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Planet Comics, Issue #1

Publisher: Fiction House

Series Title: Planet Comics Vol: 1

Issue: #1


Publish Date: January 1940
type: cover
Title: The One-Eyed Monsters of Mars
Genre: science fiction
Pencils: Lou Fine
Inks: Lou Fine
Cover Characters: Flint Baker
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Planet Comics #1

Art Details

Artist: Lou Fine (All)
Media Type: Pen and Ink
Art Type: Cover
For Sale Status: NFS
Views: 2382
Comments: 18
Added to Site: 6/13/2017

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Member Since: August 2007

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Issue Breakdown

Type Title Creators Characters Synopsis
cover The One-Eyed Monsters of Mars Pencils: Lou Fine
Inks: Lou Fine
Flint Baker
advertisement Read About This Amazing Free Offer Pencils: Leo Morey
Inks: Leo Morey
Letters: typeset
comic story The One-Eyed Monster Men from Mars Pencils: Dick Briefer (signed)
Inks: Dick Briefer (signed)
Fletcher "Flint" Baker (introduction, origin); Harry Parks (freed convict, introduction); Phil Godwin (freed convict, introduction); Cliff Grant (freed convict, introduction, death); Mimi Wilson (New York Globe reporter, introduction); King of Mars [aka the Ruler of Ru] (introduction); Princess Viga (the King's daughter, introduction); Sarko (villain, introduction, death); Sarko's monster horde (villains, many die) Flint has completed the rocket ship begun by his father and is ready to take off for Mars, but first has three prison convicts freed to serve as his crew. They land on Mars and find the corpse of a former explorer, who left a letter warning anyone finding his note to stay away from the dark side of Mars.
comic story Pencils: Malcolm Kildale
Inks: Malcolm Kildale
Auro [Hardwich] (introduction, origin); Tara (pet saber-tooth tiger); Professor John Hardwich (Auro's father, introduction, death); Mrs. John Hardwich (Auro's mother, introduction, death); Martha Gale (an assistant pilot, introduiction); King of Neptune (villain, introduction) After a rocket ship crash that kills his parents, Auro is raised by a saber-tooth tiger. He is approached by a young woman named Martha to help save her friends who have been taken as slaves by the fiendish ruler of Neptune.
comic story Pencils: Ken Jackson (signed)
Inks: Ken Jackson ?
The Red Comet (introduction); un-named police captain (introduction); The Munitions King [J.G.] (villain, introduction, death); Munition King's war-profiteers (villains, introduction for all, all die) While the public is amazed and elated that no crimes have been committed for two weeks, the police feel that their jobs are less secure because of the crime busting activities of the Red Comet. His magical powers seem to draw him like a magnet to the criminal element, and he has rounded them up with amazing speed, taking each to a different uninhabited but inhabitable planet and dropping them off to fend for themselves.
comic story Pencils: Alex Blum [as Alex Boon] (signed)
Inks: Alex Blum [as Alex Boon] (signed)
Captain Nelson Cole (introduction); Bud (Cole's sidekick, introduction); unnamed President of the Solar Congress; Zan (villain, dictator of Volcus, introduction); Zan's woman (villain, introduction); Zan's Army of robots (villains, introduction for all) The loss of several Solar Ships forces the President of the Solar Congress to appoint Captain Cole to lead a force against the enemies from outer space. They are captured and the dictator, Zan, intends to turn them into dehumanized robots.
comic story The War Lords of the Moon Pencils: Henry Kiefer
Inks: Henry Kiefer
Spurt Hammond (introduction); The Lunerzons (villains, women warriors, introduction for all); The Mooniacs (villains, introduction for all) Spurt and his companions must fend off the attacks of the Luzerons, who occupy the polar regions of the Moon, and who are in the business of robbing interplanetary transports.
comic story Script: ? [as Bob Jordan] (credited) Buzz Crandall (introduction); Dr. Curan (scientist, introduction); Nancy Curan (Dr. Curan's daughter, introduction); The Sharkmen (villains, introduction, death) Buzz and his crew must face the Sharkmen, semi-intelligent living under the murky waters of Neptune, who have captured Dr. Curan and other members of his Neptune expedition.
comic story The Man Who Stole a World! Pencils: Alvin Charles [as Albert Charles] (signed)
Inks: Alvin Charles [as Albert Charles] (signed)
Quorak (villain, Earth scientist, introduction); Lt. Gary Blake (introduction); Dean (astronomer, introduction); Joan Perry (introduction, radio operator, only appearance); unnamed world president (introduction) A former Earth scientist takes up residence on a far distant planetoid and threatens to rule the universe, destroying all traces of civilization. His first target is Pluto, which he attempts to pull from its orbit with his strange infra-red ray invention.
promo (ad from the publisher) Pencils: Lou Fine; Will Eisner
Inks: Lou Fine
Letters: typeset
advertisement Script: ? (ad copy)
Letters: typeset

 

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