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Issue Details

Issue #5
Published September 1999
Cover Price $2.50
Pages 36
Editing John Layman
Notes The logo is similar to Doc Savage's logo from the Bantam Books of the '60s and '70s.

Cover Details

Characters Dr. Axel "Doc" Brass
Genre science fiction
Pencils John Cassaday
Inks John Cassaday
Colors Laura Depuy
Notes The logo is similar to Doc Savage's logo from the Bantam Books of the '60s and '70s.
Reprinted in Wildstorm (Magic Press, 2000 series) #5 (July-August 2000)

22 page Planetary story "The Good Doctor"

Characters Dr. "Doc" Axel Brass; Elijah Snow; Jenny Sparks (cameo); John Cumberland [The High] (cameo); Hark (cameo); Anna Hark (cameo); Brass's Secret Society [Brass; Hark; the Aviator; Edison; the Jungle Lord; Jimmy, the Secret Operator; The Spider] (cameos- all cameos in flashback)
Synopsis Axel and Elijah spend an afternoon talking and reminiscing about their lives.
Genre science fiction
Script Warren Ellis
Pencils John Cassady
Inks John Cassady
Colors Laura Depuy
Letters Ali Fuchs
Notes The Secret Society are analogues of the following characters: Axel Brass (Doc Savage); The Aviator (G-8); Hark (Fu Manchu); The Spider (The Shadow/the Spider); The Jungle Lord (Tarzan); Edison (Tom Swift) ; Jimmy the Secret Operator (Operator #5).
Reprinted in Planetary: All Over the World and Other Stories (DC, 2000 series) #nn; in Absolute Planetary (DC, 2004 series) #[nn]; in Wildstorm (Magic Press, 2000 series) #5 (July-August 2000)