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Planet Comics

(1940 Series) January 1940 to Winter 1953 Issues published: 73 (#1-73) <b>Still fiche or GM: 6-8,11,13,15 Some fiche pages: 2,4,12,17,20,24,41</b> Featured art by such prominent artists as Will Eisner and Lou Fine. Debuting in January of 1940, Planet Comics was a comic book spin-off of Planet Stories, a pulp science fiction magazine. The focus of both Planet Comics and Planet Stories was space opera: powerful young men, beautiful and scantily clad young women, ray guns, space ships, and plenty of technobabble. Planet Comics started off as a monthly book then, perhaps because of paper rationing during World War 2 dropped down to a bimonthly title. Towards the end of the 1940s, Planet Comics was reduced again, this time to a quarterly title. Unfortunately, things didn&#39;t improve from there. For three years, 1950, 1951, and 1952, Planet Comics was released annually. After 1952, the title returned to a quarterly release schedule but the last nail was already in the coffin. The final issue of Planet Comics was number 73, released in the winter of 1953-54

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