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Issue: Planet Comics #48

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Publication Date: May 1947

Issue #48
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Issues: #48 of 73 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Fiction House

Brand: Fiction House Magazines

Indicia Publisher: Love Romances Pub. Co., Inc.

On Sale Date: 01/29/1947

Volume: none

Pages: 52

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency: Every other month

Content Items: 9 (7 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): J. F. Byrne (managing editor)

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.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: Color

Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S.

Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior

Binding: Saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series

Format Notes:

Reprinted In2

2 Content Items
- Experiment Existence [Story on Interior Page(s)]1
- [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]1

reprinted 2 times as Content Items in other Issues.

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Title Page

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Cover, Front

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Cover, Front

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Content Items (9 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): Joe Doolin

Inker(s): Joe Doolin

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Feature(s): Mysta of the Moon

Character(s): Mysta of the Moon

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Thornecliffe Herrick] (credited)

Penciller(s): Lily Renee [as L. Ren] (signed)

Inker(s): Lily Renee [as L. Ren] (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Feature(s): The Lost World

Character(s): Guest Stars: Bruce; Ruk (a Venusian; intro); Villains: Voltamen

First Line: Earth, once proud symbol of highest civilization of...

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 10

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as John Douglas]

Penciller(s): Chester Martin

Inker(s): Chester Martin

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Feature(s): Futura

Character(s): Futura [Marcia Reynolds]; Villains: Iontra (death); Mentor

First Line: In the Cymrad laboratories the great experiment goes...

Synopsis: The origin of Futura is retold in a flashback.

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Experiment Existence

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Dick Charles] (credited)

Penciller(s): George Evans

Inker(s): George Evans; John Celardo

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Feature(s): Auro Lord of Jupiter

Character(s): Auro Lord of Jupiter; Guest Star: Dorna; Villains: A monster in Chet Edson's body (intro; death); Saturo (intro; death); Kopa (intro; death?)

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Thrilling Science Fiction #2 published January 1999
as Experiment Existence [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Notes: Celardo inks are evident throughout, especially on many of the faces (see panel seven of page two as a perfect example).

Future Facts

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Thornecliffe Herrick]

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 3

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Hugh Fitzhugh]

Penciller(s): Frank Doyle

Inker(s): Frank Doyle

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Feature(s): Space Rangers

Character(s): The Space Rangers [Flint Baker]; Guest Stars: Hercules; Villains: Gor (intro; death); Venusians (intro)

First Line: Starry-eyed colonists, with visions of a new...

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Notes: Reef Ryan is not in this story.

[untitled]

Letters Page on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): The Vizigraph

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Ross Gallun]

Penciller(s): Fran Hopper (signed)

Inker(s): Fran Hopper (signed); ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Feature(s): Mysta of the Moon

Character(s): Mysta of the Moon; Guest Star: Bron II; Villains: Lara (intro; death); Drakon (intro; death); Rithor (intro)

First Line: Vote Humanist! Elect the scientist candidates! Such were...

Synopsis: The Humanist political party is blamed for terrorist attacks, but Mysta discovers that they are being framed by their opponents. She fakes her own death to go undercover and expose the plot.

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Golden-Age Greats #6 published January 1995
as The Scientist Election [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

Notes: Notice the use of a screen of black as a "shade" of color.
The character Lara in this story is not the same Lara as in the story two issues earlier.

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Len Dodson] (credited)

Penciller(s): Murphy Anderson [as Anderson] (signed)

Inker(s): Murphy Anderson [as Anderson] (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Feature(s): Star Pirate

Character(s): I: Valdina; V: Bruno (I, D), Flame People and Ice People of Mercury (I for all)

First Line: The loot-bins of Star Pirate, laughing bandit...

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 7