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Issue Details

Issue #3
Published March 1940
Cover Price $0.10
Pages 68
Editing Malcolm Reiss (Editor); William E. Eisner (Art Director); S. M. Iger (Feature Editor)

Cover Details - "The Weird Void of Outer Space"

Genre science fiction
Pencils Will Eisner
Inks Will Eisner

13 page Flint Baker story "Bidding goodbye to their Martian friends and Princess..."

Characters GS: Mimi Wilson; V: The Plutonians and their king (I)
Genre science fiction
Script ? [as Starr Gayza]
Pencils Witmer Williams?; Bob Powell?; Dick Brieffer?
Inks ? [shop]

12 page Amazona the Mighty Woman story "In the vast cold reaches of the far..."

Characters I & O: Amazona; I: Blake Manners; only appearance
Genre science fiction
Script ? [as Wilson Locke]
Pencils Alex Blum?; Dan Zolnerowich?
Inks ?; shop

5 page Red Comet story "Red Comet, mystery explorer of the universe, cruising..."

Characters V: Golo (I)
Genre science fiction
Script ? [as Major Thorp]
Notes HW suggests Don Lynch or Newt Alfred as possibilities for penciler.

7 page Spurt Hammond story "...is passing through space within the orbit of..."

Characters V: Radgio (I, D); I: Princess Zilla
Genre science fiction
Pencils Henry Kiefer
Inks Henry Kiefer

2 page text story "The Lizard-Men of Alpha Astra"

Script ? [as Lin Davies]
Letters typeset
Reprinted in B&W in PLANET STORIES #4 [11/1961], published in the UK by Davenport Askew & Co. Ltd.

5 page Buzz Crandall story "Lieutenant of the Space Patrol, Buzz Crandall's life..."

Genre science fiction
Script ? [as Bob Jordan]

12 page Captain Nelson Cole story "Pirate ships attack defenseless space transports."

Characters V: Felon (I)
Genre science fiction
Script ? [as Beekman Terrill]
Pencils Leonard Frank?; Dick Briefer?
Inks Leonard Frank?; ?

Half page filler "The Case of the Diamond Death: Case 1: File-A: Clue No. 4"

Genre mystery
Pencils Bob Powell
Inks Bob Powell

6 page Auro Lord of Jupiter story "Auro, an Earthman, is King of Jupiter, by..."

Characters V: The Dragon Man (I, D)
Genre science fiction
Pencils R.L. Golden (signed)
Inks R.L. Golden (signed)

Half page Mysteries of the Universe filler "There is no surface on the sun, it..."

Genre fact