PLANET COMICS Volume 17

This series continues with the finest era of stories and art from the title. Lost World, Futura, Star Pirate, Mysta of the Moon and more by the legendary talents of Matt Baker, George Evans, Murphy Anderson, Graham Ingels, Maurice Whitman and others! This was THE best sci-fi comic of the 1940s, laying the groundwork for EC's stint, but still here with an eye to beautiful ladies, bug-eyed monsters and aliens, deep space adventures, and pulp-inspired stories. More contributors: Joe Doolin, Frank Doyle, and Enrico Bagnoli. Bagnoli is unknown today but this is the Italian artist who jumped into Planet with the finest strip of the later era: Futura. Futura opens on a beautiful girl lost in a world of the future, not so much unlike the world of the Fifth Element and Bladerunner. In episode after episode, she's on the run from strange creatures and evil men. She's not unlike future SF star Barbarella...feisty, learning on the fly, and soon leading a rebellion herself! Also includes great two-page "Life on Other Worlds" (1940s-style) by Murphy Anderson, which are always fun. Packed with crazy heroes and villains on far flung and distant planets, drawn by