Planet Comics launched in January, 1940 as a companion to the famous pulp magazine Planet Stories. Both features exciting tales of action-adventure in a "space opera" universe. This is the first issue of Planet Comics, reproduced from a surviving original copy of the comic book. .

If this is your first time traveling abroad, "The Smugglers of the Sulu Islands" may not be the guide for you. But if you've already roamed the planet a bit, this diverse collection of travel stories is a must read. It provides such useful tips as which conversations to avoid with the head of a Philippine smuggling gang or an undercover Hong Kong vice cop. It explains how to economize on Caribbean cruises by hitching a ride on a gravel barge. Some stories include history like Imperial mili...

The Genesis Plan: The atLan Chronicles IBy: Ken JacksonAfter a winter away from her Early Bronze Age community, Ishka the Healer returns with an infant son and a secret that no other living person knows. The boy was not given to her by the spirits of the forest, as she defiantly claims, but was fathered by a now-deceased cloud traveler, one of a mysterious people from another world whom her people fear but have never seen. Her plans to groom this special child for the leade...

This book is written to attempt to assist anyone who wishes to ease some of the burdens that today's younger people face, providing proven methods, along with a dash of humor and a gentle prodding of the reader toward God.

SpiritwalkerBy: Ken JacksonSpiritwalker is a fantastical tale of a man who discovers he has the ability to change into different animals and his discovery of a new home among the Native Americans. Blending truth and myth into one tale, Spiritwalker hopes to inspire a new love Native American culture.

The Fortress Walls Within is everyone's story. Each person's experiences are different with different backgrounds to guide our lives but ultimately all people struggle with the world around them building the walls they need to protect themselves. This is a story of one man's journey; One man's awakenings and One man's awareness that is possible for each of us. The story will appear simple at times, mysterious in other moments and will offer insights that only the reader will understand. Th...

In Shakespeare and Abraham, Ken Jackson illuminates William Shakespeare’s dramatic fascination with the story of Abraham’s near sacrifice of his son Isaac in Genesis 22. Themes of child killing fill Shakespeare’s early plays: Genesis 22 informed Clifford’s attack on young Rutland in 3 Henry 6, Hubert’s providentially thwarted murder of Arthur in King John, and Aaron the Moor’s surprising decision to spare his son amidst the filial slaughters of Titus Andronic...

This is a book of poetry with poems from my feelings and a musical heart. It is about memories from the past that cannot be forgotten and feelings that soothe the heart and can just be expressed by music.

I started off as a musician in high school playing guitar and bass. Coming out of high school, I know some of my own songs as well as other artists. I didnt start writing poems for a while though. Except in high school, for English class, I wrote a poem going Lets blow up the rotten school and build ourselves a swimming pool.. and that raised an issue of school threats similar to bomb threats of this day and age. Then there was this dirty poem I wrote in my early 20s. But I was still writi...

Half Shakespearean Sonetts, Half Pantoums with a sestina and a 7 verse poem

The African nation of Wakanda stood alone as an unconquerable land filled with incredible technological advancements for ten centuries. T'Challa, the latest in a lineage of warrior-kings, is the Black Panther, endowed with enhanced speed and strength, along with a suit made of the indestructible metal that secured his country's future: Vibranium. Now, outsiders have returned to plunder Wakanda's riches—including its store of the rare metal.Leading this brutal assault is Klaw, an assassin w...

The last camel is dead, and Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, her dashing husband, Emerson, and precocious son, Ramses, are in dire straits on the sun-scorched desert sands. Months before, back in cool, green England, Viscount Blacktower had approached them to find his son and his son's new bride, who have been missing in war-torn Sudan for over a decade. An enigmatic message scrawled on papyrus and a cryptic map had been delivered to Blacktower, awakening his hope that the couple was still ali...