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Issue Details

Issue #50
Published September 1947
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 52
Editing J. F. Byrne (Managing Editor)

Cover Details - "The Things of Xeres"

Genre science fiction
Pencils Joe Doolin
Inks Joe Doolin

10 page The Lost World story "What faint chance remains of smashing volta domination..."

Characters V: Voltamen (D), Panduro (I, D)
Genre science fiction
Script ? [as Thornecliffe Herrick]
Pencils George Evans (signed)
Inks George Evans (signed)

6 page Futura story "The triumph is yours, Futura...with stealth and..."

Characters V: Mentor, Cymradians; I: Butterfly people
Genre science fiction
Script ? [as John Douglas]
Pencils Walter Palais (signed)
Inks Walter Palais (signed)

1 page The Vizigraph letters page

Letters Typeset

6 page Auro Lord of Jupiter story The Things of Xeres ["Was it liquid life or liquid death, this..."]

Characters GS: Dorna; V: Tizar (I, D)
Genre science fiction
Script ? [as Dick Charles]
Pencils Joe Doolin
Inks Joe Doolin
Notes The story title is taken from the cover blurb.

2 page Life On Other Worlds filler "Uranus"

Genre science fiction
Pencils Murphy Anderson (signed)
Inks Murphy Anderson (signed)
Reprinted in Best of Horror and Science Fiction Comics, The (Bruce Webster, 1987 series) #1

6 page Space Rangers story "The black planet--what it was, who lived..."

Characters V: Leura (I, D), Koorc (I, D)
Genre science fiction
Script ? [as Hugh Fitzhugh]
Pencils Frank Doyle
Inks Frank Doyle

2 page text story "Planets For Sale"

Genre science fiction
Script ? [as Thornecliffe Herrick]
Letters typeset

8 page Mysta of the Moon story "Eerily it drifted...this battered, unmanned space hulk..."

Characters GS: Bron II; V: Gon, Durg, and other Jovian batmen (I, D for all)
Genre science fiction
Script ? [as Ross Gallun]
Pencils Maurice Whitman
Inks Maurice Whitman

7 page Star Pirate story "For many lunars Star and Blacky tried in..."

Characters V: The Space Falcon, Tara, and Laro (I for all)
Genre science fiction
Script ? [as Len Dodson]
Pencils Murphy Anderson (signed)
Inks Murphy Anderson (signed)