During its short 9 issue run Buccaneers had the same five characters each issue in stories that were almost identical to each other. The line-up was Captain Daring: The lead character, who pretended to be a pirate but was sailing the Spanish Main out to bring them all down, Captain Daring was pretty obviously modeled on Errol Flynn...

All vintage s-f reprints, from cover to cover!! The absolute cream of the crop among classic science fiction comics from the Golden Age of the 1940's and '50's. Start off with a Reed Crandall drawn episode of his "Interplanetary Police" series, done with Ray Willner for the Buster Brown shoestore giveaway comics, titled "Space Magnet". It features the gorgeous villaiess, the Space Siren. Then, there's George Evans doing an installment of "The Lost World", from Fiction House's Planet Comics. Then, a futuristic romance, set in outer space, with Bernie Krigstein's "Jealousy On Kano" More Planet Comics adventure ( this one from #16 ) with "Mars, God Of War", drawn by Joe Doolin; and Gale Allen and the Girl Squadron, illustrated by H. C. Kiefer. Plus, Mysta Of The Moon ( from Planet #53 ) drawn by Matt Baker, and "Cerebex" ( from Planet #73 ) by Bill Benulus. Plus, Youthful Magazine's Captain Sciece in "The Martian Slavers", by Joe Orlando and Wally Wood. Old fashioned space opera at it's best, with loads of babes and B. E. M.s Color painted cover, interiors are black and white with graytones.

Reed Crandall's mastery of fine line detail and expertly nuanced pen-and-ink texture is a perfect fit for EC Comics. This collection of 21 Crandall favorites, delineated in his classically illustrative style, includes "The Silent Towns," a Ray Bradbury story about the last man and woman on Mars; "Carrion Death," a stark horror story about a man struggling through the desert with a corpse handcuffed to his wrist as the vultures circle closer; "Sweetie-Pie," the grisly story of a ghoul who sets up a roadside hazard to procure, um, fresh meat; "The Kidnapper," about a man who decides to kidnap a baby to replace the baby that had been stolen from him and his wife; "Space Suitors," a science fiction love triangle that leads to jealously, betrayal, and murder, and "The High Cost of Dying," the title story, in which a man must make an awful choice between burying his wife and feeding his children.