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Planet comics was a golden age comic book published by fiction house from 1940 to 1953. He even won the jules verne prize for best science fiction story in 1933. Its comics division was best known for its pinupstyle good girl art, as epitomized by the companys most popular character, sheena, queen of the jungle. Planet, fight and jungle comics listing their favorite character from each magazine, or choose to send in 50 cents total to the publisher. Jul 29, 2016 i know that there is a fiction house thread and a space girls thread but surely planet deserves its own thread. This week, our artists paired sonic the hedgehog and sonicrelated characters with other comic book characters. Hamilton was known as a pioneer of the science fiction short story, and many of his stories ran in the anthology magazine weird tales.
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Debuting in january of 1940, planet comics was a comic book spinoff of planet stories, a pulp science fiction magazine. High quality slideshow of all 73 covers of planet comics, published by fiction house magazines between 1940 and 1953. The best site for downloading free public domain golden age comic books. Planet stories specialized in colorful and lurid stories of interstellar action, ingenious and attractive heroes and heroines, breezy dialogue. Supermans comic book reveal proves anonymity is impossible. This book has 52 pages and was uploaded by jonthescanner on november 18, 2010. Planet comics is deserving of its own thread golden age. Featured below are golden age comic books from wellknown pulp magazine publishers of the 1930s and 1940s. Flint baker, reef ryan, the space rangers, gale allen, and others, and a bevy of the most scantilyclad females youre likely to ever see in comics.
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