Number 1862: Otherworldly Tales: Queen of Outer Space

This is the second in our science fiction theme week, Otherworldly Tales. In this six-page story set in a vessel somewhere between Mars and Earth, a captured Earth crew is given a mind-reading treatment by a queen and her crew. Toward the end of the Fiction House comics line the forties style was passé, so in their single science-fiction magazine, Planet Comics, they went to a more traditional science fiction anthology format.

[SPOILER] I’m not sure what the snap ending of this story has to do with the rest of it, but in similar circumstances I would advise Captain Lance Rawley to lay down a big bet on the New York Giants in the 1954 World Series. That year the Cleveland Indians were heavily favored, yet the Giants took the series in four games. After all, Captain Rawley is now stuck in the past, and his job doesn’t exist. [END SPOILER]

Art is signed “Albert.” Published in Planet Comics #73 (last issue, 1953).

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