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Issue: Space Adventures #2 Public Domain
Publication Date: September 1952
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Issues: #2 of 21 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagCharlton
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Charlton Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 9 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Alfred Fago
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: full color
Dimensions: Standard Silver Age U.S
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was ongoing
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[untitled]

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In Issue: FlagSpace Adventures #53 published January 1954
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Pages: 1
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Talk About Speed

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Genres: informational, non-fiction, science and technology
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In Content Item: FlagSpace Adventures #17 published July 1955
as Talk about Speed [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Operation Pluto

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Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Rex Clive and His Space Officers
Character(s): Rex Clive; Speed Lansing; Wix; Gurkus; Queen Anyana
Synopsis: Queen Anyana is leader of the country of Delonia on the planet Pluto. Two space traders, Wix and Gurkus, have taken over Delonia. The Space Rangers, including Rex Clive and Speed Lansing, are sent with their scoutcrafts in the cargo hold of a massive ship called the Solario, it is threatened by Wix, the self-proclaimed ruler of Pluto. Wix blows up the Solario, unleashing the Space Rangers on the would-be despot's ragtag group of spacecraft. The Space Rangers handily destroy Wix's fleet. Things work out as well for Gurkus as the failed Wix. Rex and Speed are welcomed to Pluto by Queen Anyana.
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In Content Item: FlagSuper Giant Album #23 published January 1976
as Operation Pluto [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 8
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Trouble on Phobos

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Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Space Officers
Character(s): Speed Lansing; Bob Barry; Captain Norgo
Synopsis: Captain Norgo is attempting to smuggle a powerful alcohol called Fluvia to Mercury, where Fluvia is illegal. Space Rangers Barry and Jones investigate his ship, but are locked in the cargo hold. They dump Fluvia from the cargo into the ship's engines. The Fluvia causes the ship to veer from course. It is then intercepted by Adjutant Lansing.
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The Graveyard of the Sky

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Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Rex Clive
Character(s): Tyranno; Fodor; Rex Clive; Stella Dawn
Synopsis: Tyranno, with his assistant Fodor, operates a plan to take over the governorship of the planetary system from one of Jupiter's moons, Ganymede. To do so, he uses radar to trick the Staritania to Jupiter. Rex Clive concocts a means by which the Star Rangers can escape Jupiter's heavy gravity with the Staritania. The Space Rangers permanently subdue Tyranno when they blow up his spacecraft.
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Down to Earth

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Genres: science fiction
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Revolt of the Robots

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Jak Barv; Maida Barv; Greg Dant
Synopsis: Newlyweds Jak and Maida Barv go to Decima, the tenth moon of Jupiter, to run an iron mine. They are alone except for the robot labor force. Jak's assistant, Greg Dant, left before they arrived. A robot tries to kidnap Maida, forcing Jak to attempt to fight it off. The robots get belligerent. Jak must fight for them. Jak hears Maida cry for help as she is kidnapped by a robot. He runs to save her. Throwing a large boulder at a robot, Jak finds out that Greg Dant is disguised in the robot skin. He controlled the robots by shortwave. Dant had found gold and attempted to get rid of the Marvs.
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The Smugglers of Callisto

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Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): The Space Officers
Character(s): Commodore Rex Clive; Adjutant Speed Lansing; Bob Barry; Jim Jones; Captain Cypol; Soq; Kara-Soq's daughter
Synopsis: The Space Rangers run across a scheme by Soq to steal methane shipments from Jupiter. The unmanned cargo craft seemingly explode in the asteroid belt, yet Soq and his daughter Kara are behind it.
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The Land of Perpetual Light

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Genres: informational, non-fiction, science and technology
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: inside back cover

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