Appearing in the 1st Story[]
Title
Writer
- Pat Mills (writing as R. E. Wright)
Artist
Colours
- None
Lettering
Featured characters
Supporting characters
- Lew Kerr, a business tycoon
- Stan Hackmann, a well-known science fiction writer
- Captain Roker
Villains
- Faceless acid-spitting monsters
Other characters
- Archie the co-pilot
Location
- An 'ab-world' accessed via the Bermuda Triangle
Items
- Jake Flint's axe
- A large boulder
Vehicles
- TriStar jet
Synopsis for the 1st Story[]
An aeroplane flying across the Atlantic to Miami crash-lands on an unearthly hell-world. Fortunately, the crew meet a friendly stranger with archaic speech patterns and a big axe.
Appearing in the 2nd Story[]
Title
Writer
- Chris Lowder (writing as Jack Adrian)
Artist
Colours
- None
Lettering
Featured characters
Supporting characters
Villains
Other characters
- Harl Vinda, controller of a temporal sub-station
- Quexalcholmec, a pure-strain Aztec
- Marcus Geladius, a centurion attached to the 9th legion
Locations
- London, 1978
- The Cretaceous era
Items
- A newspaper
- A dinosaur
Vehicles
- Tube train
Synopsis for the 2nd Story[]
An ordinary man is stunned, literally, by time-travelling strangers and awakes to find himself somewhere extraordinary.
Appearing in the 3rd Story[]
Title
Writers
- John Wagner and Alan Grant (writing as T. B. Grover)
Artist
Colours
- See above
Lettering
Featured characters
Supporting characters
- None
Villains
- Max Quirxx's goons
Other characters
- Police officers
- Random members of the public
Location
- Caytor, administration planet of the Dorian nebula, 2180 AD
Items
- Chameleon cloaks
Vehicles
- Police transport
Synopsis for the 3rd Story[]
Two bounty hunters are looking for a murderer called Max Quirxx.
Appearing in the 4th Story[]
Title
- 'Day of the Robot' (a Ro-Busters story)
Writer
Artist
Colours
- See above
Lettering
Featured characters
Supporting characters
Villains
Other characters
- 'Flash' Harry Lowder, seller of robots
- Metal Angel, a medical droid
- A trapped human and his daughter
Locations
- A robo-mart
- The North Sea, 2078 AD
Items
- Howard Quartz's umbrella
Vehicles
- The Preying Mantis
Synopsis for the 4th Story[]
Howard Quartz recruits some second-hand robots for his latest money-making scheme.
Notes[]
Published on May 13th, 1978, and sold for 12 pence.
Trivia[]
- Also contains a two-page spread introducing the comic's fictional editor, Starlord.
- Given the fact that the author is Pat Mills, the character of 'Stan Hackmann' in Planet of the Damned being a parody of Stan Lee is not inconceivable.
Recommended reading[]
Read the following twenty-one issues for more thrilling cosmic action!
Links and references[]
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