Planet Stories

Atlas Publishing’s Planet Stories (1961–present, 13 issues) was a short-lived but evocative sci-fi comic series, most frequently scripted by the pseudonymous Don Varick. Blending pulp adventure with cosmic horror, it offered standalone tales of alien worlds, lost civilizations, and strange technologies. Though its run was brief, the series stands as a curious artifact of early-1960s genre comics, capturing the era’s fascination with space exploration and the unknown.