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America's Greatest Comics
Date | Number: 8 | Lang: English (en)
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   By positronic1
Now *there's* something I never expected to see! Beginning on page 24, there is a 15-page Captain Midnight epic where he teams up with Spy Smasher! And of course Fawcett had done crossover stories before, but somehow you never expect to see that happen with licensed characters (Captain Midnight was owned by the Wander Corporation, makers of Ovaltine, which sponsored the radio show from which Fawcett drew its comic adaptation -- very loosely, I might add). Spy Smasher had already been a big hit for Fawcett before they got the license to Captain Midnight, so it's not too surprising that when they did, they decided to cast Midnight in a superhero mold largely BASED on the popular Spy Smasher. Putting the two of them *together* in the same story kind of emphasized their suspiciously-similar looks, and you'd have thought that Fawcett would want to avoid pointing that out to kids directly. Still, great story and a really pleasant surprise to discover it here.
  
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PublicationSummer 1943 | Price: 0.15 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Every Three Months
 
ContentGenre: Superhero | Characters: Captain Marvel; Spy Smasher [Alan Armstrong]; Captain Marvel Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Golden Arrow; Captain Midnight; Billy Batson
 
ContentsTable of Contents (1 page)
NotesContents page.
 
Comic StoryCaptain Marvel Plays Baseball On Mars (19 pages)
CreditsPencils: Beck shop | Inks: Beck shop
ContentGenre: Superhero | Characters: Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Martians (introduction); Dr. Pzzphz (introduction); General Hddy (introduction); Stostas (introduction)
NotesAlter Ego (TwoMorrows, 1999 series) #168 (March 2021) states that Rod Reed edited this story.
 
SynopsisSilent Sims sees a mountain climber hanging off a ledge. Rather than help him up, Sims lights the man's cigar.
ContentGenre: Humor
NotesNo dialogue.
 
Comic StoryThe Race Around the World (15 pages)
ContentGenre: Superhero | Characters: Yellow Hawk (villain, introduction)
 
Comic StoryMeets Judge Lynch (13 pages)
SynopsisBulletman and Bulletgirl must stop the insane Judge Lynch, who assumes the right of life or death over his pitiful victims.
ContentGenre: Superhero | Characters: Bulletman [Jim Barr]; Bulletgirl [Susan Kent]; Voss; Judge Lynch (villain, introduction, death)
NotesPencil credit revised from Pete Riss ? to ? by Craig Delich 2012-3-10 per Marc Swayze in Alter Ego #107 article.
 
Text StoryFlowers of Death (2 pages)
CreditsScript: Joseph J. Millard | Letters: typeset
 
Comic StoryThe Filming of Spy Smasher's Downfall (16 pages)
ContentGenre: Spy; Superhero | Characters: Josef Goebbels (villain); Hans (villain, a Spy Smasher double); Nazis (villain)
NotesAnother plug for Spy Smasher movie.
 
Comic StoryThe Feud That Fizzled (13 pages)
ContentGenre: Western-frontier | Characters: Bart Gonifer (villain, introduction)
NotesPossible Berg art per Nick Caputo.
 
Comic StoryMeets Mr. Morpheus (12 pages)
ContentGenre: Superhero | Characters: Captain Marvel Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Kurt; Mr. Morpheus (villain, introduction)
 
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