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Issue: Planetary #8
Publication Date: February 2000
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Issues: #8 of 27 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: Wildstorm WSView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: WildStorm Productions
On Sale Date: 12/29/1999
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: 76194121892200811
Price: $3.95 CAD
$2.50 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 2 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s): John Layman
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; glossy interiors
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
Disclose Reprinted In7
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Disclose Images1
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The Day the World Turned Slower

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): John Cassaday [as JC] (signed)
Inker(s): John Cassaday [as JC] (signed)
Colorist(s): Laura DePuy
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Planetary
Synopsis: Giant insects, giant and normal-sized humans, aliens, robots and flying saucers.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagPlanetary #1 published May 2007
In Content Item: FlagPlanetary #2 published May 2001
as Planetary #8 cover [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWildstorm #12 published July 2001
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
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)
Credits
Writer(s): Warren Ellis
Penciller(s): John Cassaday
Inker(s): John Cassaday
Colorist(s): Laura DePuy
Letterer(s): Ryan Cline
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Planetary
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.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagAbsolute Planetary #1 published January 2004
In Issue: FlagPlanetary #1 published May 2007
In Content Item: FlagPlanetary #2 published May 2001
as The Day the Earth Turned Slower [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWildstorm #12 published July 2001
as Il giorno in cui la Terra rallentò [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
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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