CGC certified: Fine- (5.5). Cover: Everett Raymond Kinstler. Art: Wally Wood (2 stories, Joe Orlando inks), Sid Greene, Howard Larsen, and a seven-pager pencilled and inked by Al Williamson, Frank Frazetta, Wally Wood and Roy Krenkel. Off-white to white pages. A 5.5 sold for $326 in 9/18; a 6.5 sold for $1125 in 12/22.

In Wally Wood and Joe Orlando's "Kenton of the Star Patrol" story, Kenton goes undercover as a prisoner to crack the case of alien slavers who abduct jailbirds to toil in their uranium mines. Using sci-fi mumbo-jumbo and a space heater, Kenton "cracks the case" by turning his silicon-based foes into brittle glass. Next up is "Invasion from the Abyss," a so-so space saga redeemed by stellar artwork by four Fleagles: Williamson, Wood, Krenkel and Frazetta. Page for page, this mag packs more artistic firepower than almost any other non-EC pre-Code rag.

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