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Title: Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet

Author: Harold Leland Goodwin

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A Golden Griffon Space Adventure

RIP FOSTER IN RIDE THE GRAY PLANET

by

BLAKE SAVAGE

Golden Press New York
Golden Griffon TM of Western Publishing Company, Inc.
Copyright 1952 by Western Publishing Company, Inc.
All rights reserved. Printed in the U.S.A.
Published by Golden Press, New York, N.Y.
First Golden Griffon Printing, 1969

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER ONE: Spacebound

CHAPTER TWO: Rake That Radiation!

CHAPTER THREE: Capture and Drive!

CHAPTER FOUR: Find the Needle!

CHAPTER FIVE: The Gray World

CHAPTER SIX: Rip's Planet

CHAPTER SEVEN: Earthbound!

CHAPTER EIGHT: Duck--or Die!

CHAPTER NINE: Repel Invaders!

CHAPTER TEN: Get the Scorpion!

CHAPTER ELEVEN: Hard Words

CHAPTER TWELVE: Mercury Transit

CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Peril!

CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Between Two Fires

CHAPTER FIFTEEN: The Rocketeers

CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Ride the Planet!

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Visitors!

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Courtesy--With Claws

CHAPTER NINETEEN: Spacefall

CHAPTER TWENTY: On the Platform

CHAPTER ONE

Spacebound

A thousand miles above Earth's surface the great space platform sped
from daylight into darkness. Once every two hours it circled the earth
completely, spinning along through space like a mighty wheel of steel and
plastic.

Through a telescope on Earth the platform looked to be a lifeless, lonely
disk, but within it, hundreds of spacemen and Planeteers went about their
work.

In a ready room at the outer edge of the platform, a Planeteer officer
faced a dozen slim, black-clad young men who wore the single golden
orbits of lieutenants. This