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Issue Details

Issue #70
Published [Spring] 1953
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing J. F. Byrne (Managing Editor); Jerry Iger (Art Director)
Notes Cover title and illustration do not relate to any interior feature - although Star Pirate is about a planet of women and Space Rangers is about a cargo. This comic has no text story.

Cover Details - "Cargo for Amazonia"

Genre science fiction
Pencils Maurice Whitman
Inks Maurice Whitman
Notes Cover title and illustration do not relate to any interior feature - although Star Pirate is about a planet of women and Space Rangers is about a cargo. This comic has no text story.

8 page The Lost World story "There it stood, grim and brooding, symbol of..."

Characters Lyssa; Hunt; Voltamen (villains); Dr. Schultz (introduction; dies)
Synopsis Hunt and Lyssa are trying to escape some Voltamen and discover Dr. Schultz, so they enlist his aid in destroying a Volta power station.
Genre science fiction
Script ? [as Thornecliffe Herrick]
Pencils Lily Renee (signed)
Inks Lily Renee (signed)
Reprinted from PLANET COMICS #41 - March, 1946.

8 page Gale Allen story "There was nothing to fear--nothing Gale could..."

Characters Gale Allen; Itecs (introduction; villains); Lor [Itec High Priest] (introduction; dies)
Synopsis The planet Itec has returned to its orbit after being lost for aeons, and is now capturing spaceships. Gale is mistaken for a legendary queen and manages to hypnotize Lor.
Genre science fiction
Script ? [as Douglas McKee]
Pencils Joe Doolin
Inks Joe Doolin
Reprinted from PLANET COMICS #41 - March, 1946.

7 page Star Pirate story "Fer the luvva luna, Star, head home! I'm..."

Characters Star Pirate; Blackbeard; The Plastimen (introduction; villains)
Synopsis Star takes a spaceship of male colonists to a forgotten world populated only by women. People age very slowly there and the colonists decide to stay on with the women, while Star and Blackbeard continue to roam the universe.
Genre science fiction
Script ? [as Len Dodson]
Pencils Murphy Anderson (signed)
Inks Murphy Anderson (signed)
Reprinted from PLANET COMICS #41 - March, 1946.

8 page Space Rangers story "What a cargo! Reef rubbed his hands at..."

Characters The Space Rangers [Reef Ryan; Flint Baker]; Huldane (villain; introduction; dies); Igor
Synopsis Huldan escapes prison posing as a robot in a load of others being delivered by Reef. Flint follows and together they thwart a plot of Huldane's to transform women into plant-being slaves.
Genre science fiction
Script ? [as Hugh Fitzhugh]
Reprinted from PLANET COMICS #41 - March, 1946.