Silver Streak Comics #3 - pt. 4

I have just a few pages left of this issue that I want to share, all from the final feature, Planet Patrol. It's the future of 2000. Remember when we had a colony on Mercury in 2000?

Long before space travel was real, if you didn't understand the mathematics behind figuring out where planets are at any given moment, you might believe that compasses would need to be reset so that the sun is north.  

It's not true that Mercury's axis is locked so one side always faces the Sun. I wonder if people believed that was true in 1940?

The real temperature on Mercury varies from -279 Fahrenheit at night to 801 Fahrenheit during the day. Those who remember Hideouts & Hoodlums Supplement III: Better Quality may recall that I suggested balancing real world physics with comic book physics, smoothing out these inhospitable elements so they are only mostly inhospitable. So, without Ken's heat-resisting outfit (itself a trophy item), he would take 1-4 points of damage per turn spent on the surface in the daytime. 

It's odd to call something that is so clearly a plane a "land cruiser."

The blast-ray gun fires a true ray, making it an area-effecting weapon.

It's really tacky to insult them for their speed while killing them.

Even in the future we have dungeons!

Most importantly, consider Aavon's pocket transmitter. This alone is the only accurate prediction about the year 2000 -- Aavon is using a cellphone!

(Scans courtesy of Comic Book Plus.)