(May 1951)

Ziff-Davis, 1950 Series
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Price
0.10 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
bi-monthly
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Ziff-Davis Publishing Company
Brand
A Ziff-Davis Comic
Editing
Jerry Siegel

Issue Notes

Parts of this issue are reprinted:

Monsters of Living Flame (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Allen Anderson (painting)
Inks
Allen Anderson (painting)
Colors
Allen Anderson (painting)
Letters
typeset

Genre
science fiction

Indexer Notes

Cover painting credit of Allen Anderson from Joe Lovece via his posting to Comic Books: The Golden Age page on Facebook (16 April 2016). Previously credited to Alex Schomburg.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

Cosmic Comics / cartoon / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Harry Sahle
Inks
Harry Sahle
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Sometimes I wonder if I know what I'm doing!
Genre
humor; science fiction

Indexer Notes

On the inside front cover. Sequence added via the GCD Error Tracker by Ger Apeldoorn, who notes that this installment is not signed, but looks like the installment in the previous issue signed by Sahle.

Monsters of Living Flame! (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Arthur Peddy
Inks
Bernard Sachs
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
science fiction
Characters
John Haljan (pilot of an Earth-Moom mailship); Professor Grant
Synopsis
Joh Haljan and his companions search the mysterious fire planet for precious Uranium-X, which the United States needs for its atomic bomb.
Keywords
Uranium-X

Exhibit One (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Alex Schomburg
Inks
Alex Schomburg
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
science fiction

Indexer Notes

Cover story.

The Warning! (Table of Contents: 4)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Letters
typeset

Genre
science fiction

Wedding Gift (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Murphy Anderson
Inks
Murphy Anderson
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
science fiction

The Steel Monster (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
science fiction

Indexer Notes

The concept of the story is swiped from Theodore Sturgeon's famous science fiction story "Killdozer," which first appeared in Astounding Science Fiction pulp magazine in 1944. (James Walls, 2005-03-28, Per Sandell ed.)

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Monsters of Living Flame
  2. 1. ["Sometimes I wonder if I know what I'm doing!"]
    Cosmic Comics
  3. 2. Monsters of Living Flame!
  4. 3. Exhibit One
  5. 4. The Warning!
  6. 5. Wedding Gift
  7. 6. The Steel Monster
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Ray Bottorff Jr
  • Craig Delich
  • Michael Hoskin
  • Donald Dale Milne
  • Kevin Olson
  • Gene Reed (R.I.P.)
  • Per Sandell
  • Jim Van Dore
  • Jim Walls