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Issue: Space Busters #2 Public Domain
Publication Date: January 1952
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Issues: #2 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): Allen Anderson (painted)
Inker(s): Allen Anderson
Colorist(s): Allen Anderson
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First Line: Earth Fights Invaders from Outer Space!
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Pages: 1
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First Line: Football Time is all the Time with Jim Prentice Electric Football
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Victory on Valda

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Murphy Anderson
Inker(s): Murphy Anderson
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Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Space Busters
Character(s): Captain Brett Crockett; Lieutenant April Wing; Sergeant Bolo; Lieutenant Castro; Menso; Rada; Lazar
Synopsis: Captain Crockett's troops have a hard time convincing the freedom fighters of the planetoid Valda that they're not just as bad as the Belzarians, until nurse Wing saves Menso's daughter Rada.
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Pages: 7
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Every Space Buster a One-Man Army

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Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Space Busters
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Disclose Notes: Everything you want to know about their metallo-plastic helmets, thermo rifle, proton pistol, micro-grenades, and Space Buster Academy outside Luna City on the Moon. "Only three applicants out of every thousand are accepted for Space Buster training -- and only 40% of these recruits finish the full two years' training."
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Remember Makano

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Murphy Anderson
Inker(s): Murphy Anderson
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Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Space Busters
Character(s): Captain Brett Crockett; Sergeant Bolo; Senstral
Synopsis: After the traitor Senstral leads an attack of the Utani ape-men on the outpost on Makano, Captain Crockett leads a select platoon that decimates the Utani barracks and destroys the Belzarian death ray tank corps.
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First Line: Interplanetary Action!
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The True Story of Flying Saucers

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Writer(s): Harry Harrison
Letterer(s): Typeset
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Pages: 2
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Life in the Solar System

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Penciller(s): Everett Raymond Kinstler
Inker(s): Everett Raymond Kinstler
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Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: Mercury is too hot, Jupiter is too cold, but they hold out the possibility of life on Venus ("the coldest parts of Venus have the same temperature as our equator") and Mars ("the warmest climate of Mars resembles our sub-Arctic').
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Mission to Baldor!

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Penciller(s): Marvin Stein (signed) [as M. Stein]
Inker(s): Marvin Stein (signed) [as M. Stein]
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Feature(s): Space Busters
Character(s): Sabra; Abba; Senstral; Caldo; Captain Brett Crockett; Sergeant Bolo; Lieutenant April Wing
Synopsis: Capt. Crockett befriends Sabra, the leader of the guerilla movement on the planetoid Baldor. Together, they deliver a decisive defeat to Senstral and his Mashon troops.
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The Batmen of Luna

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Penciller(s): John Prentice
Inker(s): John Prentice
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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Lieutenant Steve Halden; Kara Lane; Captain Dane Bartok
Synopsis: Captain Bartok has a chance to repair his tarnished reputation when the Batmen attack Earth.
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Pages: 7
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Peenemünde

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Penciller(s): Everett Raymond Kinstler
Inker(s): Everett Raymond Kinstler
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Genres: war
Synopsis: The race of the American, British, and Russian forces to secure the rocket research site on the Baltic Sea in 1945.
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First Line: I gained 53 lbs. of shapely power-packed muscles!
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First Line: Uncle Bernie's Fun Shop
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