- Script
- Gardner Fox (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- adventure; detective-mystery
Story starts on the inside front cover and ends on the inside back cover. Relates to the scene on the cover of this issue.
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Fred Guardineer ?
- Inks
- John Giunta ?; Ray Willner ?; Frank Frazetta; ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- When the atomic bomb exploded in the face of a stunned world...
- Genre
- science fiction; adventure
- Characters
- Jet Black; Prism Pirate; Tel Han; Jak Tal
- Synopsis
- The Prism Pirate has a prism that concentrates cosmic rays, which he uses to attack Space Patrol ships.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- cosmic rays; Mars; Tycho Crater; uranium
This does not appear to be Guardineer's typical style. Compare with the final, signed, story in this issue. Whoever the penciller is each page appears to have a different inker. John Giunta's hand is suggested by page 2, possibly Ray Willner's on page 5, and surely Frank Frazetta inks page 6.