Space Busters #2

(Fall 1952)

["Football Time is all the Time with Jim Prentice Electric Football"] (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

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Victory on Valda (Table of Contents: 2)

Space Busters / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

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Pencils:

Murphy Anderson

Inks:

Murphy Anderson

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Letters:

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Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Captain Brett Crockett; Lieutenant April Wing; Sergeant Bolo; Lieutenant Castro; Menso; Rada; Lazar

Synopsis:

Captain Crockett's troops have a hard time convincing the freedom fighters of the planetoid Valda that they're not just as bad as the Belzarians, until nurse Wing saves Menso's daughter Rada.

Every Space Buster a One-Man Army (Table of Contents: 3)

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Genre:

science fiction

Indexer Notes

Everything you want to know about their metallo-plastic helmets, thermo rifle, proton pistol, micro-grenades, and Space Buster Academy outside Luna City on the Moon. "Only three applicants out of every thousand are accepted for Space Buster training -- and only 40% of these recruits finish the full two years' training."

Remember Makano (Table of Contents: 4)

Space Busters / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script:

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Pencils:

Murphy Anderson

Inks:

Murphy Anderson

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Letters:

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Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Captain Brett Crockett; Sergeant Bolo; Senstral

Synopsis:

After the traitor Senstral leads an attack of the Utani ape-men on the outpost on Makano, Captain Crockett leads a select platoon that decimates the Utani barracks and destroys the Belzarian death ray tank corps.

["Interplanetary Action!"] (Table of Contents: 5) (Expand) /

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The True Story of Flying Saucers (Table of Contents: 6)

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Script:

Harry Harrison

Letters:

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Life in the Solar System (Table of Contents: 7)

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Pencils:

Everett Raymond Kinstler

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Everett Raymond Kinstler

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Genre:

science fiction

Synopsis:

Mercury is too hot, Jupiter is too cold, but they hold out the possibility of life on Venus ("the coldest parts of Venus have the same temperature as our equator") and Mars ("the warmest climate of Mars resembles our sub-Arctic').

Mission to Baldor! (Table of Contents: 8)

Space Busters / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

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Pencils:

Marvin Stein (signed) [as M. Stein]

Inks:

Marvin Stein (signed) [as M. Stein]

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Characters:

Sabra; Abba; Senstral; Caldo; Captain Brett Crockett; Sergeant Bolo; Lieutenant April Wing

Synopsis:

Capt. Crockett befriends Sabra, the leader of the guerilla movement on the planetoid Baldor. Together, they deliver a decisive defeat to Senstral and his Mashon troops.

The Batmen of Luna (Table of Contents: 9)

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Pencils:

John Prentice

Inks:

John Prentice

Colors:

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Letters:

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Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Lieutenant Steve Halden; Kara Lane; Captain Dane Bartok

Synopsis:

Captain Bartok has a chance to repair his tarnished reputation when the Batmen attack Earth.

Peenemünde (Table of Contents: 10)

comic story / 1 page (report information)

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Pencils:

Everett Raymond Kinstler

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Everett Raymond Kinstler

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Genre:

war

Synopsis:

The race of the American, British, and Russian forces to secure the rocket research site on the Baltic Sea in 1945.

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["Uncle Bernie's Fun Shop"] (Table of Contents: 12) (Expand) /

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