

Inks

Leonard Frank

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Pirate ships attack defenseless space transports.

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Captain Nelson Cole; unnamed Chief of the Solar Force; Felon (villain, space pirate leader, introduction, death?); space pirates (villains, introduction for all, many die)

Synopsis

The Chief of the Solar Force puts Captain Cole in charge of finding the space pirates that are attacking defenseless space transports.

Reprints

• in Roy Thomas Presents Planet Comics (PS Artbooks, 2012 series) #1 (September 2012)

Keywords

Iconoscope

Indexer Notes

Art credits from Roy Thomas Presents Planet Comics (PS Artbooks, 2012 series) #1.

The Case of the Diamond Death: Case 1: File-A: Clue No. 4 (Table of Contents: 9)

Bull's-Eye Bannon / comic story / 0.25 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Bob Powell

Inks

Bob Powell

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Pulling a gun won't help, Bonse...

Genre

detective-mystery

Characters

Bulls-Eye Bannon; Tom Peerce (mention only, death); Bonse (villain); two unnamed criminals (villains)

Synopsis

Bannon captures the last suspect in the murder of Tom Peerce.

Reprints

• in Roy Thomas Presents Planet Comics (PS Artbooks, 2012 series) #1 (September 2012)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 10)

Auro Lord of Jupiter / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Herman Bolstein

Pencils

R. Louis Golden (signed as R. L. Golden)

Inks

R. Louis Golden (signed as R. L. Golden)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

On the palace grounds, mighty Auro retains his wonderful build, by practicing hair-raising stunts!

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Auro (King of Jupiter); Auro's unnamed guard; the Dragon Man (villain, introduction, death)

Synopsis

A strange character approaches Auro's throne and asks him if he intends to kill a dragon responsible for the deaths of many of Auro's people. Soon Auro learns that this man, called the Dragon Man, is, in fact, the dragon.

Reprints

• in Roy Thomas Presents Planet Comics (PS Artbooks, 2012 series) #1 (September 2012)

Keywords

Jupiter

Indexer Notes

Script credit suggested by the Who's Who.

The blurb of last issue's story indicated that the story for this issue was "The Dragon God".

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 11)

Mysteries of the Universe / comic story / 0.5 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

There is no surface on the sun, it...

Genre

non-fiction; math & science

Reprints

• in Planet Stories (Atlas Publishing, 1961 series) #3 (September 1961)
• in Roy Thomas Presents Planet Comics (PS Artbooks, 2012 series) #1 (September 2012)

Indexer Notes

Illustrated, two panel factual information featurette on the origin of the Earth and the fact there is no surface to the Sun.

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advertisement / 0.05 page (report information)

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promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

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advertisement / 1 page (report information)