# Space Busters #2 Fall 1952

Cover by Allen Anderson (painting) Comic Story: Victory on Valda (7 pages) Synopsis: Captain Crockett's troops have a hard time convincing the freedom fighters of the planetoid Valda that they're not just as bad as the Belzarians, until nurse Wing saves Menso's daughter Rada. Featuring: Space Busters Credits: Pencils: Murphy Anderson | Inks: Murphy Anderson Character profile: Every Space Buster a One-Man Army (1 page) Featuring: Space Busters Content: Genre: Science Fiction Notes: Everything you want to know about their metallo-plastic helmets, thermo rifle, proton pistol, micro-grenades, and Space Buster Academy outside Luna City on the Moon. "Only three applicants out of every thousand are accepted for Space Buster training -- and only 40% of these recruits finish the full two years' training." Comic Story: Remember Makano (6 pages) Synopsis: After the traitor Senstral leads an attack of the Utani ape-men on the outpost on Makano, Captain Crockett leads a select platoon that decimates the Utani barracks and destroys the Belzarian death ray tank corps. Featuring: Space Busters Credits: Pencils: Murphy Anderson | Inks: Murphy Anderson Comic Story: Life in the Solar System (1 page) Synopsis: Mercury is too hot, Jupiter is too cold, but they hold out the possibility of life on Venus ("the coldest parts of Venus have the same temperature as our equator") and Mars ("the warmest climate of Mars resembles our sub-Arctic'). Credits: Pencils: Everett Raymond Kinstler | Inks:…

- Kind: Magazine
- Series: Space Busters #2 Fall
- Year: 1952
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/space-busters-no.-2-fall-1952)
- Licence or status: Public Domain Mark 1.0 (as the archive states it)
- Who can read it: Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says)

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