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)