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Speed Comics
Date | Number: 10 | Lang: English (en)
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   By Peter B. Gillis
More wild stuff from Munson Paddock on the Mars Mason strip.
   By JVJ
I find Paddock's stuff to be head and shoulders above the other art in these early Speed Comics. He can be SO expressive and dynamic, as if he were mailing in his stories from the future. (|:{>
   By crashryan
What I like about the Mars Mason story (other than the fact that the hero is a mailman) is the same thing that made Kirby's Cosmic Carson stories stand out: highly individualistic designs for things like spacesuits and spacecraft, not the same old Flash Gordon and pulp-magazine designs most other artists were using.
   By JVJ
Hard to believe that he's also probably the OLDEST artist in the issue, by far, born in 1886! He was doing cartoons in Judge Magazine in 1910. (|:{>
  
Additional Information
 
PublicationJuly 1940 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly
 
ContentGenre: Superhero
 
AdvertisementPrice Goes Up After This Sale (1 page)
CreditsScript:? (ad copy) | Letters: typeset
NotesInside front cover. Ad for the "Little Man" printing press from the Peck Brothers company from Mt. Carmel, Connecticut.
 
SynopsisComrade Ratski captures several noted scientists and forces them to create devices to cause mayhem in an effort to conquer America.
ContentGenre: Superhero | Characters: Comrade Ratski (Villain); Ratski's thug; Shock Gibson; Doctor Bronson; Professor Capcheck; RInceton College scientists; paperboy; earthquake victims; looters; State Police; Monster Beetle; bus passengers; Monster Spider; Monster Cockroach; mountain lion
 
Publisher advertisementJoin the Shock Gibson Volunteers (1 page)
CreditsScript:? (promo copy) | Letters: typeset
NotesPromotional ad to join the Shock Gibson Volunteers fan club.
 
SynopsisThe Flibbet sisters hire the Three Aces to transport them to northern Paraguay so they can study the Guantos Indians. When they arrive it is discovered that Ni Lats had hypnotized the locals and, eventually, Gail Flibbet, to be under his command. While dodging to advances of the Flibbet's, The Three Aces along with the sisters defeat Ni Lats and free those under his control.
ContentGenre: Adventure; Humor | Characters: The Flibbet sisters [Gail; other two unnamed] (Intro); Ni Lats (Villain, Intro, Death); The Three Aces [Cork; Crash; The Baron]; Guatos Indians of Paraguay
 
SynopsisTed arranges a fake kidnapping of his producer Sam to scare him into giving him more character roles. Ted soon finds himself having to rescue Sam as those he hired decided to make it a real kidnapping job. After his rescue, Sam puts Ted into a movie role he wanted that resulted in him winning the Academy Award for the role.
ContentGenre: Adventure | Characters: Sam (Ted's producer); Ted Parrish; waterfront dive thugs
 
Text StoryBoxcar Battle (2 pages)
SynopsisRalph takes a boxcar to New York to find a job when he ends up in a fight with Duke, Lefty, and One-Eye who attempt to rob him of his money.
CreditsScript: Rex Rollins | Pencils:? (two illustrations) | Inks:? (two illustrations) | Colors:? (two illustrations) | Letters: typeset
ContentGenre: Adventure | Characters: Ralph Morgan; Duke; Lefty; One-Eye
 
SynopsisBiff is placed in charge of protecting a special shipment to Station X of the secret ray-gun. Biff has to fight off two spies onboard the train to protect the weapon.
ContentGenre: Adventure; Military | Characters: Biff Bannon; Marine Corps officers; two spies
NotesThe feature logo for this story reads "Biff Bannon of the U.S. Marines"
 
SynopsisAfter Cannon saved the ship Majestic from a U-Boat, he soon finds himself entangled in a spy ring still trying to sink the ship while in port.
CreditsScript:? [as Ted C. Mariner] (signed)
ContentGenre: Adventure | Characters: Lieutenant Jim Cannon; Ship's Captain; Walter Engels; Female G-1 Secret Agent; a cabbie
 
SynopsisLandor captures and brainwashes famed criminologist John Powers to help frame Torrence. Marcia and Kung-Fu-Tse work to rescue Powers and clear Jack's name.
CreditsScript:? [as Gregory Torey] (credited)
ContentGenre: Adventure | Characters: John Powers (Intro); Landor; Jack Torrence; Marcia (Jack's fiancee); Kung-Fu-Tse; desk sergeant
 
Comic StoryDemon Sleuths (2 pages)
SynopsisNick and Dick track down bank robbers to try to win the $250 reward for their capture. After Nick is captured by the robbers, Dick tracks down Riley the cop to rescue him. Following a trail of jelly beans left by Nick, Dick, Riley, and other policemen track down the criminal's hiding place and rescue Nick.
ContentGenre: Children | Characters: Nick and Dick (Intro); Riley the cop; two robbers; cops
NotesThis is Ed Hamilton, the American Comics Group letterer, not the DC writer.
 
SynopsisOn his way to set up mail service between the Earth and Uranus, Mars found himself involved in rescuing Earth-Men from an outpost on Uranus from local creatures. Mars helps those men in their plans to redirect solar energy to warm up the planet for colonization only to find himself having to fight off creatures from Mercury who want to have the plan to themselves.
ContentGenre: Science Fiction | Characters: Mars Mason; original inhabitants of Uranus; Earth-Men from the out-post; Mercurians
NotesThe feature logo for this story reads "Mars Mason of the Interplanetary Mail Service"
 
SynopsisSpike has to save noted diver and treasure hunter, Dan O'Brien, from kidnappers, and octopus, and treasure thieves.
CreditsScript:? [as Carl Larson] (credited)
ContentGenre: Adventure | Characters: Spike Marlin; bar patrons; Dan O'Brien; kidnappers; diving ship's Captain and crew
Notescredited to Carl Larson, but not George Tuska
 
AdvertisementRush Coupon for Mammoth Catalog
CreditsScript:? (ad copy) | Pencils:? (vignettes) | Inks:? (vignettes) | Letters: typeset
NotesInside back cover. Ad for Johnson Smith & Co. of Detroit, Michigan's catalog of novelty items.
 
AdvertisementFifty Famous Fingers (1 page)
CreditsScript:? (ad copy) | Letters: typeset
ContentCharacters: Dionne Quintuplets [Cecile; Annette; Marie; Tyonne; Emelie]
NotesBack cover. Ad for Remington Noiseless Typewriters from the Remington Rand Inc. of Buffalo, New York, using the Dionne Quintuplets from Quebec, Canada.
 
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