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| Grade | Amount | Evidence | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8.0 | $241.45 | PANEL_PROFITS · grade_8_0_valueguide | 1955-10-01 |
| 9.2 | $314.00 | PANEL_PROFITS · grade_9_2_valueguide | 1955-10-01 |
| RAW | $34.93 | PANEL_PROFITS · ungraded_valueguide | 1955-10-01 |
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Graded population
CGC records 13 graded copies for Mystery in Space #28 (1955). Population is the number recorded by this grading source, not the total print run or all surviving copies.
The Radio Planet
A spaceship crashes and two aliens are found aboard suffering from amnesia. The two aliens, nicknamed Alpha and Beta, are investigated by scientists to try and figure out which planet they're from. During the tests, the scientists occasionally burst into uncontrollable laughter, which is due to the aliens exhaling nitrous oxide.
Beta, who is actually a criminal, regains his memories and tries to sneak away, but Alpha regains his memories too after seeing an image of the asteroid belt. It turns out that the aliens had been in suspended animation for thousands of years and their planet was destroyed. Luckily, the aliens then identify signals received from space as coded messages in their language, meaning their people survived and now live in the Vega system.
| StoryTitle2 = Journey to the Pygmy World | Synopsis2 = Scientist Orville Quinn has gone through great effort to construct an orrery with real-looking miniature planets, but still struggles with getting his atom-compressor to work. Orville's son Jimmy accidentally fiddles with the atom-compressor and ends up shrunk down and stranded on the miniature version of Jupiter.
The professor's assistant Mark Benton and has himself shrunk down to go find him. After rescuing Jimmy, he uses gaseous dye to turn Jupiter's red spot blue so Orville knows where to fire the enlarging ray.
| StoryTitle3 = Space Flight to Danger | Synopsis3 = Space Cabbie needs a new atomic battery for his cab but the shopkeeper is strangely nervous and tries to stop him from buying it. Later, Space Cabbie is almost knocked out of the sky by a speeder and turns down the services of a repairman who he didn’t contact or pay for. And again, while taking the throughway to Jupiter a space-cop pulls him over and tries to convince him he's won some kind of prize for being the throughway's millionth vehicle.
While Space Cabbie gets some rest and camps out on a nearby asteroid, someone tries to steal his cab but escapes. Once he finally arrives on Saturn, a fake police officer ambushes him and steals only the case his battery came in. After getting the attention of some real cops, it turns out that the shopkeeper was actually the head of a gang and the battery case contained the map to where they stashed their loot.
| StoryTitle4 = The Last Television Broadcast on Earth | Synopsis4 = As a comet is hurtling towards Earth, a tv station fearing the planets destruction hosts one last broadcast memorialising all the greatest moments in history. The comet upon impact proves to be harmless, but its particulates make it impossible to broadcast television, meaning that it still was the last television broadcast in history.
The television companies come up with a workaround where a satellite projects specific wavelengths of light onto the moon, allowing people to use special glasses to watch different channels projected onto it at night.
| Appearing1 = **Featured Characters:** * Professor Sanders **Supporting Characters:** * Ek-Dar/Alpha
**Antagonists:** * Trag/Beta **Other Characters:** * **Locations:** * 1955 ** Earth ** Vega
**Items:** * Solar System Map **Vehicles:**
| Appearing3 = **Featured Characters:** * Space Cabby) **Supporting Characters:** * **Antagonists:** * A phony vehicle inspector **Other Characters:** * Interplanetary Police **Locations:** * 22nd Century ** Saturn) **Items:** * **Vehicles:** * Space Cab
| Appearing4 = **Characters:** * TV showman * Plutonians * Solar Pirates * A Martian) * Venusians * Panel, an Uranian * A Jovian * A Neptunian * Zakko **Locations:** * 21st Century ** Earth ** Mars (planet)) ** Venus (planet)) ** Saturn (planet)) ** Jupiter (planet)) * 20th Century ** Earth's Moon
**Items:** * **Vehicles:**
| Notes = * "The Radio Planet": ** the story implies that the asteroid belt between Mars and Saturn was once a planet named Kenlor. ** the Kenlorian lawman is called Ek-Dal and Ek-Dar in the same story. * "The Last Television Broadcast on Earth" is reprinted in Mysteries in Space: The Best of DC Science Fiction Comics (The book itself erroneously indicates this adventure being published in #22). * "The Last Television Broadcast on Earth" implies that: ** The first manned moonlanding happened in 1983. Apollo 11|In Real World, was 1969; ** First manned trip to Mars in 2001, and the Martian canals are real; ** All the planets in the Solar System are inhabited by different species; ** Plutonians will declare war to Earth in 2026; ** In 2029, the rings of Saturn will abandon the planet; ** Solar Olympic Games in 2036. | Trivia = | Recommended = | Links =
Creative credits
Writers: Bill Finger, Otto Binder, Otto Binder, Bill Finger
Interior art: Sid Greene, Carmine Infantino, Gil Kane, Sid Greene
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