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Issue: Planetary #3
Publication Date: May 2005
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Issues: #3 of 4 Issues
Title: Leaving the Twentieth Century
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: object(PgSql\Result)#3 (0) { }
Indicia Publisher: WildStorm Productions
On Sale Date: 03/30/2005
Volume: 3
Pages: ?
ISBN: 1401202942
UPC/EAN: 76194124220000111
Price: $19.99 CAD
$14.99 USD
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Content Items: 7 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Sixth printing available July 31, 2013 (per comiclist.com).
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Publication Type: Trade Paperback
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: cardstock covers; glossy interiors
Binding: softcover
Publishing Format: collected edition
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3 Content Items from other Issues reprinted as/in this Issue:
FlagPlanetary #16 published October 2003 was Hark [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagPlanetary #17 published December 2003 was Opak-Re [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagPlanetary #18 published February 2004 was The Gun Club [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction, superhero
Feature(s): Planetary
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Century

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Warren Ellis
Penciller(s): John Cassaday
Inker(s): John Cassaday
Colorist(s): Laura DePuy
Letterer(s): Bill O’Neil
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction, superhero
Feature(s): Planetary
Character(s): Elijah Snow; Sherlock Holmes; Dracula
Synopsis: In the early part of the 20th century, a young Elijah Snow tracks down the last of a hidden conspiracy. It’s members include John Griffin [Invisible Man], H.G. Wells, Baron Frankenstein and his Monster, Robor, Carnacki, Sherlock Homes, and Dracula, among others. All have been accounted for except two: the detective and the vampire.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 22
Disclose Notes: This ‘secret society’ is similar to Brass’ secret society due to the same thinking -- taking the best minds of the world and trying to solve the world’s problems. Elijah is taken under Sherlock’s tutelage following this tale.
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Zeropoint

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Warren Ellis
Penciller(s): John Cassaday
Inker(s): John Cassaday
Colorist(s): Laura DePuy
Letterer(s): Bill O’Neil
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction, superhero
Feature(s): Planetary
Character(s): Planetary [Elijah Snow; Jakita Wagner; Ambrose Chase; the Drummer]; the Professor; the Four [Kim Suskind; William Leather; Randall Dowling]
Synopsis: The discovery of a stick that turns into a hammer leads Elijah to discover a world that the Four has destroyed to use as a place to store their weapons. This leads to a showdown with the Four, where a captured Elijah is forced to endure memory blocks by Randall Dowling in order to save his team.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 22
Disclose Notes: The hammer in this tale is similar to Thor’s hammer from Marvel Comics. The Professor in this tales seems to a mix of Professor Xavier (of Marvel’s X-Men) and Niles Caulder (the Chief from DC’s The Doom Patrol).
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Creation Songs

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Warren Ellis
Penciller(s): John Cassaday
Inker(s): John Cassaday
Colorist(s): Laura DePuy
Letterer(s): Bill O’Neil
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction, superhero
Feature(s): Planetary
Character(s): Planetary [Elijah Snow; Jakita Wagner; the Drummer]; Larissa Chase (Ambrose’s wife); Angela Chase (Ambrose’s daughter); Dr. Axel Brass; Carlton Marvell (flashback)
Synopsis: Elijah and Jakita visit Larissa Chase, to “right some wrongs” as Elijah puts it. Then, the team is off to Australia, to stop the Four from activating Dreamtime as a way to get into the Multiverse.
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Pages: 23
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Hark

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Warren Ellis
Penciller(s): John Cassaday
Inker(s): John Cassaday
Colorist(s): Laura Martin
Letterer(s): Richard Starkings
Subject Matter
Genres: martial arts, science fiction, superhero
Feature(s): Planetary
Character(s): Elijah Snow; Guest Stars: Anna Hark; Jim Wilder
Synopsis: Elijah confronts Anna Hark and convinces her to betray the 4, in exchange for learning the fate of Jim Wilder.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 22
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Opak-Re

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Warren Ellis
Penciller(s): John Cassaday
Inker(s): John Cassaday
Colorist(s): Laura Martin
Letterer(s): Richard Starkings
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction, superhero
Feature(s): Planetary
Character(s): Elijah Snow; Jakita Wagner; Guest Stars: Lord Blackstock
Synopsis: Elijah Snow discovers Lord Blackstock and the lost city of Opak-Re. Jakita Wagner is born.
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Pages: 22
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The Gun Club

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Warren Ellis
Penciller(s): John Cassaday
Inker(s): John Cassaday
Colorist(s): Laura Martin
Letterer(s): Richard Starkings
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction, superhero
Feature(s): Planetary
Character(s): Elijah Snow; Jakita Wagner; The Drummer; Guest Stars: John Stone; William Leather
Synopsis: Planetary captures William Leather while investigating the first voyage from the Earth to the Moon.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 22

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