Alan Class,
1963 Series
- Price
- 1'- [0-1-0 GBP]
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Alan Class & Co. Ltd
- Brand
-
AC Approved Comic
- Editing
- Alan Class (reprint editor)
[A Look at a Backward Planet!]
cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Mere backward Earthlings are no match for superior beings such as we... WHAT TH ...!
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
-
from Space War (Charlton, 1959 series) #18 (September 1962)
-
Indexer Notes
Cover is the splash page from "A Look at a Backward Planet". The title has been removed from this reprint.
A Look at a Backward Planet
comic story / 6 pages
- Job Number
- A-1485
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Before RX23 went down to Earth to seize the widely selected samples of mankind, he scanned our civilization...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- RX23; an Inuit, a U.S. Marine; Mrs. Huntleighshireford; Nguta Lmu; a Russian; a Swede
- Synopsis
- Six Earthlings defeat their alien abductor.
- Reprints
- from Space War (Charlton, 1959 series) #18 (September 1962)
-
Forwarned
comic story / 7 pages
- Job Number
- A-3452
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Becoming an overnight sensation, novelist Shelby Noor's books were bought before the ink dried...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Number One [Shelby Noor]; Number Two; Number Three; Detective Chief Howard Leeds; Hasgood Ames; Redbow; the Turk
- Synopsis
- Shelby Noor wrote 4 books that described crimes that had either just been committed or would occur shortly after the book appeared.
- Reprints
- from Strange Suspense Stories (Charlton, 1955 series) #70 (May 1964)
-
Indexer Notes
Title has spelling error, should be "Forewarned".
Space Narcosis
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- A-3065
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It was madness... he knew that it wasn't possible to wipe out an entire enemy fleet but he'd been too long in the outer reaches of space...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Earthman; Female captain of enemy space fleet
- Synopsis
- A lone Earthman fends off an attack from another world.
- Reprints
- from Space Adventures (Charlton, 1958 series) #56 (March 1964)
-
The Brain People
comic story / 6 pages
- Job Number
- A-2829
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- In the year 1983, from Washington, and from Moscow, the leaders of each of the world's great powers took off in planes for a meeting of utmost importance to the fate of the world...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Medulla; Soviet Premier Akim; U.S. President David
- Synopsis
- On the way to a conference in Geneva, both the Soviet Premier and the U.S. President dream of a threat from another planet.
- Reprints
- from Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds (Charlton, 1956 series) #41 (May 1964)
-
The Many Traps of Baron Mordo!
Doctor Strange / comic story / 8 pages
- Job Number
- X-557
- Genre
- superhero; fantasy-supernatural
- Reprints
- from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #117 (February 1964)
-
But for Bluey
text story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- When I tell you my name is George Morrison then I am certain you will recognize me.
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- George Morrison; Helen Witlow; Joe Witlow; Bluey
- Synopsis
- George is rescued from a drifting fishing boat, thanks to his cat.
- Reprints
- from Strange Suspense Stories (Charlton, 1955 series) #36 (March 1958)
-
Big Deal
comic story / 3 pages
- Job Number
- 5244
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Over and over again, Hugh Tenant told himself that a dream is a dream, no matter how real it may seam!
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Hugh Tenant
- Synopsis
- A man dreams of a disaster in the air.
- Reprints
- from Outer Space (Charlton, 1958 series) #23 (July 1959)
-
The Earth Snatchers
comic story / 6 pages
- Job Number
- A-3221
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- All was serene on our war-torn planet...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Miss Dillon; Commander Kern; Kurtz; Captain Edwards
- Synopsis
- Aliens move the Earth to orbit near their planet to strip its resources.
- Reprints
- from Space Adventures (Charlton, 1958 series) #55 (January 1964)
-
The Man Who Became the Torch!
Human Torch / comic story / 13 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (co-plot, script); Dick Ayers (co-plot, un-credited)
- Pencils
- Dick Ayers
- Inks
- Dick Ayers
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- X-593
- Genre
- superhero
- Reprints
- from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #118 (March 1964)
-
Strange World
comic story / 3 pages
- Job Number
- A-1253
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Our scientists have never recorded the existence of a world like this!
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Colonel Peter Randolph
- Synopsis
- A test pilot visits Atlantis, but has his memories erased.
- Reprints
- from Space War (Charlton, 1959 series) #19 (November 1962)
-
Time Dimension
comic story / 6 pages
- Job Number
- A-3045
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The man you see above is Captain Bob Ellis, an experimental space pilot!
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Captain Bob Ellis
- Synopsis
- A test pilot accidentally kills his own ancestors.
- Reprints
- from Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds (Charlton, 1956 series) #41 (May 1964)
-
African Game
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction; jungle
- Reprints
- from Danger and Adventure (Charlton, 1955 series) #25 (August 1955)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[A Look at a Backward Planet!]
-
1.
A Look at a Backward Planet
-
2.
Forwarned
-
3.
Space Narcosis
-
4.
The Brain People
-
5.
The Many Traps of Baron Mordo!
Doctor Strange -
6.
But for Bluey
-
7.
Big Deal
-
8.
The Earth Snatchers
-
9.
The Man Who Became the Torch!
Human Torch -
10.
Strange World
-
11.
Time Dimension
-
12.
African Game
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Guy Budziak
- Paul Robinson
- Karsten S.
- Ramon Schenk
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.