Planet Comics (1940) #41

Fiction House 1940–1953 series Cover date Mar 1946

Fair market value

Grade	CGC slab	Raw
9.8 NM/M	$480 $408–$552	$210 $179–$242
9.6 NM+	$374 $318–$431	$168 $143–$193
9.4 NM	$292 $248–$336	$134 $114–$155
9.2 NM-	$228 $194–$262	$108 $91.39–$124
9.0 VF/NM	$178 $151–$204	$86.02 $73.12–$98.92
8.5 VF+	$139 $118–$159	$68.81 $58.49–$79.13
8.0 VF	$108 $91.89–$124	$55.05 $46.79–$63.31
7.0 FN/VF	$84.31 $71.66–$96.96	$44.04 $37.43–$50.65
6.0 FN	$65.77 $55.90–$75.64	$35.23 $29.95–$40.51
5.0 VG/FN	$51.30 $43.61–$58.99	$28.19 $23.96–$32.42
4.0 VG	$40.01 $34.01–$46.01	$22.55 $19.17–$25.93
2.0 GD	$31.21 $26.53–$35.89	$18.04 $15.33–$20.75
Raw, ungraded	—	$65.00 $55.25–$74.75

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About this issue

Planet Comics #41 (1940) is issue #41 of Fiction House's Planet Comics (1940–1953), with a cover date of March 1946. Written by Dick Charles, Len Dodson, Hugh Fitzhugh and others and drawn by Murphy Anderson, Joe Doolin, August Froehlich and others. It has the first appearance of Auro, Claudia and Dorna.

Creators

Writers: Dick Charles, Len Dodson, Hugh Fitzhugh, Ross Gallun, Thorncliffe Herrick, Douglas McKee
Pencillers: Murphy Anderson, Joe Doolin, August Froehlich, Fran Hopper, Lily Renée
Inkers: Murphy Anderson, Joe Doolin, August Froehlich, Fran Hopper, Lily Renée
Cover artist: Joe Doolin

Characters

First appearance Auro
First appearance Claudia (Fiction House / AC)
First appearance Dorna (Fiction House / AC)

Chet Edson (the second Auro, Lord of Jupiter)

The stories

Hunt and Lyssa are trying to escape some Voltamen and discover Dr. Schultz, so they enlist his aid in destroying a Volta power station.

The planet Itec has returned to its orbit after being lost for aeons, and is now capturing spaceships. Gale is mistaken for a legendary queen and manages to hypnotize Lor.

Star takes a spaceship of male colonists to a forgotten world populated only by women. People age very slowly there and the colonists decide to stay on with the women, while Star and Blackbeard continue to roam the universe.

Mysta goes undercover to find a villain who has discovered a way to control the movement of people's hands against their will.

Credits, characters and story details from the Grand Comics Database, CC BY-SA 4.0.