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#4

Planet Comics #4

Market Value

Graded copies for sale
$169 - $10,200
20 graded copies listed, as of Sep 29, 2026

CGC Census

52
Total Graded
0
9.8 NM/MT
3
8.0 VF
Reprinted 4x

On their way back to Earth, Flint and Mimi are attacked by a space monster as they pass the planet Jupiter, and when others threaten,the crew decides to land on Jupiter. There they face the threat of the Great Eye, the Great Ear and the Great Mouth.

Cover Date

April 1, 1940

On Sale Date

February 26, 1940

Pages

68

Cover Price

$0.10

Editor

S. M. Iger

Characters

an unnamed dictator to be (villain, introduction); Auro; Bull's-Eye Bannon; Captain Jack North (Universal Space Patrol member, introduction); Captain Kenny Carr (introduction); Captain Nelson Cole; Clarence Dean (Earl's younger son); Doctor Curan [aka Curran]; Dr. Zynnon (villain, introduction, death); Dwight (Carr's service buddy); enemy soldiers (villains, half die); Felon (villain); Fletcher \"Flint\" Baker; Gale Allen and the Women's Space Battalion (introduction for all); Hardwich; Janice Dale (introduction); Jano (Prince of Saturn, introduction); Jim Giant (introduction); Lieutenant Buzz Crandall; Mercurian pirates (villains, introduction for all); Mimi Wilson; Miss Kane (a nurse); Nora Earl (Dean's daughter-in-law); Parks (crew member); Sandra Curan (the doctor's daughter); space monsters (villains, creatures, some die); Spurt Hammond; the Great Ear (villain, introduction); the Great Eye (villain, introduction, death?); the Great Mouth (villain, introduction); The Plutonians (villains, introduction for all, some die); The Red Comet; Thogra (villain, Jano's uncle, a Saturnian, introduction, death); unnamed colonel; unnamed Earth explorers

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