Digital Comic Museum - Planet Comics 005 [paper]


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Not my scans! From paper.

Issue: #5
Published: May 1940, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing: Malcolm Reiss (editor); Will Eisner [as William E. Eisner] (art director); S. M. Iger (feature editor)
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: On sale date from the publication date found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, 1940, Number 2. Second class permit. Copyright number 453477.

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)	none
Featuring:	Flint Baker
Credits:	Pencils: Will Eisner \| Inks: Will Eisner
Genre:	Science Fiction

Activity (1 page)
Credits:	Letters: typeset

Comic Story (13 pages)
Featuring:	Captain Nelson Cole
Credits:	Script: ? [as Beekman Terrill]
Genre:	Science Fiction
Characters:	Morgo (villain, Introduction, Death) Zirgo (villain, Introduction, Death) The President Of Earth (introduction) Nelson Cole

Comic Story (4 pages)
Featuring:	Gale Allen of the Girls' Patrol
Credits:	Script: ? [as Fred Nelson] \| Pencils: Bob Powell (signed) \| Inks: Bob Powell (signed)
Genre:	Science Fiction
Characters:	Gale Allen Jack North (guest-star) Prince Blaga Daru (villain, Introduction)

Comic Story (5 pages)
Featuring:	Fero, Planet Detective
Credits:	Script: ? [as Allison Brant]
Genre:	Science Fiction
Characters:	Fero (introduction) A Werewolf From Pluto (villain, Introduction, Death) Vampire From Pluto (villain, Introduction, Death) Dr. John Wade (introduction) Phyllis Wade (his Daughter, Introduction)

Comic Story (6 pages)
Featuring:	Auro, Lord of Jupiter
Credits:	Script: ? [as Jed Ganey] \| Pencils: Bob Powell; ? \| Inks: Bob Powell ?; ?
Genre:	Science Fiction
Characters:	June (introduction) Other Scientists (introduction) Auro

Comic Story (0 pages)	Case 3: File 1: Clue 4
Featuring:	Strange Case of Ezra Ark:
Credits:	Pencils: Bob Powell \| Inks: Bob Powell
Genre:	Detective-mystery
Characters:	Bull's-Eye Bannon Ezra Ark

Comic Story (5 pages)
Featuring:	The Red Comet
Synopsis:	Red Comet exiles all criminals from Earth
Credits:	Script: ? [as Thomas Marlen] (signed) \| Pencils: Don Rico \| Inks: Don Rico
Genre:	Science Fiction
Characters:	The Red Comet J. G. (villain, Introduction, Death) Other Warmongers (villains, Introduction For All, All Die)

Text Story (2 pages)	Slave of the Lizard-Men
Credits:	Script: ? [as Don Varick] \| Letters: typeset
Genre:	Science Fiction
Characters:	Dexter Ames Dr. Phillips Gunner Hatch Lizard-men Unnamed Giant Humanoid

Comic Story (8 pages)	The Doomed Universe
Featuring:	Space Admiral Curry
Credits:	Script: ? [as Walt Scott]
Genre:	Science Fiction
Characters:	Space Admiral Curry (introduction) The Universal President (introduction) Rocko (villain, Introduction, Death)

Comic Story (7 pages)
Featuring:	Spurt Hammond
Credits:	Script: ? [as Orson Herr] \| Pencils: Henry Kiefer \| Inks: Henry Kiefer
Genre:	Science Fiction
Characters:	Morono [king Of Pluto] (villain, Introduction) King Satius (introduction) His Daughter (introduction) Spurt Hammond Plutonians

Comic Story (6 pages)
Featuring:	Buzz Crandall of the Space Patrol
Credits:	Script: ? [as Bob Jordan]
Genre:	Science Fiction
Characters:	The Flower People Of An Asteroid (villains, Introduction, Death) Headless Men Of The Asteroid (introduction) Buzz Crandall Sandra Curan

Comic Story (7 pages)	Adventures on a New World
Featuring:	Flint Baker
Credits:	Script: ? [as Starr Gayza] \| Pencils: Arthur Peddy \| Inks: Arthur Peddy
Genre:	Science Fiction
Characters:	The Grangonians (villains) Mimi Wilson (guest-star) Flint Baker

Cartoon (1 page)
Featuring:	Planet Puns
Credits:	Script: ? [as Jupitor] (sic)
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Mr. Goldbucks

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