Planet Comics #12

Cover by John Celardo. Edited by Malcolm Reiss and Gene Fawcette. Stories and art by Dan Zolnerowich, Pierce Rice, Arturo Cazeneuve, Don Lynch, Don Rico, Al Walker, Al Gabriele, and Nick Cardy. The first true science fiction comic, Planet Comics featured classic space opera with square-jawed heroes, rockets, rayguns and bug-eyed aliens of every stripe. The debut of comedy relief Norge Benson, a space cadet with a knack for getting everything wrong; The debut of the heroic outlaw of the spaceways, The Star Pirate; The Red Comet uses his size-changing powers to battle the armored giants of Saturn. Nicely composed cover by John Celardo. The Red Comet; Gale Allen; Auro Lord of Jupiter; Crash Parker; Spurt Hammond; The Outlaw Amazons of Saturns Twelfth Moon; Slaver of the Space Lanes; The Queen of the Red Degmen; Norge Benson; The Star Pirate; The Two-Faced Monsters of Planetoid Zero.