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Issue Details

Issue #12
Published May 1941
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 68
Editing Malcolm Reiss (Editor); Gene Fawcette (Art Director)

Cover Details - "The Two-Faced Monsters of Planetoid Zero"

Genre science fiction
Pencils John Celardo (signed)
Inks John Celardo (signed)

7 page The Red Comet story "So, my friend, you intend to overcome us giants."

Characters V: Saturnian giants (I)
Genre science fiction
Script ? [as Sy Thatcher]
Pencils Dan Zolnerowich
Inks John Celardo?

6 page Gale Allen story "Circling over a little-known part of Venus which..."

Characters V: The Horned Men (I), Queen of Venus (I); GS: Jack North
Script ? [as Douglas McKee]

6 page Crash Parker story "Crash Parker finds himself trapped in a cosmic..."

Characters I: Koolen and the Chief Councillor (her father); V: the Polar People of Uranus (I)
Script ? [as S.A. Selwyn]
Pencils Pierce Rice
Inks Arturo Cazeneuve

6 page Spurt Hammond story "Far underground to escape the terrific heat of..."

Characters last appearance; V: Outcasts of Mercury (I, D); I: King of Mercury, Dr. Jon, Lisa
Genre science fiction
Script ? [as Doc Tully]

6 page Buzz Crandall of the Space Patrol story The Outlaw Amazons of Saturn's Twelfth Moon ["Terror rules Ued, Saturn's twelfth moon. The S.P. ace..."]

Characters GS: Marna; V: Kurmen; I: Da
Genre science fiction
Script ? [as William Hyer]
Notes The story title is taken from the cover blurb.

2 page text story "Slaver of the Space Lanes"

Genre science fiction
Script ? [as Bjorn Tagens]
Pencils ? (2 panels art)
Inks ? (2 panels art)
Letters typeset

9 page Captain Nelson Cole of the Air Force story "The Queen of the Red Degmen"

Characters V: Uveg and the Red Degmen (I, D) and their Queen (I)
Script ? [as Aurelius]
Pencils Don Lynch
Inks Don Lynch

5 page Auro Lord of Jupiter story "Auro wanders in the forests of a remote..."

Characters V: The Black Priest (I, D); I: Roane, Duane, and Lora
Genre science fiction
Script ? [as Nick Charles]
Pencils Don Rico
Inks Don Rico

5 page Norge Benson story "Norge Benson, a 'wrong-way Corrigan' of the space-ways..."

Characters I: Norge Benson
Genre science fiction
Script ?
Pencils Al Walker
Inks Al Walker

5 page The Star Pirate story "From his hiding place in Saturn's ring, an..."

Characters I & O: The Star Pirate; I: Trodelyte (aka Trody; app. in most stories to #31); V: A girl and other smugglers (I for all)
Genre science fiction
Script ? [as Leonardo Vinci]
Pencils Al Gabriele
Inks Al Gabriele?; George Appel?

7 page Flint Baker story The Two-Faced Monsters of Planetoid Zero ["Amazing stories of a lost party of Earthmen..."]

Characters V: Casper (I, D), Mogo (I, D), Guala (I), and other Two-Faced Men (I)
Genre science fiction
Script ? [as Al Schmidt]
Pencils Nick Cardy
Inks Nick Cardy
Notes The story title is taken from the cover blurb.