RED COMET INTERPLANETARY ADVENTURES

Red Comet appeared in approximately the first 20 issues of Fiction House’s famous Science Fiction anthology title “Planet Comics” circa 1941. It was only here in the UK 20 years later however that he got his own comic. The UK Atlas Publishing (no relation to the Timely/Marvel Atlas) produced 9 monthly issues in 1961/1962.

They contained 28 pages of black and white reprints featuring Fiction House characters such as Red Comet, Auro Lord of Jupiter and Gale Allen at 6d a throw (although oddly, issue No 5 doesn’t contain a single Red Comet story despite him being the title character !).

The covers are unique to the UK even though the original American Planet Comics covers were usually far better, often showing mini-skirted girls of the future (with 1940s hairstyles) being carried away by gruesome aliens.

(Reproduced from the terrific magicrobot site. Check it out!)