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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published January 1940
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
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Cover Details - "The One-Eyed Monsters of Mars"

Genre science fiction
Pencils Lou Fine
Inks Lou Fine
Notes Lou Fine cover pencil and ink credits confirmed by one-time owner of the original art, Roger Hill, and confirmed to him by a conversation he had with Will Eisner (January 5, 2010).
Reprinted in Planet Comics (Pacific Comics, 1984 series) #1

15 page Flint Baker story "The One-Eyed Monster Men From Mars"

Characters Fletcher "Flint" Baker (introduction, origin); Harry Parks (introduction); Phil Godwin (introduction); Cliff Grant (introduction, death); Mimi Wilson (introduction); King of Mars (introduction); Princess Viga; Sarko (villian, introduction, death)
Genre science fiction
Pencils Dick Briefer
Inks Dick Briefer

6 page Auro Lord of Jupiter story "Early in the twenty-first century, a cruise ship..."

Characters Auro [Hardwich] (introduction, origin); Prof. John Hardwich (introduction, death, Auro's father); Mrs. John Hardwich (introduction, death, Auro's mother; Martha Gale; King of Neptune (villian, introduction)
Genre science fiction
Pencils Malcolm Kildale
Inks Malcolm Kildale

5 page Red Comet story "Hurtling through space with the speed of light..."

Characters The Red Comet (introduction); Zagu and the Spidermen (villian, introduction, death)
Genre science fiction
Pencils Ken Jackson
Inks Ken Jackson

15 page Captain Nelson Cole of the Solar Force story "Sudden danger threatens the inhabitants of the solar..."

Characters Capt. Nelson Cole (introduction); Bud (Cole's sidekick, introduction); Zan (villian, introduction); Zan's woman (villian, introduction)
Genre science fiction
Pencils Alex Blum
Inks Alex Blum

7 page Spurt Hammond story "The War Lords of the Moon"

Characters Spurt Hammond (introduction); The Lunerzons (villian, introduction); The Mooniacs (villian, introduction)
Genre science fiction
Pencils Henry Kiefer
Inks Henry Kiefer

4 page Buzz Crandall and the Space Patrol story "Crossing through space in their atom-powered ship, Buzz..."

Characters Buzz Crandall (introduction); Dr. Curan (introduction); Nancy Curan (Dr. Curan's daughter, introduction); The Sharkmen (villian, introduction, death)
Genre science fiction

12 page Quorak, Space Pirate story "The Man Who Stole a World"

Characters Quorak (villian, introduction); Lt. Gary Blake (introduction); Joan Perry (introduction, only appearance)