Planet Comics #23
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis anthology issue features multiple science fiction stories set across alien worlds. "Reef Ryan and Princess Vara" follow adventurers battling a scaled scourge in Neptune's dusk-kingdom in "Lizard Tyrant of the Twilight World," where they navigate Martian terrain and encounter hostile alien creatures. Another story involves space explorers crash-landing on a hostile planet engulfed in flames, where they struggle to escape the inferno and find refuge. A third narrative follows characters through a futuristic Martian city, where they are captured by green alien beings and taken to a factory before being rescued by mysterious masked figures from the Aurora Borealis Manufacturing Company.
In the year 2041, young Skip Compton learns the centennial story of Pearl Harbor from his grandfather—a 114-year-old spacefarer who reveals how war bonds funded humanity's first voyage to Mars in 1953. As the old pilot spins his tale of those early days of interplanetary exploration alongside Captain Myers and Pilot Colcord, Skip discovers the roots of his family's legacy stretches back a hundred years to Earth's darkest hours.
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Reprinted in Planet Comics #2 (1951), Gale Allen and the Girl Squadron #3
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