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Issue: Planet Comics #53 Public Domain
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Publisher: FlagFiction House
Indicia Publisher: Love Romances Pub. Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Every other month
Content Items: 9 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): J. F. Byrne (Managing Editor)
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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
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
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Dwarflings from Oceania

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Joe Doolin
Joe Doolin
?
?
Subject Matter
science fiction
The Lost World
Hunt Bowman
Reprinting
FlagPlanet Comics #5 published ?cover
 
Miscellaneous
1
Despite The Lost World being the only strip touted on the cover, this cover illustration better fits the Auro Lord of Jupiter episode in this issue.
Dwarflings from Oceania

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as Thornecliffe Herrick] (signed)
George Evans (signed)
George Evans (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
science fiction
The Lost World
Hunt Bowman; The Unknown Venusian (introduction, death); Voltamen (villains, death)
Richest of all planets our videos show Earth...
Reprinting
FlagThrilling Planet Tales #[nn] published January 1991
as Dwarflings of Oceania [Story on Interior Page(s)]in black & white
 
Miscellaneous
10
The story title is taken from the cover blurb.
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as Ross Gallun] (signed)
Matt Baker
Matt Baker
?
?
Subject Matter
science fiction
Mysta of the Moon
Mysta of the Moon; Guest Star: Bron II; Dr. Svord (introduction, death); Svord's assistant (introduction, death); Kharn (villain, introduction, death); Elna (villain, introduction, death); Orok (villain, introduction, death)
Alone in the mist-shrouded moon lab, Bron heard...
Mysta's vacation is interrupted by a distress call from Dr. Svord, who was attacked by villains seeking his electro-ion technology. He also gives her a cloak of invisibility.
Reprinting
FlagThrilling Planet Tales #[nn] published January 1991
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]reprinted in black & white
FlagThrilling Science Fiction #1 published January 1998
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
8
Baker art is most likely freelance at this stage and not through the Iger Shop. The fact that Planet Comics has had VERY little Iger work reinforces that likelihood.
Goz Is Coming

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as Dick Charles] (signed)
Joe Doolin
Joe Doolin; John Celardo
?
?
Subject Matter
science fiction
Auro Lord of Jupiter
Auro Lord of Jupiter; Guest Star: Claudia; Goz (villain, death); D-Battalion (villains, introduction, death)
Reprinting
FlagThrilling Planet Tales #[nn] published January 1991
as Goz Is Coming! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
6
Holiday on Venus

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as Thornecliffe Herrick] (signed)
typeset
Subject Matter
science fiction
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
2
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as Hugh Fitzhugh] (signed)
Frank Doyle
Frank Doyle
?
?
Subject Matter
science fiction
Space Rangers
The Space Rangers [Flint Baker]; Rocky (villain, introduction, death); Flo (villain, introduction, death)
The miraculous riddle of eternal life was solved!
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
6
Reef Ryan is not in this story.
[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
typeset
Subject Matter
The Vizigraph
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
0.67
The bottom one third of the page is taken up by the Ownership Statement.
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as John Douglas] (signed)
Walter Palais [as Walt Palais] (signed)
Walter Palais [as Walt Palais] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
science fiction
Futura
Futura [Marcia Reynolds]; Guest Stars: Aborotes (death); Jarl Sud (death); the Keeper (as a ghost); Mentor (villain, death); Cymradians (villains, all die)
Cymradia has fallen! The brain-men's castle gates gape...
Believing that Mentor and the Brainmen have all perished, Futura ends "Project Survival" and heads for home, not knowing that Mentor and the Cymradians survive and intend to strike back at her, once and for all time!
Reprinting
FlagMen of Mystery Comics #82 published June 2010
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
6
The Fire Gem of Kal-Jmar

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as Len Dodson] (signed)
Maurice Whitman
Maurice Whitman
?
?
Subject Matter
science fiction
Star Pirate
Star Pirate; Varon (villain, introduction, death); Lura (villain, introduction, death?)
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
7

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