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Issue: Planetary #[1]
Publication Date: May 2000
 
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Title: All Over the World and Other Stories
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: WildStorm Productions
On Sale Date: 03/22/2000
Volume: none
Pages: 164
ISBN: 1563896486
UPC/EAN: 76194122254700111
Price: $23.50 CAD
$14.95 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 18 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: The softcover edition was released before the hardcover.

Ninth printing available July 31, 2013; tenth printing available December 10, 2014; and eleventh printing November 11, 2015 (per comiclist.com).
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Publication Type: Trade Paperback
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: cardstock cover: glossy interior
Binding: softcover
Publishing Format: collected editions
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Original Artwork
Digital Edition
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Title Page
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Cover, Wraparound
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Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Wraparound
Credits
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Subject Matter
science fiction, superhero
Jakita Wagner; Elijah Snow; Drummer
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Miscellaneous
2
Wraparound cover.
Dedications

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
typeset
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Miscellaneous
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Planetary Consciousness: Introduction by Alan Moore

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
typeset
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Miscellaneous
2
Archaeologists of the Impossible

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
typeset
Subject Matter
science fiction, superhero
Elijah Snow; Jakita Wagner; the Drummer
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Miscellaneous
1
All Over The World

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
science fiction, superhero
Planetary [Elijah Snow; Jakita Wagner; the Drummer]; Dr. "Doc" Axel Brass; Brass's Secret Society [Hark; the Aviator; Edison; the Jungle Lord; Jimmy, the Secret Operator; The Spider] (all in flashback); 7 costumed invaders (cameos in flashback)
Elijah Snow is hired by Jakita Wagner to join Planetary, a four-man team (3 field agents and one mysterious backer known as "the Fourth Man")looking to uncover the hidden history of the world as “mystery archeologists." Their first mission: to explore a man-made cavern in the Adirondacks, the last known destination of Doc Brass, an adventurer from the 1930s and 1940s.
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First introduction of the Snowflake. The seven costumed invaders are reminiscent of the original Justice League or America. The Secret Society are analogues of the following characters: Axel Brass (Doc Savage); The Aviator (G-8); Hark (Fu Manchu); The Spider (The Shadow/the Spider); The Jungle Lord (Tarzan); Edison (Tom Swift) ; Jimmy the Secret Operator (Operator #5).
Action! Terror! Fun!

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
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typeset
Subject Matter
science fiction, superhero
A monster's skeleton attacking Ryu [Master Storyteller] and his men.
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Island

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
science fiction, superhero
Planetary [Elijah Snow; Jakita Wagner; the Drummer]; Ryu [Master Storyteller]; Shinya Fukuda; skeletons and bodies of enormous monsters on Island Zero
Planetary travels to Japan to investigate the unofficial history of Island Zero, a breeding ground for giant radioactive monsters.
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Some of the monsters depicted here resemble Godzilla, Mothra, Ghidrah, and Rhodan from old Japanese monster movies. Island Zero also resembles Monster Island.
[untitled]

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
science fiction, superhero
A spectral policeman seeking vengeance.
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Dead Gunfighters

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
science fiction, superhero
Planetary [Elijah Snow; Jakita Wagner; the Drummer]; Detective Shek Chi-Wai (a spectral cop); Michelle (Planetary's office manager in Hong Kong); Mok (Shek's ex-partner)
Planetary travels to Hong Kong to investigate the ghost of a slain cop bent on vengeance.
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Miscellaneous
22
Strange Harbours

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
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typeset
Subject Matter
science fiction, superhero
Jim Wilder (transformed)
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Strange Harbours

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
science fiction, superhero
Planetary [Elijah Snow; Jakita Wagner; the Drummer]; Jim Wilder; Mr. Neumeier; Dr. Axel Brass (cameo); a ShiftShip
While investigating the destruction of a Hark building, Planetary watches as Jim Wilder -a Hark investigator- steps on a large lightning-bolt shaped rock and disappears. He returns transformed into a superhuman by a sentient ship designed to transverse alternate universes. The ship crash-landed on earth millions of years ago and has asked Wilder for help getting home. Wilder agrees to help and search out the other six superhumans needed to pilot the ship, with Planetary’'s help.
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The costume Jim wears after his transformation is reminiscent of the original Captain Marvel.
[untitled]

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
science fiction, superhero
Dr. Axel "Doc" Brass
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Miscellaneous
1
The Good Doctor

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
science fiction, superhero
Dr. "Doc" Axel Brass; Elijah Snow; Jenny Sparks (cameo); John Cumberland [The High] (cameo); Hark (cameo); Anna Hark (cameo); Brass's Secret Society [Brass; Hark; the Aviator; Edison; the Jungle Lord; Jimmy, the Secret Operator; The Spider] (cameos- all cameos in flashback)
Axel and Elijah spend an afternoon talking and reminiscing about their lives.
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Miscellaneous
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The Secret Society are analogues of the following characters: Axel Brass (Doc Savage); The Aviator (G-8); Hark (Fu Manchu); The Spider (The Shadow/the Spider); The Jungle Lord (Tarzan); Edison (Tom Swift) ; Jimmy the Secret Operator (Operator #5).
[untitled]

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
science fiction, superhero
4 astronauts (collectively known later as the Four.)
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1
4

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
science fiction, superhero
Planetary [Elijah Snow; Jakita Wagner; the Drummer]; the Four [Randall Dowling; Jacob Greene; William Leather; Kim Suskind]
Elijah learns about the Four, the first astronauts into space in the early 1960s. Changed during the flight, the Four are the opposite of Planetary, hording advanced technology and knowledge for only a privileged few, and leaving a faint trail of murder and terrorism behind them.
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The Four have an origin similar to the Fantastic Four of Marvel Comics.
Planetary Preview

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
Subject Matter
science fiction
Elijah Snow; Jakita Wagner; the Drummer
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Miscellaneous
1
Flip cover
Nuclear Spring

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
science fiction
Planetary--Elijah Snow; Jakita Wagner; the Drummer; GUEST: David Paine (flashback)
Planetary begins investigating an innovative bomb maker who disappeared in an explosion during the 1960s.
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Miscellaneous
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
science fiction, superhero
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Miscellaneous
1

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