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| Additional Information | |
| Name | Speed Comics 1 | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 68 |
| Cover | 1 page |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Pencils | Bob Powell ? |
| Inks | Bob Powell ? |
| Comic Story | The Human Dynamo / Shock Gibson (26 pages) |
| Synopsis | Charles Gibson gains superpowers and becomes a hero. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Dr. Blitzer (intro); Baron Von Kampf (villain; intro) zombies (villain; intro); Jane Starr |
| Script | Maurice Rosenfield Bill Scott |
| Pencils | Norman Fallon ? |
| Inks | Norman Fallon ? |
| Comic Story | The Three Aces / Crash, Cork, and the Baron (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | The heroes are hired to break up a band of murderers and thieves in Arabia. |
| Genre | Adventure |
| Characters | Crash (intro); Cork (intro); the Baron (intro) |
| Script | Klaus Nordling |
| Pencils | Klaus Nordling |
| Inks | Klaus Nordling |
| Notes | Memorable line: "You fellows hang around in the background while I talk big...they're bound to expose themselves!" |
| Text Story | An Adventure With a Man-Eating Plant (2 pages) |
| Script | Edward Lambert |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Jungle |
| Characters | Balak |
| Pencils | Bob Powell (Illustration) ? |
| Inks | Bob Powell (Illustration) ? |
| Notes | illos by Powell? |
| Comic Story | The Man of a Thousand Faces! / Ted Parrish (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Actor Ted Parrish is tired of the soft roles he has been given, then has a real life adventure. |
| Genre | Adventure |
| Characters | Ted Parrish (intro; origin); A mad doctor (villain; intro); Joe |
| Script | Bob Powell (signed) |
| Pencils | Bob Powell (signed) |
| Inks | Bob Powell (signed) |
| Comic Story | The SQUALL Case / Spike Marlin (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Spike signs onto a whaler that's hunting illegal whales. |
| Script | ? [as Carl Larson] |
| Pencils | ? [as Carl Larson] |
| Inks | ? [as Carl Larson] |
| Genre | Adventure |
| Characters | Spike Marlin (intro) |
| First Line | In a quiet little seaport on the coast of Maine, a battered old whaler lies at anchor..... |
| Notes | Not George Tuska according to Jim Vadeboncouer. |
| Comic Story | Fire in Children's Haven / Smoke Carter (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Smoke suspects a connection when an orphanage supporter dies after a fire at the orphanage. |
| Genre | Adventure |
| Characters | Smoke Carter (intro; a fireman); Leslie White |
| Pencils | Munson Paddock |
| Inks | Munson Paddock |
| First Line | Fire breaks out in the 'Children's Haven,' orphange! Flames leap wildly! |
| Comic Story | The Coming of Landor / Landor, Maker of Monsters (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Anthony and Maria take shelter at Landor's castle and discover he has made a monster. |
| Genre | Horror-suspense |
| Characters | Landor (villain; intro); Anthony Torrence (intro); Maria (intro) |
| Pencils | Bob Powell |
| Inks | Bob Powell |
| First Line | On the peak of a storm-swept mountain, lashed by a howling gale, stands a forbidding old castle..... |
| Story | Texas Tyler (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Texas and Baldy help a rancher against Big Nick. |
| Genre | Western-frontier |
| Characters | Texas Tyler (intro); Baldy; Al; Pete; Pop Alden; Martha Alden; Big Nick |
| Pencils | Walter Frehm ? |
| Inks | Walter Frehm ? |
| First Line | Big Nick's law was the law of the gun, and Bar 'X' cowhands fell before his smoking six shooters..... until Texas rode into town....... |
| Cartoon | Air Speed (1 page) |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Script | Larry Shaw (signed) |
| Pencils | Larry Shaw (signed) |
| Inks | Larry Shaw (signed) |
| Letters | Larry Shaw (signed) |
| Notes | The air speed's of the Grumman single-seater biplane, the Douglas bomber monoplane, and the Curtiss single seat pursuit biplane. |
| Comic Story | The Super-Death Invention / Biff Bannon (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Biff and Truck have to rescue some Americans trapped in China. |
| Genre | Adventure; Humor |
| Characters | Biff Bannon (a Marine; intro); Truck Trenton; Joan Martin; Mr. Martin; Mr. Cubberly; Mr. White; Mr. Wolko |
| Script | Dick Briefer (signed) |
| Pencils | Dick Briefer (signed) |
| Inks | Dick Briefer (signed) |
| First Line | Surrounded by the deadly machine of war, a group of Americans grows impatient as they are stranded in a railroad station in China |
| Advertisement | Remington Typewriters (1 page) |
| Letters | typeset |
| First Line | Act now! On this bargain offer! |
| Notes | Back cover. |
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