Mystery in Space, #29
Published: December 1955-January 1956
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Space-Enemy Number One! (1)
"Amazing! The mechanical manhunter identifies the Earthman in the line-up as space-enemy number one!"
Credits
- Pencils: Gil Kane
- Inks: Joe Giella
- Letters: Ira Schnapp
Draw Me!
"Try for a free 2-year art scholarship worth $335.00"
Story Notes
Inside front cover.
Space-Enemy Number One!
"As soon as the effects of his shockpitol wears off, we must notify the solar police!"
Storyline
The Solar Police are searching for Dinagren, a master criminal who can appear to be from several different planets.
Credits
- Script: John Broome
- Pencils: Carmine Infantino
- Inks: Carmine Infantino
- Letters: Gaspar Saladino
Story Notes
Shockpistol is misspelled in the first world balloon.
"Chuckle!!-We've got Fosdick locked in the time capsule!!"
"A kangaroo mother and son can go merrily jumping as one..."
"Although a year on Mars is equal to 687 Earth-days..."
Mystery of the Mind-Reading Jewels!
"One of these miners is smuggling out the fabulously valuable telegems!"
Credits
- Script: John Broome
- Pencils: Sid Greene
- Inks: Joe Giella
- Letters: Ira Schnapp
"Yoo hoo it's me my name is Pinky Lee"
Characters
- Pinky Lee
Sir William Herschel (1)
Story Notes
Information for this sequence from Arthur Lortie.
The Robot Without a World!
"Eeyah, I got a shock when I touched you!"
Credits
- Script: Otto Binder
- Pencils: Gil Kane
- Inks: Bernard Sachs
Discovery of the Planet Vulcan! (1)
Featuring Wonders of Space
"A little over one hundred years ago, a French astronomer named Urbain Leverrier wrote to J. G. Galle at the..."
Story Notes
This feature contains two text articles: 1. Discovery of the Planet Vulcan! 2. The Law of Space!
Featuring Our Strange Universe
"A great flock of globular clusters..."
The Science-Fiction Story That Saved the Earth!
"I can't believe it! The future menace I described in my story is happening on Earth--today!"
Credits
- Script: Bill Finger
- Pencils: Carmine Infantino
- Inks: Carmine Infantino
Story Notes
The two main characters, Emmett Hamilton and Ray Bradford, are thinly disguised tributes to science-fiction writers (and Julius Schwartz clients) Edmond Hamilton and Ray Bradbury.
"Kids! Be the first to send for the new plastic Kings' Knights only $1.00 postpaid"
How a Nation Is Born - Your United Nations at Work
"80,000,000 people live on the islands that make up Indonesia."
Credits
- Script: Jack Schiff
- Pencils: Win Mortimer
- Inks: Win Mortimer
Story Notes
The inside back cover PSA is produced in sequential comics-art style.
"Get your own "man-size" Daisy Air Rifle and get in with the crowd!"
Story Notes
Back cover.