Planet Comics #11

Fiction House's Planet Comics was pulp sci-fi at its most vivid, and this Winter 1941 issue delivers a cover that crackles with alien menace. Nick Cardy's pencils and Gene Fawcette's inks depict a space-suited hero wielding a ray gun while a red-clad woman reaches toward him — both surrounded by a swarm of grotesque green insectoid creatures brandishing spears across a jagged alien landscape. The teaser "Can Their Brain-Waves Conquer Space?" promises the featured story "The Mentalists of Mars," alongside returning favorites Red Comet, Flint Baker, and Gale Allen — plenty of interplanetary adventure packed into one 10-cent package.