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| Publisher |
Fiction House |
| Artist |
Art Peddy |
| Artist |
Fletcher Hanks |
| Artist |
Witmer Williams |
| Artist |
Charles Quinlan |
| Artist |
Henry Kiefer |
| Artist |
Alex Blum |
| Artist |
Bob Powell |
| Inker |
Art Peddy |
| Inker |
Fletcher Hanks |
| Inker |
Witmer Williams |
| Inker |
Charles Quinlan |
| Inker |
Henry Kiefer |
| Inker |
Alex Blum |
| Inker |
Bob Powell |
| Cover Artist |
Bob Powell |
| Published | July 1940 |
Cover by Bob Powell. Edited by Malcolm Reiss, Jerry Iger and Will Eisner. Stories and art by Alex Blum, Fletcher Hanks, Arthur Peddy, Witmer Williams, Henry C. Kiefer, and Charles M. Quinlan. The first true science fiction comic, Planet Comics featured classic space opera with square-jawed heroes, rockets, rayguns and bug-eyed aliens of every stripe. Buzz Crandall battles Lepus the Fiend, in a story by legendary oddball cartoonist Fletcher Hanks; Magical space superhero The Red Comet faces the creatures known as The Stickers; Spurt Hammond, the defender of the Planet Venus, repels an invasion by The Rock Men of Jupiter. Early cover by Bob Powell. The Red Comet; Captain Nelson Cole; Auro Lord of Jupiter; The Rockmen of Jupiter; Buzz Crandall of the Space Patrol; Lost World of Time; Fero Interplanetary Detective; The Menace of the Magno-Universe; Crash Barker and the Zoom Sled; Planet Payson; Invasion of the Cyclops-Men of Mars.
