#Planet Stories

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"Sword of the Seven Suns" Planet Stories #30 (1947) Cover by Allen Anderson

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Planet Stories Sep 1951

Allen Gustav Anderson

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Planet Stories, September 1952 cover by Herman Vestal

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Vintage Pulp - Planet Stories (Fall1943)

Art by Jerome G. Rozen

Fiction House

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5 Random Pulps

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Planet Stories March, 1951 issue. Cover by Allen Anderson.

The cover story, Black Amazon of Mars by Leigh Brackett, was an Eric John Stark episode, his final appearance in a magazine until Brackett revived the character in the 1970s. The aforementioned Black Amazon, featured so prominently on the cover, begins as Stark's antagonist but ends up an ally.

The attitudes of the time did not allow for Stark (the guy with the sword) to be depicted as Brackett described him. Stark had Caucasian features, but his skin was almost pitch black from having been raised on the surface of Mercury with its close proximity to the Sun.

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Ed Emshwiller - "Mars Minus Bisha" by Leigh Brackett, Planet Stories January 1954

Source

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Planet Stories, March 1953 Art by Allen Anderson

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Great covers from Planet Stories featuring empowering women.

If you knew about the artists behind those, please let me know!

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Planet Stories - Summer 1949

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Split-second

Dpxdc Prompt #24

It had only taken a split-second for the reality of the situation to set in. Martha Wayne, her husband, and her son were being threatened by a mugger wanting their belongs holding a gun.

Thomas—kind, peaceful, sweet Thomas—had attempted to diffuse the situation.

It didn't work.

Her husband was on the floor, dying, and she was a widow-to-be.

She screamed.

The mugger turned to her and shot, about to leave her little Brucie an orphan.

Then, for a split-second, everything felt strange, the bullet went right through her skin and she felt light in a way she hadn't felt in years.

The mugger was confused, Martha used that moment of confusion to pick up her shellshocked son and run out of the alley.

As soon as she got home she pushed past a concerned Alfred and turned on the news. Phantom, a hero from the town of Amity Park, had turned the entire planet intangible to stop them from being destroyed by an asteroid.

It just so happened to line up with when she had been shot at. It was only for a split-second, but it had changed the course of her and her son's lives forever.

When he and Mom got home from the theatre from his Dad's murder Mom had immediately rushed to the television.

Phantom, the news called the teenage hero, savior of the world. But for Bruce it was different, Phantom hadn't just saved the world.

Phantom had saved Mom.

Later as Bruce poured over articles about the ghost, anything to distract him from the Manor being emptier than it should, he realized Phantom did a lot to help around his own town too.

He had been saving regular everyday people, and it had made a difference.

It was then and there that Bruce found his resolve. There was no way he could save Dad, it was too late.

But... if Phantom could save Mom from halfway across the world and saved his fellow citizens from attacks. Then maybe, just maybe, Bruce could save someone else's dad, or mom, or brother, or sister, or friend.

Maybe Bruce could make a difference.

When Mom tucked him in that night, something he had recently said he was too old for, but didn't protest after the night, she kissed him on the cheek and softly spoke.

"Goodnight, sleep tight, don't let the bats bite."

Bats were Bruce's biggest fear. As his eyes drifted shut he recalled something he had heard Phantom say in an interview.

"Oh I'm constantly terrified when I'm fighting ghosts. Even though I am one that doesn't mean it's not scary, they were the things my parents would tell exaggerated spooky stories about as kids after all. However, I like to think that however scared I am of them, they're just as scared of me"

Maybe Bruce could use his fear of bats to help him help others too.

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"Flame-Jewel of the Ancients" Planet Stories #42 (1950) Cover by Allen Anderson

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Planet Stories Mar 1953

Allen Gustav Anderson

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Planet Stories (Spring 1947) Cover by Allen Gustav Anderson

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Vintage Pulp - Planet Stories (Winter1939) (Fiction House)

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Planet Stories vol. 4 #12 (May, 1951).

The making of a science fiction pulp magazine cover:

hero wearing a superhero-like costume and grimacing - CHECK

hero flying with rocket pack - CHECK

hero armed with a zap/ray/laser gun - CHECK

damsel in distress dressed inappropriately for environment - CHECK

"headlights" - CHECK

villainous alien ape guys - CHECK

ape guys have Mohawks - DOUBLE CHECK!