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Issue: Planet Comics #27 Public Domain
Publication Date: November 1943
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Issues: #27 of 73 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagFiction House
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Love Romances Pub. Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/10/1943
Volume: none
Pages: 60
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 9 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1943, New Series, Vol. 38, No. 4.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U. S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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The Fire-Eaters of Asteroid Z

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Gale Allen and the Girl Squadron
Character(s): Gale Allen
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Thornecliffe Herrick] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): The Lost World
Character(s): Hunt Bowman; Marova (villain, introduction); the Gopher People (villains, introduction); Voltamen (villains)
First Line: A brawny archer and a lithe, royal beauty...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Ross Gallun] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Mars
Character(s): Mars; Nezorf (villain, introduction, death); Princess Tala (introduction); Jan (introduction); Berto (introduction)
First Line: At a council meeting on the planetoid Guar...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: The phrase "God of War" is absent from the title page although it does appear on the cover.
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The Fire-Eaters of Asteroid Z

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Douglas McKee] (signed)
Penciller(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Gale Allen and the Girl Squadron
Character(s): Gale Allen; Nzam of Navam; Dima (head of space cargo ships); The Armadillo Men (villains, introduction, some die); The Dragon (villain)
First Line: The Nizam of Vanam summons Gale and Dima...
Synopsis: Gale and Dima are sent to the world of Vuur, from where an expedition of theirs failed to return from, and they discover a race of Armadillo Men unearthed by a volcano, and who are attempting to turn the world's inhabitants into versions of themselves for use as slaves.
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In Content Item: FlagMen of Mystery Comics #82 published June 2010
as The Fire-Eaters of Asteroid Z [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: The story title is taken from the cover blurb. HW suggests possible F.R. Sieminsky as penciler. HS thinks perhaps Lee Elias.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as George Vincent] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Star Pirate
Character(s): Star Pirate; un-named hermit (villain, introduction, death)
First Line: As the Vengeance cruises the spaceways, Star notices...
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Pages: 8
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Will Man Find the Key To Eternal Life?

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as H. MacLeod Kensington, B. S.] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Auro Lord of Jupiter
Character(s): Auro; Laron of Tando (introduction); Mara (introduction, Laron's daughter); Opar Irafa (villain, introduction, death)
First Line: One morning, as Auro takes his daily swim...
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Pages: 6
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Norge Benson
Character(s): Norge Benson; Guset Stars: Jolie; Captain of the ASTRID Q (introduction); The Gudrun people (villains, introduction, Vikings from space)
First Line: Norge meets an old sea captain who shows...
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Pages: 6
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Hugh Fitzhugh] (signed)
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Space Rangers; Gora (villain, introduction, death); Tana (introduction); Adolf Hitler (villain, cameo)
First Line: With an almost inaudible roar, a lone rocket...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: HW notes George Tuska "influence" on page five.

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