Planet Comics #13

Published
January 1952
Page count
24
Cover price
8d [0-0-8 AUP]
Colour
Black & white
Size
Standard size
Interior paper
Newsprint
Cover stock
Matte colour
Binding
Saddle-stitched
Format
Comic series
Branding
None
GCD
www.comics.org/issue/1016173

Credits

Editing
, editor

Issue contents Hide all

Show/hide Cover Untitled Cover, 1 page

Featuring

Genre
Science fiction

Credits

Art
Maurice Whitman, line art
Colours
, colourist
Text
, letterer
Editing
John F. Byrne, original Managing Editor [as J. F. Byrne]
 
S. M. Iger, original Art Director [as Jerry Iger]

Reprint history

First print
United States
Planet Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #66 (1952)
No title recorded
Show/hide 1. Untitled (Space Rangers) Comic story, 6 pages

"Starry-Eyed colonists, with visions of a new world plunged swiftly into the enshrouded mists of venus…"

Featuring

Feature
Space Rangers
Genre
Science fiction
Characters
The Space Rangers [Flint Baker]; Guest Stars: Hercules; Villains: Gor (intro; death); Venusians (intro)

Credits

Writing
, scripter [as Hugh Fitzhugh]
Art
Frank Doyle, line art
Text
, letterer
Editing
J. F. Byrne, original Managing Editor

Reprint history

First print
United States
Planet Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #48 (May 1947)
Untitled
Show/hide 2. Untitled (Star Pirate) Comic story, 7 pages

"The loot-bins of Star Pirate, laughing bandit of the space lanes, were fast shrinking since the daring snatch of the fabulous sonstone necklace…"

Featuring

Feature
Star Pirate
Genre
Science fiction
Characters
I: Valdina; V: Bruno (I, D), Flame People and Ice People of Mercury (I for all)

Credits

Writing
, scripter [credited as Len Dodson]
Art
Murphy Anderson, line art [signed as Anderson]
Text
, letterer
Editing
J. F. Byrne, original Managing Editor

Reprint history

First print
United States
Planet Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #48 (May 1947)
Untitled
Show/hide 3. Future Facts Comic story, 3 pages

Featuring

Genre
Science fiction

Credits

Writing
, scripter [as Thornecliffe Herrick]
Art
, line art (illustration)
Text
, typeset
Editing
J. F. Byrne, original Managing Editor

Reprint history

First print
United States
Planet Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #48 (May 1947)
Future Facts
Show/hide 4. Untitled (Mysta of the Moon) Comic story, 7 pages

"Vote humanist! Elect the scientist candidates! Such were the election-eve notices on Earth…"

Featuring

Feature
Mysta of the Moon
Genre
Science fiction
Characters
Mysta of the Moon; Guest Star: Bron II; Villains: Lara (intro; death); Drakon (intro; death); Rithor (intro)

Credits

Writing
, scripter [as Ross Gallun]
Art
Fran Hopper, line art [signed]
 
, inker
Text
, letterer
Editing
J. F. Byrne, original Managing Editor

Reprint history

First print
United States
Planet Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #48 (May 1947)
Untitled

Synopsis

The Humanist political party is blamed for terrorist attacks, but Mysta discovers that they are being framed by their opponents. She fakes her own death to go undercover and expose the plot.

Notes

This story includes two of the original pages printed on side, two-up. The original printing of this story was 8 pages.


Status

AusReprints ID

  • 55184

Entry created

  • 11/08/2011

Cover added

  • 05/02/2020

Index completed

  • 13/08/2022

Last updated

  • 13/08/2022