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Issue: Planetary #2
Publication Date: January 2001
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Issues: #2 of 4 Issues
Title: The Fourth Man
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagDC
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Indicia Publisher: WildStorm Productions
On Sale Date: 11/14/2001
Volume: none
Pages: 148
ISBN: 1563897644
UPC/EAN: 76194122879200111
Price: $24.95 CAD
$14.95 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 14 (6 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: Seventh printing available March 20, 2013 (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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Illustration  on  Cover, Wraparound
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction, superhero
Character(s): Jakita Wagner; Elijah Snow; Drummer
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Pages: 2
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Introduction by Joss Whedon

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction, superhero
Character(s): Jack Carter
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: This cover is a homage to Dave McKean's Hellblazer covers from the late 1980s.
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To Be in England, in the Summertime

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction, superhero
Character(s): Planetary [Elijah Snow; Jakita Wagner; the Drummer]; Jack Carter; the modern Herod; an unnamed superhero; unnamed mourners
Synopsis: Planetary attends the funeral of Jack Carter, a 1980s major magic user and one of Jakita's former lovers.
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Pages: 22
Disclose Notes: Credits include "with thanks to Laura DePuy."

The attendees at the funeral are homages to the 1980s DC Vertigo line. They include: the Sandman, Death, Black Orchid, Animal Man, The Writer (Grant Morrison), Swamp Thing, the Demon, the Doom Patrol, the Metal Men (not a Vertigo book), the Ragman, Shade, the Changing Man, and other unidentified mourners. Jack Carter is also a homage to John Constantine, another DC Vertigo character.
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The Day the World Turned Slower

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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction, superhero
Synopsis: Giant insects, giant and normal-sized humans, aliens, robots and flying saucers.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: The cover resembles a movie poster, including the credits.
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The Day the World Turned Slower

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction, superhero
Character(s): Planetary [Elijah Snow; Jakita Wagner; the Drummer]; Allison; Randall Dowling (cameo-flashback); Anna Hark (cameo-flashback)
Synopsis: Planetary is contacted by a woman named Allison, who relates to them the horrors of Science City Zero. City Zero was an experimental base where people disappeared during the height of the “Red Scare” and were subjected to scientific tortures designed to test the limits of the human body.
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Pages: 22
Disclose Notes: Credits include "with special thanks to Wendy Fouts."

Some of the monsters and mutated humans are reminiscent of the B-Grade science fiction movies of the 1950s and 1960s.
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Planet Fiction

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction, superhero
Character(s): Planetary [Ambrose Chase; Jakita Wagner; the Drummer]
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Pages: 1
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Planet Fiction

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction, superhero
Character(s): Planetary [Ambrose Chase (death); Jakita Wagner; the Drummer]; Mr. Devis; Miss Bourke
Synopsis: Planetary follows the recovery of a rocket that crash-lands in Norfolk England in 1997 from a fictional universe. Three astronauts left in the rocket, but four came back. The fourth kills the other astronauts before escaping into Planetary's world.
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Pages: 22
Disclose Notes: Dedication: "For Grant Morrison". This story takes place before Elijah Snow joined the team.
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Genres: science fiction, superhero
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Pages: 1
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Magic and Loss

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction, superhero
Character(s): Elijah Snow; the Planetary clean-up team; 2 unnamed aliens from a doomed planet; another alien, a member of a legion of alien policemen; a mother and her grown daughter from a hidden civilization on Earth; William Leather; Randall Dowling
Synopsis: As the Planetary clean-up team gathers various items from the Four Voyagers Plaza, Elijah looks at 3 artifacts and wonders about their history. The artifacts are a blanket with alien symbols on it, a pair of golden wrist bands, and a blue, alien lantern. The owners of the artifacts were killed by the Four.
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Disclose Notes: The three artifacts and their history are reminiscent of Superman (the blanket); Wonder Woman (the bracelets), and Green Lantern [Hal Jordan] (the lantern).
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Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction, superhero
Character(s): Elijah Snow; Jakita Wagner; the Drummer; John Stone
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Pages: 1
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Cold World

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction, superhero
Character(s): John Stone; Bride; Elijah Snow
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Pages: 22
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Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction, superhero
Character(s): Elijah Snow
Synopsis: Elijah Snow opaquely over various covers and interior pages of the previous 11 issues.
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Pages: 1
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Memory Cloud

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction, superhero
Character(s): Planetary [Elijah Snow; Jakita Wagner; the Drummer]; Sherlock Holmes (cameo-flashback); Randall Dowling (cameo-flashback)
Synopsis: As Elijah deals with his apparent memory loss with Jakita and the Drummer, the identity of the Fourth Man is revealed.
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Pages: 22

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