(August-October 1952)
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- quarterly
- Indicia Publisher:
- Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
- Brand:
- A Dell Comic
- Editing:
- ?
- Format:
- Color; standard Golden Age and later Silver Age formats; saddle-stitched; newsprint; was an On-Going Series
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "TOM CORBETT, SPACE CADET, No. 421". Code number is S.C.O.S. #421-528. Copyright 1952 by Videofeatures, Inc. This is the third Tom Corbett Four Color issue. The title continues in Tom Corbett, Space Cadet (Dell, 1953 series) with #4 (November 1952-January 1953). Based on the 1950-52 TV series "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet."
[no title indexed]
Tom Corbett, Space Cadet / cover / 1 page
Credits
- Pencils:
- Alden McWilliams (painting)
- Inks:
- Alden McWilliams (painting)
- Colors:
- Alden McWilliams (painting)
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Tom Corbett; Roger Manning
Indexer Notes
Pencils, inks, and colors credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Space Academy
filler / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ? (photo)
- Inks:
- ? (photo)
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Frankie Thomas (as Tom Corbett, photo); Al Markin (as Astro the Venusian, photo); Jan Merlin (as Roger Manning, photo); John Fiedler (as Alfie Higgins, photo)
- Synopsis:
- Academy classroom photo from TV show.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. One photo and typeset text.
[Colonists of Io]
Tom Corbett Space Cadet / comic story / 34 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Paul S. Newman
- Pencils:
- Alden McWilliams
- Inks:
- Alden McWilliams
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Tom Corbett; Roger Manning; Astro the Venusian; Alfie Higgins; Commander Awkright; Capt. Steve Strong; Dr. Joan Dale
- Synopsis:
- A headstrong swashbuckler, Skip McKay, is in command of a spaceship of colonists bound for Jupiter's moon, Io. Capt. Strong and the cadets accompany them in a separate ship to see that the colony is set up according to law. The colonists make it to Io, but McKay discovers uranium there and causes trouble.
Indexer Notes
Story continues on inside back cover and concludes on back cover. A similar plot is used in the Grosset & Dunlap Tom Corbett book "Space Pioneers" (1954) by Carey Rockwell (a house name, who may or may not be Joe Greene or Richard Jessup.) Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). Script credit from Robin Snyder, taken from Paul S. Newman's personal records (July 22, 2007).
- Alan Hutchinson
- Merlin Haas
- Gene Reed
- Roger A. Budnick
- John P. Selegue
- Merlin Haas
- Ken Lemons
- Chris Launder
- Jim Walls
- Terry Vraspir
- Gary Perlman
- Jerry Hillegas
- Craig Delich
- James Ludwig
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Kenneth Blair
- Mike Nielsen
- David Porta
- Matthew Torrance
- Ken Kwilinski
- Gary L. Watson
- Gregg Whitmore
- Max Capp
- Tony R. Rose
- Lou Mazzella
- Rodney Hinkle
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Donald Dale Milne
- Karl Wilcox
- Darrel McCann
- Peter Croome
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