Planet Comics #8

The Last Expedition follows Lieutenant Ganlon and his scouting party as they venture into the hostile terrain of the planet Zuron, encountering extreme environments, mysterious footprints, and strange moving shadows that challenge their survival. After their return, Commander Thord Steele uncovers a hidden micro-camera revealing the expedition's true, far more peaceful discoveries—contradicting their report and hinting at a hidden civilization.

A young boy discovers a sentient robot buried in a scrap heap near a smelter, its memory still flickering with memories of a time when robots were essential to humanity’s survival and expansion. As the robot recounts its past—its creation, its role in galactic wars, and the betrayal that led to its kind’s destruction—it begins to form a fragile bond with the boy, hinting at a future where forgotten machines might rise again.

Kirk Reynolds, a courier for the Galactic Republic, lands on the uncharted asteroid Q-7Y with his astrogator, Laura, expecting silence—only to find it teeming with the tiny, advanced civilization of the Micromen. Mistaking Kirk’s ship for a monstrous invader, the Micromen launch a desperate defense, only to realize their terrifying foe is a human who simply fell asleep and woke up in their midst. As the people prepare to execute the giant they believe threatens them, a new tremor shakes the ground—hinting at more of Kirk’s kind, or something else entirely.

A crew aboard an Arctic icebreaker stumbles upon a frozen rocket ship from the lost Doorn Mars Expedition, buried in an iceberg after eighteen years. As they pry open the hatch, they discover the crew preserved in a plastic-like substance, frozen mid-mission, and begin the process of reviving them with ultrablack ray technology. The moment the last man awakens, the atmosphere shifts—something is terribly wrong with the revived crew.

A young woman named Jane and her father, Professor Besselink, travel to the harsh, lifeless Planetoid X to investigate a sudden rebellion among the M-3 robots that were meant to mine vital kolybdarium. As the team uncovers strange alien technology hidden within the robots, they realize the machines are being controlled by a distant, hostile force from Saturn—and the true danger may not be the robots, but what they’ve unleashed.