Futura - Chapitre 6

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Chapter 6 May 1947 Planet Comics #48

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Les aventures de Futura dans "Planet Comics" - 1947

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Some newsstand silliness graces the cover of Planet Comics #48 (May 1947). For a comic book that featured scantily-clad men and women in every story the cover features a giant sexless robot with the crotch area obscured by a cloud. The theory being that parents may not pay attention to the interior art if the exterior image is deemed harmless enough at first glance.

This kind of bait-and-switch was a specialty of comic books of the era as they tried to gain a market share wracked by the decline of the pulps. Decades before comic books were attacked by the public and politicians as being unwholesome the pulp magazines suffered a similar trial. Declared obscene, many pulp titles were forced to be hidden behind the newsstand counters. Public pressure was mounting to shut down the publishers of the racy and violent magazines, even though it was primarily the adult audience of working joes and soldiers that purchased the books and not children.

Eventually the campaign for decency, poor products and a saturated and changing market forced most of the pulp magazines to fold or evolve into mainstream magazines. In some ways the pulps were sabotaged from within. Like in the modern era of comic books, publishers desperate for a dwindling market share resorted to gimmicks to increase or stabilize plummeting sales. For the pulps, titillation and cheesecake, if not outright pornography, were utilized to interest readers and boost.

Planet Comics #48 (May 1947)

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Planet Comics #48 (May 1947)

Something similar could be observed in the

comic books of the 1990s. Both eras enjoyed a

brief surge in sales followed by a devastating

collapse, if for different reasons.

Sabotage is the theme for Chapter 6 of the

Futura saga. But where the pulp and comic

book markets sabotaged themselves, Futura

projects her struggle outwards and engages in

attacks on the infrastructure of the Brain-Men!

This is also the second chapter where disguise

and transformation plays a major role in the

fight against the tyrants. Hiding a powerful

bomb in a log, Futura gambles that she can

enter the stronghold of the tyrants unobserved,

destroying their power station and laboratories

in one massive strike. While evenst do not go

all according to plan Futura does eventually

succeed after a fashion. Adopting another

identity also saves the day as Futura enters the

fortress of the Brain Men, setting the scene for

adventures to come.

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Planet Comics

was a science fiction comic-book title

produced by Fiction House and issued

from Jan. 1940 (issue 1) to Winter 1953

(issue 73). Like many of Fiction House's

early comics titles, Planet Comics was a

spinoff of a pulp magazine, in this case

Planet Stories, which featured space

operatic tales of muscular, heroic space

adventurers who were quick with their 'ray

pistols' and always running into gorgeous

females who needed rescue from bug-

eyed space aliens or fiendish interstellar

bad guys.

Planet Comics #1 (January 1940)

Planet Comics was considered by noted fan Raymond Miller to be "perhaps the best of the

Fiction House group," as well as "most collected and most valued." In Miller's opinion, it

"wasn't really featuring good art or stories... in the first dozen or so issues," not gaining most

of "its better known characters" until "about the 10th issue." "Only 3 of its long running strips

started with the first issue... Flint Baker, Auro - Lord of Jupiter, and the Red Comet."