Planet Comics
#41
(March 1946)
Fiction House,
1940 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- Monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1945-12-28
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Love Romances Pub. Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
Fiction House Magazines
- Editing
- Jack Byrne (credited) (managing editor)
Issue Notes
The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Vol. 1, Part 2, Nos. 1&2, Periodicals, 1946-1947.
Owners: Love Romances Publishing Company, Inc.; J. G. Scott
According to the Statement of Ownership, there's no editor.
Owners: Love Romances Publishing Company, Inc.; J. G. Scott
According to the Statement of Ownership, there's no editor.
Creatures of the Mind World
text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
Indexer Notes
Printed on inside covers.
[no title indexed]
The Lost World / comic story / 8.6 pages
- Script
- ? [as Thornecliffe Herrick] (credited)
- Pencils
- Lily Renee [as L. Renee] (signed)
- Inks
- Lily Renee [as L. Renee] (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- There it stood, grim and brooding symbol of...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Lyssa; Hunt; Voltamen (villains); Dr. Schultz (introduction, dies)
- Synopsis
- Hunt and Lyssa are trying to escape some Voltamen and discover Dr. Schultz, so they enlist his aid in destroying a Volta power station.
- Reprints
-
in Planet Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #70 ([Spring] 1953) - in Planet Comics (I. W. Publishing; Super Comics, 1958 series) #1 (1958?)
- in The Comics Journal (Fantagraphics, 1977 series) #279 (November 2006)
- in Planet Comics (Wagon Wheel Comics, 2020 series) #1 (December 2020)
-
Indexer Notes
Synopsis and character information from Donald Dale Milne, 10/13/2006.
[no title indexed]
statement of ownership / 0.4 page
- Script
- Jack Byrne (credited) (managing editor)
- Letters
- typeset
[no title indexed]
Gale Allen / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- There was nothing to fear--nothing Gale could...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Gale Allen; Itecs (introduction, villains); Lor [Itec High Priest] (introduction, dies)
- Synopsis
- The planet Itec has returned to its orbit after being lost for aeons, and is now capturing spaceships. Gale is mistaken for a legendary queen and manages to hypnotize Lor.
- Reprints
- in Planet Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #70 ([Spring] 1953)
- in Planet Comics (I. W. Publishing; Super Comics, 1958 series) #1 (1958?)
-
Indexer Notes
Synopsis and character information from Donald Dale Milne, 10/13/2006.
[no title indexed]
Auro Lord of Jupiter / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ? [as Dick Charles] (credited)
- Pencils
- August Froehlich
- Inks
- August Froehlich; ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- 1965. Almost 20 years have passed since the...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- The new Auro (old Auro's body w/ mind & spirit of Chester Edson, introduction); Dorna (introduction, appears in all subsequent stories); Rogo (introduction and villain); Claudia (introduction); Nelson (introduction)
Revolt of the Insect World
illustration / 2 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- from Planet Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #21 (November 1942) [Art is from text feature "Will the Insects Conquer the World?" The text is a drastic condensation.]
-
[no title indexed]
Star Pirate / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ? [as Len Dodson] (credited)
- Pencils
- Murphy Anderson (signed)
- Inks
- Murphy Anderson (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Fer th' luvva luna, Star, head home! I'm...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Star; Blackbeard; The Plastimen (introduction, villains)
- Synopsis
- Star takes a spaceship of male colonists to a forgotten world populated only by women. People age very slowly there and the colonists decide to stay on with the women, while Star and Blackbeard continue to roam the universe.
- Reprints
- in Planet Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #70 ([Spring] 1953)
- in Planet Comics (I. W. Publishing; Super Comics, 1958 series) #1 (1958?)
-
Indexer Notes
Synopsis and character information from Donald Dale Milne, 10/13/2006.
[no title indexed]
Mysta of the Moon / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Alone in her citadel of science, she calmly...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- The "Hand-Master" (introduction, villain, dies); Rogers (introduction, dies); Prof. Brown (dies)
- Synopsis
- Mysta goes undercover to find a villain who has discovered a way to control the movement of people's hands against their will.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
The cover title and image are unrelated to this story.
[no title indexed]
Space Rangers / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- What a cargo! Reef rubbed his hands at...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Reef Ryan; Flint Baker; Huldane (villain, introduction, dies); Igor
- Synopsis
- Huldan escapes prison posing as a robot in a load of others being delivered by Reef. Flint follows and together they thwart a plot of Huldane's to transform women into plant-being slaves.
- Reprints
- in Planet Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #70 ([Spring] 1953)
- in Planet Comics (I. W. Publishing; Super Comics, 1958 series) #1 (1958?)
-
Indexer Notes
Art is probably by the same artist as drew this feature in issue #40. Synopsis and character information from Donald Dale Milne, 10/13/2006.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Medusa Men from Mars
Mysta of the Moon -
1.
Creatures of the Mind World
-
2.
["There it stood, grim and brooding symbol of..."]
The Lost World -
3.
[no title indexed]
-
4.
["There was nothing to fear--nothing Gale could..."]
Gale Allen -
5.
["1965. Almost 20 years have passed since the..."]
Auro Lord of Jupiter -
6.
Revolt of the Insect World
-
7.
["Fer th' luvva luna, Star, head home! I'm..."]
Star Pirate -
8.
["Alone in her citadel of science, she calmly..."]
Mysta of the Moon -
9.
["What a cargo! Reef rubbed his hands at..."]
Space Rangers
This issue was modified by, among others
- Dwayne Best
- Keith Chandler
- Peter Croome
- Del Gruber
- Michael Hoskin
- Dan Kocher
- Donald Dale Milne
- Mike Nielsen
- Steven Samuels
- Patrick Shaughnessy
- Henry Steele, Hames Ware, Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. (R.I.P.)
- Jim Van Dore
- Len Wolinsky
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