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Issue: Planet Comics #5 Public Domain
Publication Date: May 1940
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Disclose Detail
Issues: #5 of 73 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagFiction House
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Love Romances Pub. Co., Inc.
On Sale Date: 03/19/1940
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 14 (11 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Malcolm Reiss (editor); Will Eisner [as William E. Eisner] (art director); S. M. Iger (feature editor)
Disclose 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.
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Disclose 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:  
Disclose Reprinted In17
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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Original Artwork
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Title Page
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Will Eisner
Inker(s): Will Eisner
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Flint Baker
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In Issue: FlagAction! Mystery! Thrills! Comic Book Covers of the Golden Age: 1933-45 #[nn] published December 2011
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: HS suggests that perhaps Powell had some input here.
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Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: $50.00 given away free
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover. A page offering $50 total for the 32 best responses to four questions.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Beekman Terrill]
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Captain Nelson Cole
Character(s): Morgo (villain, introduction, death); Zirgo (villain, introduction, death); The president of Earth (introduction); Nelson Cole
First Line: A treacherous plot to throw the whole solar...
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagPlanet Comics #1 published July 1984
as The Phony War of Cato and Jupiter [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Fred Nelson]
Penciller(s): Bob Powell (signed)
Inker(s): Bob Powell (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Gale Allen of the Girls' Patrol
Character(s): Gale Allen; Jack North (guest-star); Prince Blaga Daru (villain, introduction)
First Line: In 1990 AD, Prince Blaga Daru, notorious interplanetary...
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: In the spirit of complete contrariety, this issue's cover lists this feature as "Gale Allen of the Women's Space Patrol."
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Allison Brant]
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Fero, Planet Detective
Character(s): Fero (introduction); A werewolf from Pluto (villain, introduction, death); vampire from Pluto (villain, introduction, death); Dr. John Wade (introduction); Phyllis Wade (his daughter, introduction)
First Line: Fero, scientist of the occult, super-detective of the...
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagPlanet Comics #1 published July 1984
as The Vampire from Pluto [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagPlanet Comics #4 published June 1998
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSupermen! The First Wave of Comic Book Heroes 1936-1941 #[nn] published February 2009
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Jed Ganey]
Penciller(s): Bob Powell; ?
Inker(s): Bob Powell ?; ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Auro, Lord of Jupiter
Character(s): June (introduction); other scientists (introduction); Auro
First Line: An expedition from Earth, searching for the strange...
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In Content Item: FlagPlanet Comics #1 published July 1984
as In the Jungles of Jupiter [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5.75
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Case 3: File 1: Clue 4

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bob Powell
Inker(s): Bob Powell
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Strange Case of Ezra Ark:
Character(s): Bull's-Eye Bannon; Ezra Ark
First Line: Called to the scene of Ezra Ark's death...
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In Content Item: FlagPlanet Comics #1 published July 1984
as Strange Case of Ezra Ark [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.25
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Thomas Marlen] (signed)
Penciller(s): Don Rico
Inker(s): Don Rico
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): The Red Comet
Character(s): The Red Comet; J. G. (villain, introduction, death); other warmongers (villains, introduction for all, all die)
First Line: One man, the Red Comet, mysterious adventurer against...
Synopsis: Red Comet exiles all criminals from Earth
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In Content Item: FlagPlanet Comics #1 published July 1984
as Crime Takes a Holiday! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Art credits verified via Rico interview in Alter Ego #114 (December 2012).
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Slave of the Lizard-Men

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Don Varick]
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Dexter Ames; Dr. Phillips; Gunner Hatch; lizard-men; unnamed giant humanoid
First Line: Captain Dexter Ames, guiding the spaceship Discoverer out of gloomy canyon walls for a survey of the mysterious planet...
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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The Doomed Universe

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Walt Scott]
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Space Admiral Curry
Character(s): Space Admiral Curry (introduction); the Universal President (introduction); Rocko (villain, introduction, death)
First Line: From an unknown universe, ominous, crafty creatures make a bold attempt to take the sun's vital energy away from Earth...
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In Content Item: FlagPlanet Comics #1 published July 1984
as The Doomed Universe [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagPlanet Comics #4 published June 1998
as The Doomed Universe [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Orson Herr]
Penciller(s): Henry Kiefer
Inker(s): Henry Kiefer
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Spurt Hammond
Character(s): Morono [king of Pluto] (villain, introduction); King Satius (introduction); his daughter (introduction); Spurt Hammond; Plutonians
First Line: American pilot of an interplanetary transport rocket is...
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagPlanet Comics #1 published July 1984
as The Idiots of Pluto [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagPlanet Comics #4 published June 1998
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagGolden Comics #3 published ?
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Bob Jordan]
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Buzz Crandall of the Space Patrol
Character(s): The flower people of an asteroid (villains, introduction, death); Headless men of the asteroid (introduction); Buzz Crandall; Sandra Curan
First Line: Trapped on a weird planet, ruled by insane...
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagPlanet Comics #1 published July 1984
as Slaves of the Flower People [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWings Comics #2 published January 1997
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagPlanet Comics #4 published June 1998
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Adventures on a New World

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Starr Gayza]
Penciller(s): Arthur Peddy
Inker(s): Arthur Peddy
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Flint Baker
Character(s): The Grangonians (villains); Mimi Wilson (guest-star); Flint Baker
First Line: Flint Baker, pioneer space explorer, and his news reporter friend, Mimi, have just rocketed from the Earth--
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In Content Item: FlagPlanet Comics #1 published July 1984
as Adventures on a New World [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Jupitor] (sic)
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Planet Puns
Character(s): Mr. Goldbucks
First Line: No, you're not on another planet, Mr. Goldbucks.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: These appear to be reprints of earlier gag cartoons which have been recaptioned to serve as science fiction-themed puns.

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