Dates
- Cover date
- April 1959
- On sale
- February 8, 1959
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Chapter One: Venus Bound! · 8 pages
Cosmo and Orbi are marooned on the moon with the Moonlings (all named Oog), when Professor Thimk, Astra, and the dog JoJo arrive from Mars to rescue them. But first they have to go to Venus. Two Moonlings and the Gillywump from the Dark Side of the Moon stow away for the trip to Venus.
- Trouble for Orbi! (Chapter 2) · 6 pages
The crew arrives on Venus, and discovers that small volcanoes cause the gaseous cloud around the planet. Cosmo, Orbi, and Astra unknowingly sit on a sleeping Venusian monster, who wakes up and kidnaps Orbi.
- Our Mysterious Neighbor · 1 pages
- Lovely Day! · 1 pages
When Jimmy is almost hit by a jet-a-cycle, he can't remember the license plate number but he knows how to calculate it.
- To the Rescue! (Chapter 3) · 3 pages
When Cosmo tells Professor Thimk about Orbi's kidnapping, the group goes looking for him and Astra falls into a crevice.
- Food for Thought! · Squarehead · 1 pages
Hungry Squarehead makes square doughnuts.
- Hunters of the Wild · 1 pages
- A Slap-Happy Ending! (Chapter 4) · 5 pages
A Venusian Monster helps Astra out of the crevice, and Orbi tells the crew that a short circuit in his helmet has caused the monsters to become afraid of him. The story ends with the monsters taking the crew to meet the queen.
Reprinted in
World of Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (2010), The Complete Cosmo the Merry Martian (2018), Laugh Comics Digest / Laugh Comics Digest Magazine / Laugh Digest Magazine (1974), Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (2011), The Best of Archie Comics (2011), Archie 1000 Page Comics Blow-Out (2015), Best of Archie Comics (2016)