The Planet Man! The Planet Man! The Planet Man! This is the fascinating story of Dantro, the Planet Man. Troubleshooter for the League of Planets Organization. The law enforcement body for peace and justice in the celestial world. Whose headquarters and center of operations are situated on the capital of all the planets, Planaria Rex. From Mercury to Pluto, wherever danger threatens the universe, you will find Dantro the Planet Man fighting for fair play. In a moment, The Planet Man. Dantro the Planet Man and Barrel the Robot have discovered the power plant for the whole graveyard planet deep under the surface in the hidden city of the Insect Man. Slats, Rura and the Marty rescue fleet, caught in the magnetic field, are slowly being drawn to the surface of the planet, where an army of insect men waits for their prey. The Insect Man is the first to be found in the planet. Rura and the Marty rescue fleet, caught in the magnetic field, are slowly being drawn to the surface of the planet, where an army of insect men waits for their ships to crash. Barrel is staying to blow up the power plant, while Dantro rushes to free the insect men's prisoners. Hello Barrel, can you still hear me? I'm almost at the barracks. Be careful Planet Man, there must be guards watching the prisoners. No sign of them yet Barrel, the insect men must have stripped the city of every available inhabitant to go to the surface and fight the Marty fleet. Are you sure the prisoners are in that building? Well I'll know in a minute. The doors are locked but I think my disruptor will take care of that. Ah that did it. Brought part of the building with it too and not a guard in sight. Maybe you have the wrong building. Maybe. Wait. No I can see the prisoners now. They're locked in cells like animals or criminals. I'll move on. Quiet all of you, I'm a friend. Is there any among you who can speak or understand me? I understand your tongue. You must have been in the ship that our expedition encountered. We left you one of our robots. What's your name? My name is Grig. I was the commander of the ship that landed near yours. How did you get here? Where are the insect men? There's no time to explain now. Are there space suits for those others and yourself? You'll need them when we get to the surface. Yes but they're locked away. Where? At the end of the building. If you have a heat projector or disruptor we can get them. But what good will it do? The insect men outnumber us a thousand to one and we have no weapons. Never mind that now. Quickly tell some of these others to take my heat projector and free the rest. You come with me to where the space suits are. Have them follow as soon as they can. Immediately. You there. Monty. Aye. Holy. Barrel can you hear me? I've found them. It's all right. And some members of your expedition are among the prisoner slaves. I have been listening on my communicator. It is good planet man. Now you must hurry and get them to the surface. In thirty four minutes I will destroy this power plant. It will probably take the planet with it. You must be aboard those ships and ready to blast off into space by then. We'll do it somehow Barrel. Isn't there some way you can follow us? Not a chance. This graveyard planet must never again trap the ships of another race. Hurry. Right. Grig this space suit room. Quickly. It's just a little way down this corridor. There. That door. Stand back. I can't waste time. I'm going to use full power. There. That's it. Here come the others. All of you in there. Quickly. Down space suits. You too Grig. And get the men outside. I'll meet you there. I'm going to see if I can find some weapons. There must be an armory in here. And don't waste a moment. We only have a short time to get to the surface. I don't know how much longer the Alpha can take this punishment with their drive on full pushing away from the planet and that magnetic field dragging her down. Something's liable to give any time. I know the other ships are under the same strain but they reported they've all definitely slowed down the pull of the field. We've dropped to four miles again. And at our rate of four we'll land in about seven minutes. Do you understand the plan? You mean about the formation we'll take up on the ground? Yes. The fleet will land in a circle with this ship at the center. That way all our rays and turrets can be trained. Okay I understand it. Let's hope it succeeds. You can say that again. Boy I'll bet we're heading for trouble with a capital T. You think there's a gravity lift to the surface in that shaft ahead? I know there is. It's the one the insect men use when they take us to work on a wreck ship in the surface. Oh I hope it's still in operation. I don't know. Are all the men armed? Yes. It's a lucky thing you found the weapons room. I've never seen such a mixture of weapons in my life. Why they're like these slaves from all over the galaxy. But they work and now at least we can fight if we have to. Barrel, Barrel, everything alright? Don't worry about me planet man. Get to the surface. I think you'll be needed there when the fleet lands. Alright Barrel. Look Grig there's the lift and it's still working. Come we're having a second to waste. 50,000 feet. We'll be down in a couple of minutes. Oh. Did you hear me Aurora? I said we'd be down in a couple of minutes. Hey what are you looking at? Come see for yourself on the screen. I'll take over the controls. Okay I've been wondering what that place down there looked like anyway. Wow look at that reception committee. There must be thousands of them. Can't make out much from here but it just doesn't look good. Wait I'll switch on the magnifier screen. Yeah. Hey insects thousands of them. They must be 10 feet high. Yes and look at what they've got with them. Holy smokes, tanks, mobile projectors, everything under the sun. But there's stuff down there I never dreamed existed. They're just waiting for us to land. We'll oblige them in a minute now. But we switch on our protective shielding. We're going to need it. We're using every ounce of power to resist the pull of the field. If we use some of it to put out our shield we'll drop and crash. You mean we can't use the shield until we're on the ground? Suppose they don't wait. Some of those rays can pick us off in the air. If they were going to do that they would have done it by now. No I think they're going to try to take the ships intact. And that they shall never do while one of my crews is still alive. Thousands of insect men waiting for the Mardi fleet. Can Slats and Rora strike the first blow and perhaps gain the advantage? We'll be back in a moment. So level off. When we left Slats, Rora and the Mardi fleet they were about to land on the insect planet amid its ravenous army of creatures. In the meantime Dantro has freed the slaves of the insect people and is leading them to the surface of the planet where they can engage the insect men in battle before their full fury is brought against the oncoming Mardi fleet. Dantro is talking to Grig, the leader of the slaves. How much further is it to the surface Grig? About half a mile. Where does this let us out? I mean on what part of the planet's surface? Near that graveyard of ships. We were taken there to help strip them of equipment after they were trapped. Graveyard of ships? That's where psychoanest survivors are. You mean the crews who escaped from the Mardi fleet? Yes. We knew they existed but we never saw them. They must have hidden when the insect men brought us there to work. But some of their members have been captured from time to time and so we know. I wonder. Listen Grig, I don't know what we're going to run into up there. I'm counting on the Mardi rescue fleet being about somewhere. But we'll have to fight our way to it. We'll need all the help we can get. The men here have extra arms. You mean to arm those hidden in the graveyard? Exactly. If we can find them. We'll know in a moment. Here's the top end of the lift. Tell your men to wait here in the tunnel. I'll go have a look around. And be ready to come when I call you. We'll be ready for anything. Stand by to land. Quick roar of the protective shield. Not a second too soon, slaps. Look. Jump in sunspots. If we hadn't gotten that shield on they'd have finished us off for good. They've got every piece of equipment trained on the Alpha. Will the shielding hold? Not for long with what they're pouring on. But your ships will be landing around us and they'll have to divert some of their stuff to them. I'll watch for them. Good. I'm going to see if I can pay those insect men or whatever they are back. Here's a little insecticide for you boys. Hey, you see that? There's one projector we won't have to worry about. Yeah, there goes a tank. Say I'm beginning to enjoy this. Careful, slaps. The rest of the fleet is dropping around us now. You better hold your fire. You might hit one of our own ships. Just one more, Laura. There's a disruptor over there that's just begging for a little heat. Yeah, that didn't look at her burn. Hey, there must be some oxygen out there. No time to check the analysis now. Hold your fire, slaps. Yeah, I'm holding it. In the middle of a circle here, we can't do any fighting back. I'm afraid we'll get our chance, slaps. Are you worried? With stuff you've got aboard that fleet, we ought to be able to whip them hands down. There's only one trouble, slaps. That field is slowly draining all the energy out of our converters. Soon there won't be enough left to fight and maintain our protective shields. And when that happens, we're going to be at their mercy. You serious, Laura? Dead serious. There is one thing we can do, slaps. Destroy the planet. We have atomic charges that can do that. What about planet man? He's out there somewhere. Yeah, that's why I've held off giving the order. To use the planet busters. I'll wait until the last minute, but then I've got to do it. Even planet man's life can't be put against this entire fleet, slaps. You can't destroy the planet. How about these ships? Won't they go too? No, we can protect ourselves against the effect. In the meantime. This is awful. Just awful. I can't even fight back. Dantzel! Dantzel, where are you? You see what's happening out there, Greg? The insect men have the Marty fleets around it. There's my ship, the Alpha, in the center. Sackrow's bringing his men. He's going to join forces with us. Good. As soon as he gets here, we'll move out. Do you think we have a chance against all those insect men? Besides being outnumbered, they've tanks and mobile ray batteries. We have only hand weapons. I'll tell you something now I didn't want you to know before. In 10 minutes, this planet will be destroyed. Barrel, the robot you left with us, is going to set off the power plant. If we aren't aboard those ships by then, we're going to be in trouble. By then, Greg, we'll go with it. No matter what the odds are, we've got to fight our way through. And if we don't, it'll be all over in 10 minutes. Time seems to be running only one way. Out. How can our friends overcome these great odds? The horror of the insect men. We'll be back in a moment. But first, here is a message the planet man wants you to hear. The planet man Tune in again for more transcribed thrills and adventures. Rocket millions of light years into space with Dantro, the planet man. The planet man
