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Planet Comics 6 |
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Planet Comics #6 Universal |
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CGC 9.0 |
| Cert #: |
1236300001
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Planet Comics 10 |
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Planet Comics #10 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC 9.0 |
| Cert #: |
0985990029
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Owner Comments
Planet Comics #10 is the first Planet Cover drawn by Dan Zolnerowich. I just love all the detail on this cover and this one has a beautiful uninterupted black cover which makes all other colors stand out. The details on the inside are quite cool too. The cover is from a panel in the Flint Baker story. The Queen of Morog is the one to the far right of the cover. She is ruler of the Morogs which were described in the book as having 'Electric-Telo-Eyes' and that is what you see on the cover is the green men with electric shock bolts vibrantly protruding from their eyes. This story is good, and Flint actually calls the Queen a 'Gloomy Puss' at one point and near the end when he was chasing her down actually says, "I am going to spank a Queen." The Red Comet story is about a twentieth century man named Scaro who was taken out of hybernation in the twenty forth century only to find out he use to be a gangster. Does he revert to his old ways? You will have to read and see. Also a good Spurt Hammond story in this issue and in the Captain Nelson Cole story, He gets tangled up when Mars declares war on Jupiter. Lastly, Gale Allen rarely dissapoints, but this one I could do without. Her friend Captain Jack is being controlled by a mad man's hypnosis and he locks her up in a storage room and takes over the base on Venus. This story is mostly about how she escapes and she shakes Jack from the hypnosis in time to save the day. This book is extremely tough to find and especially in this condition with the Black cover which usually shows every defect, this one is just hard to imagine it being in nicer condition.
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Planet Comics 13 |
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Planet Comics #13 Universal |
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CGC 8.5 |
| Cert #: |
1029340001
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Owner Comments
Every comic has stories inside, and to collectors every special comic has a story about its acquisition. This book is a special one. Ever since I first saw #13 in the Gerber Journal, I knew that this was one cool book. What I did not know is that this issue is one of the top 5 hardest Planet Comics to find (IMHO). I searched dealer inventories, eBay, major auctions, etc. for #13 for years without even a sniff. I always looked wherever I could. One afternoon I was finishing up a deal on a few book over the phone when I asked the question that I had asked at least 100 times before…”You wouldn’t happen to have a Planet 13 lying around would you?” I just about fell over when the response was, “Well, actually I do and it’s a really nice one too.” After a scan was sent to me I made a phone call back and the book was purchased and on its way to me that afternoon. I read this one and submitted it to CGC. One bonus aspect about this book is its super bright and colorful back cover. Many comics have back covers that are basically blah, but not this one. There are several splash pages from this book’s interior that I would like to post here for the second scan, but I can’t bring myself to ousting the back cover. Speaking of interior, the stories in this issue are very good. Red Comet, an early Planet Comics staple, goes to Uranus to find that Queen Lura has been trapped in a magical globe and held hostage by a tyrant named Zorix. He fights Ice men with ski shaped feet, hurls Zorix “Screaming toward oblivion” within a magical globe as described in the comic, and eventually frees Lura to once again reign peace in Naru city. The Crash Parker story sends Crash to the planet Mercury to deliver Princess Vona back to her people from a visit to Earth. Gravity proves to be different on Mercury, so Crash is vastly superior to those that want Vona to stay gone. By the end of the story, Vona’s enemies are subdued and she wants Crash to stay on Mercury, but Crash thinks his responsibilities to the Universe are more important than romance. Lastly, the Reef Ryan story is one of the coolest drawn in the book. He is on Neptune, and Sarku has taken over the settlement there. One of the coolest pages is when they are fighting on a boat and Reef gets knocked overboard. Once in the water, Sarku tries to finish him off by throwing a jagged harpoon at Reef. Reef quickly grabs deadly shark swimming by and slings it in front of the harpoon. Sarku thinks the blood in the water is Reef. Next, Reef cunningly swims under the boat and resurfaces to surprise and defeat Sarku. The rightful Queen Vara is placed back on the throne and she too is very thankful to Reef.
Classic Cover, Classic Back Cover, Super cool stories and art inside, Desperately difficult to find issue. Planet Comics #13 is a 10 out of 10 for me.
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Planet Comics 14 |
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Planet Comics #14 Universal |
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CGC 6.0 |
| Cert #: |
1485513004
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Planet Comics 17 |
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Planet Comics #17 Universal |
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CGC 9.4 |
| Cert #: |
0039817016
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Planet Comics 19 |
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Planet Comics #19 Universal |
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CGC 9.6 |
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0039817018
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Planet Comics 20 |
| Item: |
Planet Comics #20 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC 8.5 |
| Cert #: |
0904809005
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Owner Comments
This one is the book that really got me into collecting Planet Comics. It was my first CGC book with a blue label. I have always thought pteradactyles were really cool creatures. My son who is 3 likes to point at all 4 of the prehistoric birds on the cover. The girl in the orange dress twisted with the green bird plus the yellow background make this Dan Zolnerowich cover truely great. I won this book in a Comiclink auction.
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Planet Comics 23 |
| Item: |
Planet Comics #23 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC 9.6 |
| Cert #: |
1486155001
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Planet Comics 25 |
| Item: |
Planet Comics #25 Apparent MP |
| Grade: |
CGC 5.0 |
| Cert #: |
0780773011
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Owner Comments
This book has a special place in my Planet collection. It was my first GA book that I ever bought. It has a super detalied cover. Lots of action starting with the backgound fight scene,planets and a rocket in the background, and the girl being startled by the upcoming alien monster. I even like the detail in the lower right corner where it looks like she was having a lizzard roast. I wonder if the one roasting is a distant cousin of the monster getting ready to attack her? Ha Ha Ha. Attached picture is the first page splast of Flint Baker. This is the last Flint Baker solo story. Starting in issue 26, Flint Baker and Reef Ryan story lines join forces creating a single story line. I have had a few chances to upgrade this one, but the sentimental aspect of this one outweights the registry points. It presents very well for a 5.0 mosly black cover.
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Planet Comics 26 |
| Item: |
Planet Comics #26 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC 9.0 |
| Cert #: |
1138234012
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Owner Comments
This issue has a great cover featuring fishmen, a triangle shaped sun, a damsel in distress, and her hero blasting a laser gun shot through a fishman in the background. What’s not to like about this one? This is the first issue in the run where it went down to 60 pages. Also, this is the first issue where the story lines of Flint Baker and Reef Ryan were combined into one story line from this issue on. Their story revolves around a villain named Brox who is leading a group of giant Neanderthal monsters. Either Flint or Reef saves the day in a twist, so you will have to read this one to figure out which one is the hero and gets the girl. In the Gale Allen story, she is sent to Margravia (you gotta love these crazy names) to deliver a pardon to a Scientist named Izmet. While there, the queen of the land takes issue with Gale and is set to execute her (scene on cover of issue) when Captain Saracen negotiates her release. This is one of the few times I can remember where the “bad guys” don’t get destroyed or even pay for their ruthless behavior. The people of Margravia all live to fight another day as Gale and the Captain fly off. Star Pirate story is good, but I just can’t get past his partner Trody and his one eye. Auro deals with the Purple People in his story. Mars, God of War is cool. In this one he takes over a man named Rex who is upset after not being named an officer on a space convoy expedition. His jealousy (and the fact he was possessed by Mars) is what drives him to start mutiny. In the end, Rex’s bad decisions come crumbling down on him as Mars escapes his body. My favorite, Lost World, is set in the ruins of New York City. Hunt and Lyssa are looking for oscillator tubes to fix an old radio to try and contact other planets for help against the Volta. Interesting panels in this story show the NY Naval yard, Lyssa faking a broken leg to escape, Volta using a carrier pigeon to communicate, Empire state building in ruins, two panels of arrows lodged into Volta men’s chest, and Volta men dying while being gassed with toxic flames. Old movie reels end up being a crucial part to this story, but your will have to read this one to figure out why, who, and how they are used. This issue is rated by Gerber as 7, so I am extra excited to own this one.
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Planet Comics 29 |
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Planet Comics #29 Universal |
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CGC 9.0 |
| Cert #: |
1109263013
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Owner Comments
This great copy of a tough Planet, took just over 3 months of negotiating to purchase. Between scan requests and price bantering back and forth, this one took a while to find a spot in my collection, but I am glad I own it now. The cover is from the Space Rangers story. In this story Flint Baker and Reef Ryan wind up helping a group of scientists who were stranded on the lost planet of Aztula. Men on flying dragons have been picking off the scientists one by one, until Flint and Reef get to the bottom of the issue and save the scientists. Norge Benson story is good. His group is first welcomed on planet Diablo by a man named Rojo. When they mistakenly meet others who were tricked and enslaved by Rojo to work in his boiling lava pits, the story takes a fun turn. This one ends in a wild “winner gets the girl and all possessions” duel between Rojo and Norge. How do you think this one ends? The Star Pirate story, yes it includes Brody with one eye, has them crash on an unknown planet when they run out of fuel, but ends when they discover the arrows used by the natives are made of pure Kobalium (The fuel needed for their space ship). They get the natives to attack them with the arrows, collect a few, jump inside the ship and lock the door, and then put the arrow heard in the “gas tank” and fly off.
Auro story has him aid the Namo (a colony only inhabited by women). Their water supply is being threatened so they go try and find out why the water is not flowing into their region. Once the problem is found, Auro is quickly captured and the Queen of Namo comes in and saves the day in a Wonder Woman like fashion. Auro is grateful and so are the people of Namo to have their water back. Gale Allen story is cool and it also has a “novel” type write up entitled “Is there a lost race beneath the Polar Cap?”
Mars story is great. It has Ted Wilson who is newly named a regional police constable on a territitory of the moon of Saturn. Once arriving to the area, he can’t help but notice the massive Temple to the local god. He enters to learn of the people, and is immediately smitten with the Head Priestess. After He sees the feelings are mutual, Mars takes control of her. Because of his love for her, Ted looks the other way and does not report that the Temple makes human sacrifices to a vicious creature called a Bloth (splash page in second scan). The human sacrifices grow to many humans a day and Ted finally stands up to the priestess. As Mars controlling her, she orders Ted thrown into the pit with the Bloth !! Somehow Ted manages to escape. Just then he learns that the entire Temple (60K people) are moving quickly to overtake the Earth’s military base. Ted manages to get the Bloth out of the sacrificial pit and directs it to run after the Temple disciples thus thwarting the attack on the base. The Bloth picks up the Temple Priestess and is poised to tear her body apart when Mars leaves her, as he always does before his victims die. Just then a ray blast from the military base kills the Bloth. Ted runs to the Priestess, now of clear mind she apologizes to Ted and it seems they will now live happily ever after. Mars’ victims almost never live, so this one took that extra twist and was surprising.
In The Lost World, Hunt and Lyssa run into a group of warriors in the area where California used to be. They all have blonde hair. Doesn’t everyone from California have blonde hair? No stereotype in this story! Anyway, they end up battling together to defeat “A god no man has ever seen.” In this one, Hunt fakes his death, rides an ancient Indian style motorcycle, Lyssa is almost sacrificed, arrows embedded into bad guys, and human sacrifices shown. Too many more twists to describe here, but I recommend you read it. This is truly a packed issue of Planet Comics.
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Planet Comics 30 |
| Item: |
Planet Comics #30 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC 9.4 |
| Cert #: |
0096948001
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Owner Comments
This was one of the first Planets that I read from cover to cover. There are some good stories and great artwork in this one. You can tell from the cover that the Lost World story is set in France. What you can't tell necessarily from the cover is the rest of the stories are great too. In Mars God of War, Mars uses a human brain emplanted in a giant bug-like robot to start a war between two neighboring planets. Gale Allen and her girl squadron run into trouble while checking up on a galactic beacon in the far corner of space. Gale and her crew end up in a giant web set by a moth man type creature. Do they escape?.....you'll have to read it for yourself. Finally, Flint Baker and his Space Rangers see through an evil plot by a seductively evil woman named Lotura, leader of an iron jaw army. Great reads, pick up a copy. I recommend it.
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Planet Comics 32 |
| Item: |
Planet Comics #32 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC 8.5 |
| Cert #: |
0302430002
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Owner Comments
It is safe to say that I look for Planet comics in person, on-line stores, eBay, auctions, etc. on a very consistent basis. Some books have features that cause me notice if the same exact book comes up for sale multiple times over several years. This is one such book. I first noticed it when a CGC board member showed it to me as CGC 9.0 in old style cgc holder. At that time it wasn't for sale, but he sold it (when I had no funds) and I did not see it for a couple years and it sold in a comiclink auction (It was now in a 9.0 new cgc holder with grade on far left) and I was the under bidder. Then in a strange turn of events, it came up for auction in the new newest cgc holder as an 8.5. Weird, but good for me because I won it at auction this time. My second picture shows the full stories for Mars, god of war and Space Rangers. I understand it can't be read due to size, but can see the style of story layout style in the middle of the Planet run. This issue also features stories drawn by Lily Renee and one of my new favorites Fran Hopper. As an added bonus Joe Dooin has work in here too. All in all, a great book front to back. Happy to own this copy that I have seen from afar for years. Missed it on he first and second tries, but now am glad to own.
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Planet Comics 33 |
| Item: |
Planet Comics #33 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC 9.4 |
| Cert #: |
0096948002
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Owner Comments
This is one of my favorite books. I really like the cover to this one, and it is very tough to find in high grade in some part due to it's mostly black cover. It has my two favorite Planet characters on the cover Hunt Bowman and Lyssa. The story inside shows how they hijack a Volta ship to get back to America. They are apprehended by a Volta squadron who want to test a new gas weapon on the humans. The final panels to the story will show you if the weapons were successful. A good read worth finding out the ending. Also in this one is a well drawn story of Gale Allen and her girl squadron when they do some investigative work on planet Aquos, a mostly water planet. The inhabitants try and fool Gale about their intentions, but Gale figures out their scheme.
Also, Mars God of war is a very entertaining read.
I did own a 9.2 copy before this one and I can wholeheartedly say that there is a big difference in this 9.4 and my prior copy that is seen by the eye and worth much more than a .2 bump in grade. I paid much more for this 9.4 than I did the prior copy and after seeing this one in person, I have not regretted trading up for a minute. There is a great gloss and boldness to the cover colors that just can't be put into words. This is a great copy of a classic Planet Comics.
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Planet Comics 34 |
| Item: |
Planet Comics #34 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC 7.0 |
| Cert #: |
1479130002
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