Planet Comics
#47
(March 1947)
Fiction House,
1940 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- Every other month
- On-sale Date
- 1946-12-10
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Love Romances Pub. Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
Fiction House Magazines
- Editing
- Jack Byrne (credited as J. F. Byrne) (managing editor); Thurman Scott (credited as T. T. Scott) (president, business manager)
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.
According to the Statement of Ownership, there's no Editor.
According to the Statement of Ownership, there's no Editor.
[no title indexed]
The Lost World / comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- ? [as Thornecliffe Herrick] (signed)
- Pencils
- Lily Renee (signed)
- Inks
- Lily Renee (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- That video broadcast in which you saw two...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Hunt Bowman; Peter (introduction, death); The Voltamen (villains)
[no title indexed]
Futura / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- On Earth she was nobody--a mere B-minus...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Futura [Marcia Reynolds]; Jarl Zeo (introduction); Guest Star: Aborotes; Mentor (villain); Cymradians (villains)
The Great Green Spawn
Auro Lord of Jupiter / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ? [as Dick Charles] (signed)
- Pencils
- George Evans (signed)
- Inks
- George Evans (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Many are the strange men and semi-men who...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Auro Lord of Jupiter; Guest Star: Dorna; Zago (villain, as a brain, death)
Indexer Notes
The story title is taken from the cover blurb.
Mystery of the Asteroids
Life On Other Worlds / comic story / 0.67 page
- Genre
- science fiction
Indexer Notes
One third of the page is occupied by the Ownership Statement.
[no title indexed]
statement of ownership / 0.33 page
- Script
- Jack Byrne (credited) (managing editor)
- Letters
- typeset
[no title indexed]
Space Rangers / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ? [as Hugh Fitzhugh] (signed)
- Pencils
- Bob Lubbers
- Inks
- Bob Lubbers; George Evans
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- A routine investigation of a routine case. A...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- The Space Rangers [Flint Baker; Reef Ryan]; Guest Stars: Hercules; Mary; Xando (villain, introduction, death); the Robosapiens (villains, introduction, death)
[no title indexed]
Mysta of the Moon / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It was a precious metal Mysta sought...invaluable for...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Mysta of the Moon; Guest Stars: Bron II; Lorin (introduction, death); Ohma and the Swampmen of Venus (introduction); Rekor (villain, introduction, death)
- Synopsis
- Mysta and Bron head for the Swamps of Venus to obtain a new supply of Platine, a metal needed to power the Vita-Electroid they have created.
- Reprints
-
in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #82 ([June] 2010) - in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #366 - Mysta of the Moon ([March] 2017)
-
Indexer Notes
Bill Black verifies the art to be by Larsen, and not Charles Sultan as once listed.
[no title indexed]
Star Pirate / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ? [as Len Dodson] (signed)
- Pencils
- Murphy Anderson (signed)
- Inks
- Murphy Anderson (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Into the gloomy mists of dread Kalendos plunges...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Star Pirate; Lily (introduction); Moro (villain, introduction); Dazo (villain, introduction); Humanoids (villains, introduction); Mound Tritons (villains, introduction)
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
The Great Green Spawn
Auro Lord of Jupiter -
1.
["That video broadcast in which you saw two..."]
The Lost World -
2.
["On Earth she was nobody--a mere B-minus..."]
Futura -
3.
[no title indexed]
The Vizigraph -
4.
The Great Green Spawn
Auro Lord of Jupiter -
5.
Mystery of the Asteroids
Life On Other Worlds -
6.
[no title indexed]
-
7.
["A routine investigation of a routine case. A..."]
Space Rangers -
8.
Was Earth a Colony of Venus?
-
9.
["It was a precious metal Mysta sought...invaluable for..."]
Mysta of the Moon -
10.
["Into the gloomy mists of dread Kalendos plunges..."]
Star Pirate
This issue was modified by, among others
- Peter Croome
- Craig Delich
- Gregory Fischer
- Del Gruber
- Michael Hoskin
- Mike Nielsen
- Patrick Shaughnessy
- Henry Steele, Hames Ware, Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. (R.I.P.)
- Len Wolinsky
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