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Issue: Pre-Code Classics: Tom Corbett, Space Cadet #1
Publication Date: March 2017
 
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Publisher: FlagPS
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Indicia Publisher: PS Artbooks Ltd.
On Sale Date: 2017
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Pages: 244
ISBN: 9781786360564
UPC/EAN: 978178636056455999
Price: $59.99 USD
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Content Items: 33 (7 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: 7.25" x 10.5"
Paper Stock: Glossy
Binding: Hardcover
Publishing Format: Limited Series
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Tom Corbett
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Tom Corbett; Roger Manning
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Front end pages. The publisher enlarged and cropped the cover of Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #421 and used the image to create the end pages for the hardcover collection.
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Pre Code Classics: Tom Corbett, Space Cadet Volume One

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Space Academy the University of the Planets!
Located in the United States of America, a member nation of the Commonwealth of Earth...
Brief description of the Space Academy and its mission of training Space Cadets to become Solar Guards.
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Training Flight to Titan

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Tom Corbett; Astro; Roger Manning; Commander Awkright; Captain Strong; Dr. Joan Dale
In the year 2351, Commander Arkwright and Captain Strong stand on the observation platform...
In the year 2351, Captain Strong and three Space Cadets, Tom Corbett, Astro, and Roger Manning, are sent on a training mission to Titan, Saturn's largest moon. The quartet must convince the inhabitants of Titan that they aren't spies from Earth, planning to take the radioactive ore that provides life-sustaining heat to their cities.
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Introduction to series. Script credit from Robin Snyder, taken from Paul S. Newman's personal records. (July 22, 2007)
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Mars

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Space Scene

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Scene of rocket blasting off from crater-marked moon, with Saturn in the background.
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Space Academy: the University of the Planets!
Tom Corbett (photo of Frankie Thomas); Astro the Venusian (photo of Al Markim); Roger Manning (photo of Jan Merlin)
Upon entering Space Academy, every cadet pledges his life and career to the service of mankind!
The Space Cadet pledge is listed.
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Space Pirates of Mercury

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Tom Corbett; Roger Manning; Astro the Venusian; Alfie Higgins; Capt. Steve Strong; Dr. Dale; Commander Awkright
The usual day of study is interrupted at Space Academy...
The Space Cadets are on a training mission on the passenger spaceliner "Prince of Centurus" when it is attacked and boarded by space pirates. The pirates take the cargo and also take the passengers and crew to work in the mines of Mercury. Tom, Astro, and Roger secretly slip back into the crippled and abandoned spaceliner and send a distress call that is picked up by the Solar Guard patrol. Commander Arkwright then uses the rescued cadets to spring a trap on the pirates.
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Tom Corbett; Roger Manning
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Pencils, inks, and colors credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
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Space Academy

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Space Academy the University of the Planets!
Tom Corbett (photo of Frankie Thomas); Astro the Venusian (photo of Al Markin); Roger Manning (photo of Jan Merlin); Alfie Higgins (photo of John Fiedler)
Academy classroom photo from TV show.
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Reprint of inside front cover of Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #421; black and white. One photo and typeset text.
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Colonists of Io

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Tom Corbett Space Cadet
Tom Corbett; Roger Manning; Astro the Venusian; Alfie Higgins; Commander Awkright; Capt. Steve Strong; Dr. Joan Dale
I don't have to tell you how long and dangerous a voyage to the planet Jupiter is!
A headstrong swashbuckler, Skip McKay, is in command of a spaceship of colonists bound for Jupiter's moon, Io. Capt. Strong and the cadets accompany them in a separate ship to see that the colony is set up according to law. The colonists make it to Io, but McKay discovers uranium there and causes trouble.
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Space Academy The University of the Planets

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Tom Corbett, Space Cadet
Tom Corbett; Captain Steve Strong; Cadet Roger Manning
Photo from Tom Corbett TV series.
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Tom Corbett; Cadet Astro; Cadet Roger Manning; Captain Strong; Professor Thornton; Commander Arkwright
Captain Steve Strong and his space cadet squad report the failure of their mission to the commander of the Solar Guard base on Mars!
Tom and the other cadets go in search of missing Professor Thornton and run into a Martian picpup (which can create illusions) and the Bor Borito's people.
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S.C.#4-3211
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Script credit from http://www.solarguard.com/tccomic.htm.

The artwork is identical to Lehti's series "Tommy of the Big Top".
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Space Academy The University of the Planets
Tom Corbett; Cadet Astro; Cadet Roger Manning; Captain Strong
Everything taught at Space Academy is checked and double-checked...
Photo from Tom Corbett, Space Cadet (1950, TV series) along with blurb about the story beginning on the next page.
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The Smugglers of the Moon

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Tom Corbett, Space Cadet
Tom Corbett; Cadet Astro; Cadet Roger Manning; Captain Strong
The cadets have to do an extra assignment which turns dangerous when Captain Strong is taken by smugglers, and they find an ancient civilization buried deep within the moon.
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S.C. #5 - 532
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Paul Newman credit http://www.solarguard.com/tccomic.htm

The artwork is identical to Lehti's series "Tommy of the Big Top."
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Space Academy University of the Planets
Tom Corbett; Captain Strong; Astro; Roger Manning
Full space equipment is used by cadets at training sessions.
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Tom Corbett; Cadet Astro; Cadet Roger Manning; Captain Strong; Professor Brillon; Cadet Alfie Higgins
Billions of miles beyond the farthest planet of the solar system, is the sun-star Alpha Centauri...
Tom and the rest of the cadets accompany scientists to the planet Tara where they find blue natives and giant ants.
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S.C. #6-535
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Script credit from http://www.solarguard.com/tccomic.htm

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Space Academy the University of the Planets
Tom Corbett (photo of Frankie Thomas, Jr.); Astro (photo of Al Markim); Roger Manning (photo of Jan Merlin); Captain Steve Strong (photo of Edward Bryce)
Space Cadets Tom Corbett, Astro, Roger Manning...
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The Space Traitor

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Tom Corbett; Astro; Roger Manning; Captain Steve Strong; Bob Keen
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T.C.#7-538
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The artwork is identical to Lehti's series "Tommy of the Big Top."
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Harvey Horrors Bookshop Editions

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Promo for Harvey Horrors collected editions. Reprints 15 covers from various Harvey titles.
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Pre Code Classics

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Roy Thomas Presents

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Alter Ego
If you love Golden & Silver Age comics, get an Alter Ego
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Ad for the Alter Ego fanzine with a photo of Roy Thomas, reproductions of five covers from the fanzine along with the blurb for the fanzine.
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Tom Corbett
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Back end pages. Publisher enlarged and cropped a copy of the cover of Tom Corbett, Space Cadet (Dell, 1953 series) #6 to create the end pages image.
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Tom Corbett, Space Cadet
Featuring Alden McWilliams
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Back cover promo for this collected edition. Features reprints of the covers of the seven comic books reprinted in this collected edition along with a blurb for the book.

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