Digital Comic Museum - Planet Comics 005 [paper]


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Issue: #5
Published: May 1940, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: On sale date from the publication date found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, 1940, Number 2. Second class permit. Copyright number 453477.

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Genre:	Science Fiction

Comic Story (13 pages)	The Phony War of Cato and Jupiter
Synopsis:	Villains Morgo and Zirgo convince the other planets to launch an attack against Jupiter. Captain Nelson Cole discovers the villains' ruse.
Credits:	Script: ? [as Beekman Terrill]
Genre:	Science Fiction
Characters:	Morgo (villain, Introduction, Death) Zirgo (villain, Introduction, Death) The President Of Earth (introduction) Nelson Cole

Comic Story (4 pages)
Credits:	Script: ? [as Fred Nelson]
Genre:	Science Fiction
Characters:	Gale Allen Jack North (guest-star) Prince Blaga Daru (villain, Introduction)

Comic Story (5 pages)	The Vampire from Pluto
Genre:	Science Fiction
Characters:	Fero (introduction) A Werewolf From Pluto (villain, Introduction, Death) Vampire From Pluto (villain, Introduction, Death) Dr. John Wade (introduction) Phyllis Wade (his Daughter, Introduction)

Comic Story (6 pages)	In the Jungles of Jupiter
Synopsis:	Auro helps an expedition searching for the Lomo plant, and fights a triceratops, a sabre-tooth cat and a pterodactyl.
Credits:	Script: ? [as Jed Ganey]
Genre:	Science Fiction
Characters:	June (introduction) Other Scientists (introduction)

Comic Story (0 pages)	Case 3: File 1: Clue 4
Featuring:	Strange Case of Ezra Ark:
Genre:	Detective-mystery
Characters:	Bull's-Eye Bannon Ezra Ark

Comic Story (5 pages)	Crime Takes a Holiday!
Synopsis:	Red Comet exiles all criminals from Earth
Credits:	Script: ? [as Thomas Marlen] (signed)
Genre:	Science Fiction
Characters:	The Red Comet J. G. (villain, Introduction, Death) Other Warmongers (villains, Introduction For All, All Die)

Text Story (2 pages)	Slave of the Lizard-Men
Credits:	Script: ? [as Don Varick] \| Letters: typeset
Genre:	Science Fiction
Characters:	Dexter Ames Dr. Phillips Gunner Hatch Lizard-men Unnamed Giant Humanoid

Comic Story (8 pages)	The Doomed Universe
Featuring:	Space Admiral Curry
Credits:	Script: ? [as Walt Scott]
Genre:	Science Fiction
Characters:	Space Admiral Curry (introduction) The Universal President (introduction) Rocko (villain, Introduction, Death)

Comic Story (7 pages)	The Idiots of Pluto
Credits:	Script: ? [as Orson Herr]
Genre:	Science Fiction
Characters:	Morono [king Of Pluto] (villain, Introduction) King Satius (introduction) His Daughter (introduction) Spurt Hammond Plutonians

Comic Story (6 pages)	Slaves of the Flower People
Synopsis:	On an unexplored planetoid, Buzz, along with partner Sandra, save the enslaved 'headless' people and destroy their captors, the plant people.
Credits:	Script: ? [as Bob Jordan]
Genre:	Science Fiction
Characters:	The Flower People Of An Asteroid (villains, Introduction, Death) Headless Men Of The Asteroid (introduction) Buzz Crandall Sandra Curan

Comic Story (7 pages)	Adventures on a New World
Synopsis:	Flint & Mimi help relocate the ancient people of a dying race on a planet in a newly-formed solar system, where they're rejuvenated and become young again. He fights off a group of Gragonians, whose own planet was struck by a meteor and try to claim the new planet for their own.
Credits:	Script: ? [as Starr Gayza]
Genre:	Science Fiction
Characters:	The Grangonians (villains) Mimi Wilson (guest-star) Flint Baker

Cartoon (1 page)
Featuring:	Planet Puns
Credits:	Script: ? [as Jupitor] (sic)
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Mr. Goldbucks

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