PLANET COMICS comic books issue 1

Cover by Mike Vosburg. Written by Sean Russell, Mark Fenton and David Hutchison. Art by Mike Vosburg, Brian Rogers and David Hutchison. Just in time for its 80th anniversary, Planet Comics is blasting off once again, with a trinary system of stellar stories to celebrate! Sean Russell and legendary comics artist Mike Vosburg deliver the derring-do of Spurt Hammond: Planet Flyer as he strives to save a stranded princess from a pursuing beast in "Enter...Neutra Chrome!" Plus: In "Space Sucks or How I Learned to Love the Night," Mark Fenton and Brian Rogers show what happens when a malfunction occurs at an orbital prison housing highly dangerous criminals, threatening the world below. Also: "Subterfuge" by David Hutchison, reprinted from Steam Wars Bounty Hunters (2015 Antarctic Press) #1. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.

Cover by Will Meugniot. Written by Sean Russell, Mark Fenton and David Hutchison. Art by Mike Vosburg, Brian Rogers and David Hutchison. Just in time for its 80th anniversary, Planet Comics is blasting off once again, with a trinary system of stellar stories to celebrate! Sean Russell and legendary comics artist Mike Vosburg deliver the derring-do of Spurt Hammond: Planet Flyer as he strives to save a stranded princess from a pursuing beast in "Enter...Neutra Chrome!" Plus: In "Space Sucks or How I Learned to Love the Night," Mark Fenton and Brian Rogers show what happens when a malfunction occurs at an orbital prison housing highly dangerous criminals, threatening the world below. Also: "Subterfuge" by David Hutchison, reprinted from Steam Wars Bounty Hunters (2015 Antarctic Press) #1. And for the cover of #1B, illustrator and animator Will Meugniot (Exosquad, DNAgents, Batman: TAS) provides a trio of daring damsels in danger from a flying saucer striking their ship! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $9.99.

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Cover art by Lou Fine. "The One-Eyed Monster Men from Mars," script and art by Dick Briefer; Flint has completed the rocket ship begun by his father and is ready to take off for Mars, but first has three prison convicts freed to serve as his crew; They land on Mars and find the corpse of a former explorer, who leaves a letter warning anyone finding his note to stay away from the dark side of Mars. Untitled story, art by Malcolm Kildale; After a rocket ship crash that kills his parents, Auro is raised by a saber-tooth tiger; He is approached by a young woman named Martha to help save her friends who have been taken as slaves by the fiendish ruler of Neptune. Untitled story, script by Ken Jackson; While the public is amazed and elated that no crimes have been committed for two weeks, the Police feel that their jobs are less secure because of the crime busting activities of the Red Comet; His magical powers seem to draw him like a magnet to the criminal element. Untitled story, art by Alex Blum (as Alex Boon); The loss of several Solar Ships forces the President of the Solar Congress to appoint Captain Cole to lead a force against the enemies from outer space. "The War Lords of the Moon," art by Henry Kiefer; Spurt and his companions must fend off the attacks of the Luzerons, who occupy the polar regions of the Moon. Untitled story; Buzz and his crew must face the Sharkmen, semi-intelligent living under the murky waters of Neptune. "The Man Who Stole a World!", art by Alvin Charles (as Albert Charles); A former Earth scientist takes up residence on a far distant planetoid, and threatens to rule the universe and destroy all traces of civilization. 68 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Written by Joe Satriani, Tony Lee. Art and Cover by Richard Friend. A vivid space odyssey where Satchel Walker, a man out of time, finds himself caught between desperate factions as they battle for resources in the perilous orbit of a dying star. It's music, and more importantly the power and emotion that music can conjure, which could bring an end to the conflict, restore harmony to the timestream, and reveal Walker's true place in the universe. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $4.99.

Limited 1 for 5 Retailer Incentive Variant Cover. Photo Cover. Written by Joe Satriani, Tony Lee. Art by Richard Friend. A vivid space odyssey where Satchel Walker, a man out of time, finds himself caught between desperate factions as they battle for resources in the perilous orbit of a dying star. It's music, and more importantly the power and emotion that music can conjure, which could bring an end to the conflict, restore harmony to the timestream, and reveal Walker's true place in the universe. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $4.99.

Limited 1 for 10 Retailer Incentive Variant Cover. Written by Joe Satriani, Tony Lee. Art by Richard Friend. Cover by Joe Satriani. A vivid space odyssey where Satchel Walker, a man out of time, finds himself caught between desperate factions as they battle for resources in the perilous orbit of a dying star. It's music, and more importantly the power and emotion that music can conjure, which could bring an end to the conflict, restore harmony to the timestream, and reveal Walker's true place in the universe. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $4.99.

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Foil Cover by Richard Friend - limited to 1998 copies. Written by Joe Satriani, Tony Lee. Art by Richard Friend. A vivid space odyssey where Satchel Walker, a man out of time, finds himself caught between desperate factions as they battle for resources in the perilous orbit of a dying star. It's music, and more importantly the power and emotion that music can conjure, which could bring an end to the conflict, restore harmony to the timestream, and reveal Walker's true place in the universe. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $19.98.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. "January to March 1940!" Collects Planet Comics (1940-1953 Fiction House) #1-3.

Written by Dick Briefer, Ken Jackson, Henry Kiefer, Herman Bolstein, Fletcher Hanks, and Carmine Infantino. Art by Dick Briefer, Malcolm Kildale, Alex Blum, Alvin Charles, George Tuska, Arthur Peddy, R. Louis Golden, Lou Fine, Malcolm Kildale, Ken Jackson, Bob Powell, Leonard Frank, and Will Eisner. Cover by Will Eisner.

And here's another title in PS Artbooks yummy Softee series, this time in the guise of Fiction House's Planet Comics, featuring issues #1-3 (January to March 1940).

Writers and artists include Lou Fine, Dick Briefer, Malcolm Kildale, Ken Jackson, Alex Blum, Henry Kiefer, Alvin Charles, Will Eisner, George Tuska, Arthur Peddy, Bob Powell, Fletcher Hanks and R. Louis Golden plus more fins and headlights than you'd ever see in the world's biggest motor show and more gigantic teeth than ever made it into a dentistry lab.

Softcover, 216 pages, full color.

Cover price $24.99.

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Planet Terry is searching the galaxy for his parents even though he doesn't know who they are or what they look like, and while searching he helps out a planet with problems and finds some friends, Robota and Omnus, and some clues to his parents' whereabouts in a four-part story, "The Search," "A Clue," "Some Answers," and "Malt Shop Menace." Script by Lennie Herman and art by Warren Kremer & Vince Colletta. Cover price $0.65.

Written by Paul Tobin. Art and Cover by Arjuna Susini. Welcome to planet Heist! It's the cutthroat capital of the entire Nehring System, home to billions of the worst men and women in the galaxy. The Pan-Galactic government has no idea what to do with the planet, but conman Glane Breld and his band of thieves know exactly what to do with Heist-they're going to steal it. It's Ocean's Eleven in space, brought to you by writer Paul Tobin (Colder and Bandette) and Arjuna Susini (The Replacer)-the only minds crazy enough to steal an entire world.c Cover price $3.99.

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Written by Paul Tobin. Art by Arjuna Susini. Cover by Nathan Gooden and Tim Daniel. Welcome to planet Heist! It's the cutthroat capital of the entire Nehring System, home to billions of the worst men and women in the galaxy. The Pan-Galactic government has no idea what to do with the planet, but conman Glane Breld and his band of thieves know exactly what to do with Heist-they're going to steal it. It's Ocean's Eleven in space, brought to you by writer Paul Tobin (Colder and Bandette) and Arjuna Susini (The Replacer)-the only minds crazy enough to steal an entire world. 28 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.

Stories by Bruce Jones. Art by Adrian Moro, Ken Hooper and Rico Rival. Cover by Dave Stevens. Blackthorne Publishing resurrects the original Planet Comics title published by Fiction House in the 1940s-50s. Writer Bruce Jones even revives Matt Baker's gypsy adventurer, Flamingo, and original Planet Comics heroes Bowman and Lyssa, Queen of the Lost World, battling the reptilian Voltamen to free Earth. Featuring a great cover by beloved good-girl artist (and Rocketeer creator) Dave Stevens. Hunt Bowman in The Lost World; Flamingo; Secret Circle. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $2.00.

Spanish Reprint series. Reprints material from Excalibur (1988 1st Series) #1. 32 pages, full color, 7.5" x 10.5", Spanish language.

Limited Signed Edition - Volume 1 - 1st printing. Written by Carmine Infantino. Art and Cover by Dick Briefer. Forward by Carmine Infantino. The first volume of the "out of this furshlugginer world" adventures of the awe-filled Planet Comics presents stories that appeared from Fiction House over a thirteen-year period ending in 1953. They're all here - Flint Baker, Reef Ryan, The Space Rangers, Gale Allen, Star Pirate, Mysta of the Moon, Norge Benson, plus many more and a bevy of the most scantily-clad females you're likely to see outside of Silvio Dante's Bada Bing strip joint in The Sopranos. This volume collects the first four issues from January 1940 to April 1940. Hardcover (with Slipcase), 7-in. 10-in., 288 pages, full color. Cover price $159.95.

NOT Signed Edition - Volume 1 - 1st printing. Written by Carmine Infantino. Art and Cover by Dick Briefer. Forward by Carmine Infantino. The signed and slipcased copies of Planet Comics Volume 1 went out of here faster than an interplanetary proton drive. PS Artbooks now offers a slipcased but unsigned version, limited to 150 unsigned slipcased copies. Collects issues #1-4 (January to April 1940) of the original title from Fiction House. Hardcover (with Slipcase), 7-in. 10-in., 288 pages, full color. NOTE: Limited to 150 copies. Cover price $64.95.

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Written by Jeffrey Burandt. Art and Cover by Sean Von Dorman. A family of deep space explorers rushes to solve the mystery of Ghost Planet before their recently-dead loved ones return to kill them next! Murder birds, eye stalks and space pigs abound in this 40-page graphic novella. Ghost Planet is a classic sci-fi tale with a body horror twist. Cover price $5.99.

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Add to cart Near Mint $4.30

Written by Jeffrey Burandt. Art by Sean Von Dorman. Cover by Mike Allred, Laura Allred. A family of deep space explorers rushes to solve the mystery of Ghost Planet before their recently-dead loved ones return to kill them next! Murder birds, eye stalks and space pigs abound in this 40-page graphic novella. Ghost Planet is a classic sci-fi tale with a body horror twist. Retailer Incentives: Retailers purchasing ten copies of Cover A (1:10) of GHOST PLANET can unlock unlimited copies of Cover B by MIKE AND LAURA ALLRED. Please reach out to your CS rep with questions about retailer incentives. Cover price $5.99.

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Cover by Lou Fine. Edited by Steve Schanes and Bill Schanes. Stories by Orson Herr and Dick Charles. Art by Arthur Peddy, Richard Golden, Courtney Thomason, Harry Kiefer, and Rafael Astarita. Published by Blue Dolphin Enterprises, Inc., a sister company to Pacific Comics. A black and white reprint collecting stories from the classic 1940s sci-fi series Planet Comics. Includes nine stories from Planet Comics Planet Comics (1940 Fiction House) #5, plus one story from #25. Flint Baker helps an ancient race relocate to a young world; Auro, Lord of Jupiter battles dinosaurs and a sabre-tooth tiger; Captain Nelson Cole of the Solar Force uncovers an arms dealer's plot to start a war for profit. Flint Baker: Adventures on a New World; Auro Lord of Jupiter; The Red Comet; Captain Nelson Cole of the Solar Force; Spurt Hammond; Buzz Crandall of the Space Patrol; Space Admiral Curry in the Doomed Universe; Fero Planet Detective; Auro Lord of Jupiter: Life-Drinkers! Squarebound,72 pages, B&W. Cover price $5.95.

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Reprints Planet Comics 70 (cover from Attack on Planet Mars). "The Lost World" (art by L. Renee), Gale Allen, Star Pirate, and Space Rangers. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Near Mint $36.00

Add to cart Near Mint $36.00

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Volume 1 - 1st printing.

Written by Carmine Infantino. Art and Cover by Dick Briefer.

The first volume of the "out of this furshlugginer world" adventures of the awe-filled Planet Comics presents stories that appeared from Fiction House over a thirteen-year period ending in 1953. They're all here - Flint Baker, Reef Ryan, The Space Rangers, Gale Allen, Star Pirate, Mysta of the Moon, Norge Benson, plus many more and a bevy of the most scantily-clad females you're likely to see outside of Silvio Dante's Bada Bing strip joint in The Sopranos.

This volume collects the first four issues from January 1940 to April 1940. Forward by Carmine Infantino.

Hardcover, 7-in. 10-in., 288 pages, full color.

Cover price $47.99.

1st printing. Story and art by Box Brown. Stories of science fiction and mental exploration from Box Brown, New York Times-bestselling author of Andre the Giant: Life and Legend. Lizard aliens! New Physics! Electromages! Wastelands! Star Warrior robots! Social media cults! And pizza! Softcover, 6 1/2-in. x 8-in., 152 pages, full color. Cover price $12.00.

Add to cart Near Mint $10.00

Add to cart Near Mint $10.00

Volume 1 - 1st printing. Collects Heist Or How to Steal a Planet (2019 Vault Comics) #1-8.

Written by Paul Tobin. Art and cover by Arjuna Susini.

Welcome to planet Heist!

It's the cutthroat capital of the entire Nehring System, home to billions of the worst men and women in the galaxy. The Pan-Galactic government has no idea what to do with the planet, but conman Glane Breld and his band of thieves know exactly what to do with Heist-they're going to steal it.

It's Ocean's Eleven in space, brought to you by writer Paul Tobin (Colder and Bandette) and Arjuna Susini (The Replacer)-the only minds crazy enough to steal an entire world.

Softcover, 192 pages, full color.

Cover price $19.99.

Spanish reprint series. Spanish language. Reprints Giant Size X-Men (1975)

Spanish reprint series. Second Edition (Segunda Edicion) Reprints Giant Size X-Men (1975). 36 Pages, Full Color, Spanish Language.

1st printing.

Written by Andrea Amenta and Stefano Cardoselli. Art and cover by Stefano Cardoselli.

In the future, wars are waged over conquest of entire systems and galaxies. Lead by corporations, dominion there is a race to control all mining and farming properties. Jason, a soldier at the mercy of this endless conflict, must do their bidding and fight in these seemingly never-ending wars. As the last survivor of his unit on the surface of an enormous planet, the memory of Grace, his wife, is the only thing that keeps him sane and it is his singular goal to make it back to her. After a long and dangerous journey, he will find a way back to earth and to an awful truth that the war has beaten him there.

Softcover, 136 pages, full color.

Cover price $16.99.

1st printing. Story and art by Karine Bernadou. At the edge of a magical wood, a little girl named Canopy grows up with her family. When she is grown her mother makes her venture into the dark forest on her own, where she encounters a loving ogre, sirens, and a man without a face... all while trying to discover herself and grow into a woman. Interspersed with stories of her relationship with her father, Canopy is a fantastic fable told with Karine Bernadou's amazing cartoon pantomime style. Softcover, 7-in. x 9-in., 80 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $15.00.

Spanish language reprint series. This issue reprints material from X-Factor (1986 1st Series) #1

Story and art by Zejian Shen. 48 pages, B&W, 5.5" x 9". Cover price $6.00.

Cover by Lou Fine. Edited by Roger Broughton. Stories by Walt Scott, Thomas Marlen, Jed Ganey, Beekman Terrill, Orson Herr, Bob Jordan, Starr Gayza and Allison Brant (all probably pseudonyms). Art by Bob Powell, Don Rico, Henry Kiefer and Arthur Peddy. A collection of sci-fi tales from classic 1940s science fiction comic Planet Comics, collected by latter-day Canadian publisher Avalon/ACG. The first all-science-fiction comic book, the stories feature staunch all-American space heroes, scantily clad damsels in distress, and of course, bug-eyed monsters from other worlds. Flint Baker: Adventures on a New World…; Auro Lord of Jupiter; The Red Comet; Captain Nelson Cole of the Solar Force; Spurt Hammond; Buzz Crandall of the Space Patrol; Space Admiral Curry in the Doomed Universe; Fero, Planet Detective. 48 pages, B&W. Cover price $5.95.

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Canadian edition with $.75 cover price - Planet Terry is searching the galaxy for his parents even though he doesn't know who they are or what they look like, and while searching he helps out a planet with problems and finds some friends, Robota and Omnus, and some clues to his parents' whereabouts in a four-part story, "The Search," "A Clue," "Some Answers," and "Malt Shop Menace." Script by Lennie Herman and art by Warren Kremer & Vince Colletta. 32 pages, FC. All Ages Cover price $0.75.

Spanish reprint series. Reprints material from Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars (1984) #1 and Moon Knight (1980 1st Series) #35. 36 pages, full color, 7.5" x 10.5", Spanish Language.

1st printing. Story and art by Paloma Dawkins. Summerland is the story of Santana and her cousin Gwen who work on a play with Chucho while all three are vacationing, created by the animator Paloma Dawkins, who works in a riotous color palette. Softcover, 48 pages, full color. Cover price $9.00.

B & W Philly Ashcan Preview Edition limited to 5000 copies. Cover price $2.00.

1st Printing. This volume reprints of material from Amazing Fantasy (1962) #15, Amazing Spider-Man (1963 1st Series) #1-5, Strange Tales (1951-1976 1st Series) Annual #2, and Fantastic Four (1961 1st Series) Annual #1. 164 pages, B&W, 5.75" x 8.25", Spanish language.

1st printing.

An anthology of short comics by local Washington, DC, Virginia, and Maryalnd artists, as well as some other cool people from around the United States!

Softcover, 48 pages, full color. Cover price $5.00.

1st printing.

Cover byKendall Goode.

A comic antholoyg featuring 15 artists from or working in the DMV - Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia.

Softcover, 56 pages, full color. Cover price $6.00.

1st printing. The photo cover guide to Planet Comics. Featuring covers for Planet Comics (1940-1953 Fiction House) #1-73. Art by Will Eisner, Lou Fine, Murphy Anderson, Bob Powell, Zolnerowich, and others. Checklist of artist cover credits. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 64 pages, B&W. Cover price $7.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $6.00

Add to cart Fine $7.70

1st printing. Story and art by Steven Weissman. This collection of Steven "Ribs" Weissman's material shows off his wide diversity, from comics, illustrations, sketchbook pages, Stinckers art, and all things in between. Prepare for stories about Guns and Roses opening a deli, Chatso the Talking Dog (who does stand up comedy), and lovable rabbits living in a strange wasteland and taking acid! Softcover, 96 pages, full color. Cover price $13.00.

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Spanish Series. Reprints material from Cloak and Dagger (1985 Marvel 2nd Series) #1-2. 36 pages, full color, Spanish language.

This series reprints various stories from Career Girl Romances (1966). In this issue; "The Girl Who Didn't Need Love", "Telephone Darling", "Another Way to a Man's Heart", "Beware of His Kisses", "Never Waste Your Kisses", "Remember Me?", "Too Soon for Kisses", "Just Pals", "Julie Plays a Role", "Love Wears no Uniform", and "Male Call". 80 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.60.

1st printing. Story and art by Zach Hazard Vaupen. Three short stories by Zach Hazard Vaupen centered around themes of emotional and spiritual confusion, cannibalism, suicides, and the reality of God: "The Lonely Autocannibal the Scientist," "Bodhisattva," and "The Real Jesuses." Softcover, 7-in. x 9-in., 44 pages, B&W. Cover price $6.00.

Spanish reprint of Conan the Barbarian (1970 Marvel) #1. 28 Pages, Full Color, Spanish Language.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. Stories by Harold Godwin and Russell Keaton. Art by Russell Keaton and Frank Godwin. Cover by Frank Godwin. The sixth volume of Pacific Comics Club's reprints of the forgotten comic strip. Created by master illustrator Frank Godwin, Connie featured the first female adventure hero in American comics. This issue includes her Mars adventure from 1938, plus the bonus feature Flyin' Jenny, a female adventurer strip by Russell Keaton. Softcover (Horizontal Format), 8 1/2-in. x 12-in., 48 pages, B&W. Cover price $14.95.

Spanish reprint series. Spanish language. Reprints issues 1-2 of Tomb of Dracula (1972 1st Series).

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1st printing. Story and art by James Kochalka. When the incredibly conceited Elf Cat goes on a quest for the Ice Sword with his magical friend Tennis Ball, they will face dragons, magical hot dogs, snowflake princesses, and confront their feelings! If you find love in many places, can you see it when it is right in front of you? Hardcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 100 pages, B&W. Cover price $15.00.

Spanish series. Reprints material from Fantastic Four (1961 1st Series) #1-2. Softcover, 56 pages, full color, Spanish language.