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Issue: Space Busters #1 Public Domain
Publication Date: January 1952
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Issues: #1 of 2 Issues
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Publisher: FlagZiff-Davis
Brand: Ziff-Davis Comic GroupView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Approved 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: 13 (7 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Penciller(s): Norman Saunders (painting)
Inker(s): Norman Saunders (painting)
Colorist(s): Norman Saunders (painting)
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Genres: science fiction
First Line: Earth Fights Invasion from Outer Space!
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Disclose Notes: Art credit from David Saunders, Norman Saunders' son, via e-mail (January 6, 2008)
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First Line: At last!
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Empress of Belzar

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bernie Krigstein (signed) [as B. Krigstein]
Inker(s): Bernie Krigstein (signed) [as B. Krigstein]
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Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Space Busters
Character(s): Captain Brett Crockett; Lieutenant April Wing; Sergeant Bolo; Commander Senstral (Agent Y-3-Z); Empress of Belzar
Synopsis: Commander Senstral betrays his troops to the Belzaric Queen.
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Charge of the Battle Women

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Penciller(s): Bernie Krigstein
Inker(s): Bernie Krigstein
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Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Space Busters
Character(s): Captain Brett Crockett; Sergeant Bolo; Empress of Belzar; Helga; Lieutenant April Wing
Synopsis: Capt. Crockett persuades one of their captors to release the platoon and join them on Earth.
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The Man Who Invented Today

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Synopsis: Biography of Jules Verne.
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Death Rite of the Dwarfs

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bernie Krigstein
Inker(s): Bernie Krigstein
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Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Space Busters
Character(s): Captain Brett Crockett; Lieutenant April Wing; Sergeant Bolo; Lomax; Empress of Belzar; Senstral; Keno
Synopsis: When nurse Wing is captured by the dwarf troops of Belzar, Capt. Crockett joins with Martian partisans to prevent her sacrifice to the dwarfs' god, Wardo.
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Voyage to the Moon

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Penciller(s): Richard Case ?
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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Impey Barbicane; Captain Nicholl; Michael Arden
Synopsis: The Baltimore Gun Club initiates a voyage to the Moon.
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Disclose Notes: Adapted from Jules Verne's De la terre à la lune (1865) and Autour de la lune (1870).
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First Line: Thrills!
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Disclose Notes: Ad for Flyboy, Hawk, Space Busters, Speed Smith, Eerie Mysteries, Beanbags, Explorer Joe, Wild Boy, Kid Cowboy, Crime Clinic, Sparkle, Crusader from Mars, Ellery Queen, Weird Thrillers, and G I Joe.
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Taru the Terrible

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Penciller(s): Bernie Krigstein
Inker(s): Bernie Krigstein
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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Cliff Douglas; Fira; Taru
Synopsis: When their spaceship loses power, Cliff and his fiancé Fira land on Venus, "three thousand years behind the other planets". The Emporer Taru decides to fight Cliff in the gladiatorial arena.
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World's Largest Camera

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Genres: non-fiction
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Disclose Notes: Article about the reflecting telescope at the Palomar Observatory in California.
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First Line: Flash!
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First Line: Here's Proof...
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First Line: Gee what a build!
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