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Cover: Dan Zolnerowich
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Planet Comics #23

Mar 1943 · Fiction House · 0.10 USD
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This 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.

Contains 9 stories
Untitled Science Fiction story
8 pp · Science Fiction
Black Morgan (villain, introduction, death)Vesta (villain, introduction)Jack (introduction)Ann (introduction)Ann's family (introduction)the High Interplanetary Council (introduction)the President of Earth (introduction)Rogell (introduction, death)
Lizard Tyrant of the Twilight World
8 pp · Science Fiction
Barda (villain)Freda (introduction, villain)Kragg and another thug (both introduction, death)the Werewile (introduction, death, villain)Tabess of Xalan (guest star)Reef RyanVara
Untitled Science Fiction story
8 pp · Science Fiction
Script ? [as Leonardo Vinci]
Magnus (introduction, death, villain)Gelda (introduction)Star PirateTrodyAxor
Untitled Science Fiction story
7 pp · Science Fiction
Capt. Saracen (introduction, villain)Viceroy of Vanam City (introduction)Gale AllenMaurdez
Untitled Science Fiction story
8 pp · Science Fiction
Basil (villain)the Pale People (introduction, villain)Voltamen (villain)an old man (introduction)Queen LyssaHunt Bowman
100 Years After
2 pp · Science Fiction
Skip ComptonMyersColcord

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.

Untitled Science Fiction story
6 pp · Science Fiction
Basto (introduction, death, villain)Swampmen (introduction, villain)Meena (introduction)
Untitled Science Fiction story
5.67 pp · Science Fiction
Jolie (guest star)Master Gree (introduction, death, villain)Norge BensonHatrack (deer)Frosting (bear)
Untitled Science Fiction story
8 pp · Science Fiction
Script ? [as Huxley Haldane]
Zilkor (introduction, death, villain)a mobile fungus (introduction)old prospector (introduction)Flint BakerMimi

ComicBooks.com Value

Our Model is In Beta
Raw (Good) $364
CGC 9.6 · 1 in census $11,805*
CGC 9.4 none in existence
CGC 9.2 · 1 in census $5,175
CGC 9.0 none in existence
CGC 8.5 · 4 in census $2,605
CGC 8.0 · 3 in census $1,720
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CGC 7.5 · 3 in census $1,478
CGC 7.0 · 3 in census $1,232
CGC 6.5 · 1 in census $1,031*
CGC 6.0 · 3 in census $826
CGC 5.5 · 2 in census $773
CGC 5.0 · 3 in census $773
CGC 4.5 · 2 in census $606
CGC 4.0 · 3 in census $502
CGC 3.5 none in existence
CGC 3.0 · 4 in census $353
CGC 2.5 · 2 in census $338*
CGC 2.0 none in existence
CGC 1.5 · 1 in census $221*
CGC 1.0 · 1 in census $185*
CGC 0.5 · 1 in census $140
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Cast · 3 characters

Full credits

artist, inker Joe Doolin
cover pencils, inks Dan Zolnerowich

Reprints

Reprinted in Planet Comics #2 (1951), Gale Allen and the Girl Squadron #3

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