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4April 1940
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Planet Comics #4

Fiction House · April 1940 · on sale 1940-02-26

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Series
Planet Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series)
Issue
#4
Publication date
April 1940
Key date
1940-04-00
On-sale date
1940-02-26
Indicia publisher
Love Romances Pub. Co. Inc.
Price
$0.10
Pages
68

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Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0Slave Planetcover1pencils: Charles Sultan; inks: Charles SultanFlint Baker
1Bull's-Eye Bannonpromo (ad from the publisher)1letters: typesetBull's-Eye Bannon
2Slave Planetcomic story11script: Herman Bolstein; pencils: Art Peddy; inks: Will Eisner, Art PeddyFletcher "Flint" Baker; Mimi Wilson; Parks (crew member); the Great Eye (villain, introduction, death?); the Great Ear (villain, introduction); the Great Mouth (villain, introduction); space monsters (villains, creatures, some die)
3-comic story6script: Herman Bolstein; pencils: Bob Powell, Sid Greene; inks: Bob PowellAuro, Hardwich
4-comic story5script: Ken Jackson; pencils: Alex Blum, Dan Zolnerowich; inks: Dan ZolnerowichThe Red Comet; unnamed Earth explorers
5-comic story13pencils: Charles Sultan; inks: Charles SultanCaptain Nelson Cole; Felon (villain)
6Mist Men of Mercurytext story2pencils: Gene FawcetteKirk; Hoffer (scientist); the Mist Men
7Space Islands of Destructioncomic story7pencils: Henry Kiefer; inks: Henry KieferSpurt Hammond; Janice Dale (introduction); Mercurian pirates (villains, introduction for all)
8-comic story6script: ? [as Bob Jordan (byline)]Lieutenant Buzz Crandall; Doctor Curan [aka Curran]; Sandra Curan (the doctor's daughter); Dr. Zynnon (villain, introduction, death)
9Kenny Carr of the Martian Lancerscomic story4script: Stan Ford; pencils: Larry AntonetteCaptain Kenny Carr (introduction); Dwight (Carr's service buddy); unnamed colonel; enemy soldiers (villains, half die)
10-comic story4pencils: Ray BurnleyGale Allen and the Women's Space Battalion (introduction for all); Captain Jack North (Universal Space Patrol member, introduction); The Plutonians (villains, introduction for all, some die)
11Space Factscomic story0.75script: ? [by Lunar] (signed)
12Case 2....File-A....Clue 4comic story0.25pencils: Bob Powell; inks: Bob PowellBull's-Eye Bannon; Nora Earl (Dean's daughter-in-law); Clarence Dean (Earl's younger son); Miss Kane (a nurse)
13The Strongest Man in the Universecomic story5pencils: Alex BlumJim Giant (introduction); an unnamed dictator to be (villain, introduction)
14-promo (ad from the publisher)1pencils: various; inks: various; letters: typeset

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