Reading Room PLANET COMICS "Life on Other Worlds: Pluto"

As the spacecraft New Horizons approaches Pluto for our closest look ever at that frozen world...

...let's have a look at what we thought it might be like in 1946!

Mind you, Pluto was a planet when this chapter of the ongoing feature Life on Other Worlds appeared in Fiction House's Planet Comics #45 (1946).

In fact, it had only been discovered 16 years earlier and little was known about it beyond the fact that it was sitting out there at the edge of the Solar System!

So, it was a blank slate for sci fi writers to play with, as artist Murphy Anderson and the unknown writer did in this "cool" 2-pager!