(September 1940)
Fiction House,
1940 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- Every other month
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Love Romances Pub. Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
Fiction House Magazines
- Editing
- Malcolm Reiss (editor); Will Eisner (art director); S. M. Iger (feature editor)
Issue Notes
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
-
in Roy Thomas Presents Planet Comics (PS Artbooks, 2012 series) #3 (December 2013)
-
[no title indexed]
Flint Baker / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
-
in Action! Mystery! Thrills! Comic Book Covers of the Golden Age: 1933-45 (Fantagraphics, 2011 series) (December 2011) - in Roy Thomas Presents Planet Comics (PS Artbooks, 2012 series) #3 (December 2013), #3 (December 2013), #3 (December 2013)
-
Invasion from Uranus
The Red Comet / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The mystery man of space reveals the secret...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- The Red Comet (origin); The Uranians (villains, introduction, death)
- Reprints
- in Roy Thomas Presents Planet Comics (PS Artbooks, 2012 series) #3 (December 2013)
-
Indexer Notes
The story title is taken from the cover blurb.
World Without Light
Spurt Hammond / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ? [as Orson Herr]
- Pencils
- Henry Kiefer
- Inks
- Henry Kiefer
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Captain Hammond, here are your credentials, accrediting you...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- King Thermo of Mercury (introduction); Baron Burno (villain, introduction)
- Reprints
- in Roy Thomas Presents Planet Comics (PS Artbooks, 2012 series) #3 (December 2013)
-
Indexer Notes
The story title is taken from the cover blurb.
[no title indexed]
Gale Allen / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ? [as Fred Nelson]
- Pencils
- Witmer Williams
- Inks
- Witmer Williams
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- In a desperate attempt to gain revenge upon...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Jack North (guest-star); Blaga Daru (villain)
- Reprints
- in Roy Thomas Presents Planet Comics (PS Artbooks, 2012 series) #3 (December 2013)
-
[no title indexed]
Flint Baker / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Flint and Mimi have chosen Mars as their...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Martians (villains)
- Reprints
- in Roy Thomas Presents Planet Comics (PS Artbooks, 2012 series) #3 (December 2013)
-
What Are the Actual Possibilities of Space Travel?
illustration / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction; math & science
- Reprints
- in Roy Thomas Presents Planet Comics (PS Artbooks, 2012 series) #3 (December 2013)
-
Indexer Notes
Oddly, this one page feature has the number six in the lower right hand corner.
An Elementary Course In Astronautics
comic story / 2 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Gene Fawcette; Witmer Williams ?
- Inks
- Gene Fawcette ?; Witmer Williams ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- non-fiction; math & science
- Reprints
- in Roy Thomas Presents Planet Comics (PS Artbooks, 2012 series) #3 (December 2013)
-
Indexer Notes
Another anomaly, these are numbered pages two and three - making it likely that this is actually a three page feature and belongs with the previous "Space Travel" filler.
Moon Monster
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- Toni Blum ?
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- in Roy Thomas Presents Planet Comics (PS Artbooks, 2012 series) #3 (December 2013)
-
Menace of the Shrinking People
Captain Nelson Cole of the Solar Force / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Princess Eelo (villain, introduction, death)
- Reprints
- in Roy Thomas Presents Planet Comics (PS Artbooks, 2012 series) #3 (December 2013)
-
Indexer Notes
The story title is taken from the cover blurb.
Stampede on the Star Trail
Buzz Crandall of the Space Patrol / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Into the satellite above the planet Saturn flies...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Jytern (villain, introduction, death)
- Reprints
- in Roy Thomas Presents Planet Comics (PS Artbooks, 2012 series) #3 (December 2013)
-
Indexer Notes
The story title is taken from the cover blurb.
[no title indexed]
"Crash" Parker / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- All our crops are ruined! We face famine!
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Dirk (introduction); Martians (villains)
- Reprints
- in Roy Thomas Presents Planet Comics (PS Artbooks, 2012 series) #3 (December 2013)
-
Indexer Notes
Character's name is changed from "Barker" to "Parker" perhaps to avoid confusion with "Flint Baker."
Death From the Deep
Don Granval / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ? [as G. O. Garsh]
- Pencils
- Witmer Williams
- Inks
- Witmer Williams ?; ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Neptune is besieged by sea tanks, but Don...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Rogo (introduction); Rigoro (villain, introduction, death)
- Reprints
- in Roy Thomas Presents Planet Comics (PS Artbooks, 2012 series) #3 (December 2013)
-
[no title indexed]
Cosmo Corrigan / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The young dare-devil stunt flier of space!!! He'll...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Cosmo Corrigan (introduction); Plutonians (guest-star)
- Reprints
- in Roy Thomas Presents Planet Comics (PS Artbooks, 2012 series) #3 (December 2013)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Flint Baker -
1.
Invasion from Uranus
The Red Comet -
2.
World Without Light
Spurt Hammond -
3.
["In a desperate attempt to gain revenge upon..."]
Gale Allen -
4.
["Flint and Mimi have chosen Mars as their..."]
Flint Baker -
5.
What Are the Actual Possibilities of Space Travel?
-
6.
An Elementary Course In Astronautics
-
7.
Moon Monster
-
8.
Menace of the Shrinking People
Captain Nelson Cole of the Solar Force -
9.
Stampede on the Star Trail
Buzz Crandall of the Space Patrol -
10.
["All our crops are ruined! We face famine!"]
"Crash" Parker -
11.
Death From the Deep
Don Granval -
12.
["The young dare-devil stunt flier of space!!! He'll..."]
Cosmo Corrigan
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Rob Allen
- Peter Croome
- Jochen G.
- Michael Hoskin
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Patrick Shaughnessy
- Henry Steele, Hames Ware, Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. (R.I.P.)
- Jim Van Dore
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.