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The Weird Void of Outer Space

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): Will Eisner

Inker(s): Will Eisner

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Feature(s): The Planetary Adventures of Flint Baker on Pluto

Character(s): Flint Baker

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Pages: 1

Calling All Manhunters! Can You Solve a Crime?

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Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?; mostly typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: mystery

Feature(s): Bull's-Eye Bannon

Character(s): Bull's-Eye Bannon

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Pages: 1

Notes: Found on the inside front cover.

Illustrated promotional advertisement and contest from the publisher, offering $25 in prize money plus a membership in the new exclusive Junior Detective MANHUNTER Agency. Readers are told that each month Bull's-Eye would present a new case in the form of a strip at the bottom of a page in Planet, Jumbo, Jungle and Fight Comics which the readers would examine, then write out their solution to the case and submit it to the publishers along with the coupons found in each of those issues. The best solution gets $5, while the next 20 get $1 each. Deadline is March 1, 1940.

Indicia lists Thurmond T. Scott as President, Malcolm Reiss as Editor, William E. Eisner as Art Director, and S. M. Iger as Feature Editor.

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Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Herman Bolstein [as Starr Gayza] (signed)

Penciller(s): Bob Powell ?

Inker(s): ? [shop]

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Feature(s): The Planetary Adventures of Flint Baker on Pluto

Character(s): Fletcher "Flint" Baker; Mimi Wilson; Plutonian King (villain, introduction); The Plutonians (villains, introduction for all)

First Line: Bidding goodbye to their Martian friends and Princess...

Synopsis: Instead of returning to Earth, Mimi sets the controls to Pluto, where they arrive out of fuel. Immediately, Flint is attacked by weird half-man, half-amphibian creatures and captured.

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Pages: 13

Notes: Script credit suggested by the Who's Who.

Pencils credit from Roy Thomas Presents Planet Comics (PS Artbooks, 2012 series) #1.

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Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Inker(s): shop

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Amazona (introduction, origin); Blake Manners (newspaperman, explorer, introduction, only appearance); Hennigan (Blake's newspaper Editor, introduction); unnamed cab driver (introduction); gang of jewel robbers (villains, introduction for all, most die)

First Line: In the vast cold reaches of the far north lives Amazona, woman of surpassing strength and unmatched beauty.

Synopsis: Amazona and her people, the last survivors of a super race that perished during the last ice age, live in the far north reaches of the Arctic. They are visited by Blake, the only survivor of an exploratory expedition. Wanting to return to America, a land Amazona know nothing about, Blake finds himself accompanied on the trip by Amazona, who is bored with her true home.

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Divas, Dames & Daredevils #[nn] published January 2013
as credits [Credits on Interior Page(s)]page 1, panel 1, Amazona figure

In Content Item: Flag

Divas, Dames & Daredevils #[nn] published January 2013
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Pages: 12

Notes: Pencils credit from Roy Thomas Presents Planet Comics (PS Artbooks, 2012 series) #1.

Toni Blum and Dan Zolnerowich credits from Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #100.

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Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Ken Jackson ? [as Major Thorp] (byline)

Penciller(s): Ken Jackson ?; Alex Blum ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Feature(s): Red Comet

Character(s): Red Comet; Golo (villain, ruler of the giants, introduction); the Giants (villains, introduction for all, many die)

First Line: Red Comet, mystery explorer of the universe, cruising through space in search of adventure, suddenly gets a strange message...

Synopsis: While crusing the universe, Red Comet gets a strange message from a ruler on Jupiter, who challenges the entire solar system to battle with his forces.

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Pages: 5

Notes: Hames Ware suggests Don Lynch or Newt Alfred as possibilities for penciler.

Script and pencils credits from Roy Thomas Presents Planet Comics (PS Artbooks, 2012 series) #1.

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Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Henry Kiefer

Inker(s): Henry Kiefer

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Feature(s): Spurt Hammond, Planet-Flyer

Character(s): Spurt Hammond; Princess Zilla (introduction); Radgio (villain, Zilla's Prime Minister, introduction, death); Radgio's Councilmen (villains, introduction for all); Radgio's monsters (villains, introduction for all, some die)

First Line: Spurt Hammond is passing through space within the orbit of Mercury, when the spheroid of his astragraph picks up an alarming sight...

Synopsis: While cruising near Mercury, Spurt's astragraph picks up the images of a young girl being roughly seized by brutal captors, and he heads to the planet to investigate. He saves Princess Zilla and learns that her prime minister is turning people into monsters, seeking to conquer the world.

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Pages: 7

The Lizard-Men of Alpha Astra

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Lin Davies] (credited)

Penciller(s): ? (spot illustrations)

Inker(s): ? (spot illustrations)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Captain Dexter Ames; Doctor Phillips; Cara Phillips (the doctor's daughter); Sept Morgan (ship's Engineer); Gunner Hatch (crew member); The Lizard Men (villains, many die)

First Line: Captain Dexter Ames caught his breath.

Synopsis: Ames and Phillips visit a mystery planet and come face to face with rodent-faced Lizard Men!

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Planet Stories #4 published ?

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Notes: Story occurs in the year 21,000 A.D.

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Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Bob Jordan] (byline)

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Feature(s): Buzz Crandall of the Space Patrol

Character(s): Lieutenant Buzz Crandall; Sabdra Coran; Moon Bats (villains); Lunar Land Squid (villain, death)

First Line: Lieutenant of the Space Patrol, Buzz Crandall's life is one of thrilling adventure.

Synopsis: Sandra and Buzz report to Post 82 on the Moon and discover that all communication with Post 83 has been cut off, so the pair go and investigate.

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Pages: 5

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Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Beekman Terrill] (byline)

Penciller(s): Leonard Frank

Inker(s): Leonard Frank

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Feature(s): Captain Nelson Cole of the Solar Force

Character(s): Captain Nelson Cole; unnamed Chief of the Solar Force; Felon (villain, space pirate leader, introduction, death?); space pirates (villains, introduction for all, many die)

First Line: Pirate ships attack defenseless space transports.

Synopsis: The Chief of the Solar Force puts Captain Cole in charge of finding the space pirates that are attacking defenseless space transports.

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Pages: 12.75

Notes: Art credits from Roy Thomas Presents Planet Comics (PS Artbooks, 2012 series) #1.

The Case of the Diamond Death: Case 1: File-A: Clue No. 4

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Bob Powell

Inker(s): Bob Powell

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: mystery

Feature(s): Bull's-Eye Bannon

Character(s): Bulls-Eye Bannon; Tom Peerce (mention only, death); Bonse (villain); two unnamed criminals (villains)

First Line: Pulling a gun won't help, Bonse...

Synopsis: Bannon captures the last suspect in the murder of Tom Peerce.

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Pages: 0.25

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Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Herman Bolstein

Penciller(s): Louis Golden [as R. L. Golden] (signed)

Inker(s): Louis Golden [as R. L. Golden] (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Feature(s): Auro Lord of Jupiter

Character(s): Auro (King of Jupiter); Auro's unnamed guard; the Dragon Man (villain, introduction, death)

First Line: On the palace grounds, mighty Auro retains his wonderful build, by practicing hair-raising stunts!

Synopsis: A strange character approaches Auro's throne and asks him if he intends to kill a dragon responsible for the deaths of many of Auro's people. Soon Auro learns that this man, called the Dragon Man, is, in fact, the dragon.

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Pages: 6

Notes: Script credit suggested by the Who's Who.

The blurb of last issue's story indicated that the story for this issue was "The Dragon God".

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Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: informational

Feature(s): Mysteries of the Universe

First Line: There is no surface on the sun, it...

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Pages: 0.5

Notes: Illustrated, two panel factual information featurette on the origin of the Earth and the fact there is no surface to the Sun.

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Advertisement on Interior Page(s)

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Penciller(s): ?; photo ?

Inker(s): ?; photo ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 0.05

Notes: Illustrated advertisement from the Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, asking readers to mail in a coupon, requesting the 32-page prize booklet, full of valuable prizes, which can be won if they agree to sell the company's three publications.

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Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)

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Penciller(s): various

Inker(s): various

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 1

Notes: Illustrated house advertisement for Jungle Comics #3 (Charles Sultan art), Fight Comics #3 (Will Eisner art), and Jumbo Comics #13 (Will Eisner art), all covers reproduced with on sale dates. Readers are asked to read all four (including unseen Planet Comics) and join in the new Manhunter contest.

Found on the inside back cover.

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Advertisement on Interior Page(s)

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Penciller(s): ?; ? (photos)

Inker(s): ?; ? (photos)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 1

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Illustrated and photographic advertisement from Remington Rand, Inc., telling readers how to get a free trial of their new portable typewriter, and how they can also purchase a desk to put it on for $1.00.