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Issue Details

Issue #400
Published May 1952
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Helen Meyer?
Notes Indicia title is "TOM CORBETT, SPACE CADET, No. 400". Code number is S.C.O.S. #400-525. Copyright 1952 by Videofeatures Company. Based on the 1950-52 TV series "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet".

Cover Details

Characters Tom Corbett
Genre science fiction
Pencils Alden McWilliams (painting) (signed)
Inks Alden McWilliams (painting) (signed)
Colors Alden McWilliams (painting) (signed)
Notes Indicia title is "TOM CORBETT, SPACE CADET, No. 400". Code number is S.C.O.S. #400-525. Copyright 1952 by Videofeatures Company. Based on the 1950-52 TV series "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet".

1 page [Tom Corbett, Space Cadet] foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Space Academy: The University of the Planets"

Characters Frankie Thomas (as Tom Corbett, photo); Al Markim (as Astro the Venusian, photo); Jan Merlin (as Roger Manning, photo)
Synopsis The Space Cadet pledge is listed.
Genre science fiction
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Figures of the three main characters cropped from a photograph and typeset text.

34 page Tom Corbett Space Cadet story "Space Pirates of Mercury"

Characters Tom Corbett; Roger Manning; Astro the Venusian; Alfie Higgins; Capt. Steve Strong; Dr. Dale; Commander Awkright
Synopsis The Space Cadets are on a training mission on the passenger spaceliner "Prince of Centurus" when it is attacked and boarded by space pirates. The pirates take the cargo and also take the passengers and crew to work in the mines of Mercury. Tom, Astro, and Roger secretly slip back into the crippled and abandoned spaceliner and send a distress call that is picked up by the Solar Guard patrol. Commander Arkwright then uses the rescued cadets to spring a trap on the pirates.
Genre science fiction
Script Paul S. Newman
Pencils Alden McWilliams (signed )
Inks Alden McWilliams (signed)
Notes Story continues on inside back cover in black and white and concludes on back cover in color. script credit from Robin Snyder, taken from Paul S. Newman's personal records (July 22, 2007).