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| I really like the idea of Nightshade. Having a substantial shadow is kind of neat! |
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| Similar to Doctor MidNight of DC & JSA. Able to see in total darkness and uses a black-out bomb to render foes stumbling fools. |
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| Origin story of the Blue Lady was interesting - not terribly well drawn but decent enough plot. Strange that she hasn't been revived since - lots of opportunities for character development as she is a novelist and able to travel anywhere for research.
The naff costume probably didn't help - but that could be changed. |
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| Did the writers of the Batman 66 TV show, crib from Amazing Man?
''The Diabolical Vulture waits only for his secret tunnels to join up with the New York subways ...then he will launch his horrible attack! Will the Amazing Man stop him in time?' |
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| Additional Information |
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| Publication | October 1941 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Bi-monthly |
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| Featuring | Aman the Amazing-Man |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Aman the Amazing Man [John Aman]; Tommy the Wonder Boy |
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| Featuring | Aman the Amazing-Man |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Amazing-Man [John Aman]; The Vulture (villain); Tommy the Wonder Boy |
| Notes | Title and character info from Lou Mougin, June 2009. |
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| Featuring | Minimidget |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Minimidgetl Schade; Big Mike (villain); Momk; Ritty |
| Notes | Title and art credit from Lou Mougin, June 2009. |
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| Comic Story | The World's Strongest Girl (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Mighty Man meets Super-Ann the world's strongest girl. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Mighty Man; Super-Ann; Major Jones; Fritz (Nazi agent) |
| Notes | Title from Lou Mougin, June 2009. |
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| Featuring | Life At Its Worst |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Four unrelated gag panels. |
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| Text Story | A Soldier's Courage (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Chuck Connors; Bobby Barton; Colonel Barton |
| Notes | Title and character info from Lou Mougin, June 2009. |
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| Synopsis | A dictatorial foreign nation is very much interested in the invention of a death ray by Bruce King and sends out agents to the United States to capture it. They confront King, who switches to his special uniform and creates total darkness in his lab which creates a numbing cold that incapacitates the agents. However, a Nazi agent, noting the failure of the three agents, kills all three and pins the crime on Bruce King. |
| Featuring | The King of Darkness |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The King of Darkness [Bruce King] (radio engineer, introduction, origin); Sergeant Burke (Policeman, introduction); head Nazi agent (villain, introduction); foreign nation agents [Carl; Hans; Fritz] (villains, introduction for all, all die) |
| Notes | Title and character info from Lou Mougin, June 2009.
Script and art credits reversed by Craig Delich 2018-11-07.
As The King of Darkness, King wears a special cold resisting uniform and special lenses in his helmet allow him to see in the darkness.
Continued next issue. |
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| Synopsis | Former millionaire Harper gives away his money and becomes adventure-loving hobo. |
| Featuring | Hobo Harper |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: John "Hobo" Harper (Introduction); Billy Barton; Baldy; Crisoo; Miles Minter (gambler) |
| Notes | Title and character info from Lou Mougin, June 2009. |
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| Comic Story | Monkey Business (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Phil and Bill |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Phil; Bill |
| Notes | Title from Lou Mougin, June 2009. |
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| Comic Story | Origin of the Blue Lady (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Novelist Lucille Martin is on a boat headed home from China where she was getting proper atmosphere for her new novel, when the maid of Chin Liang informs her that she is carrying a valuable jade idol to New York for her master, and that three enemy agents are on board to stop her. The maid, soon to die, gives Lucille a "Bluebird" ring and the idol to deliver to America. Once home, Lucille finds her home ransacked and the idol missing. When she accidentally drops the ring and steps on it, a mysterious gas is emitted which gives Lucille Martin super-powers, which she uses to retrieve the idol. |
| Featuring | The Blue Lady |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Blue Lady [Lucille Martin] (novelist, introduction, origin); Larry Grant (Lucille's sweetheart, introduction); Lotus (faithful maid of Chin Liang, introduction, death); unnamed banker (introduction, death); Sing Thang (introduction); Chinese gangsters [Lee; others unnamed] (villains, introduction for all) |
| Notes | Title and character info from Lou Mougin, June 2009.
Frollo's signature is found in both the splash panel and the last panel of the story.
Story-line continued in the next issue. |
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| Comic Story | Nightshade -- Nemisis of Gangdom [sic] (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Howard Hall notes a crime in progress and becomes Nightshade to deal with it by saving a young woman and her offspring. The child wears a strange bracelet bearing the coat-of-arms of the nation of Balkania, and it seems that Prince Dumka of Balkania wants to marry the princess and has hired crooks to kidnap her, kill the child, and return the princess to Balkania. |
| Featuring | Nightshade |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy; Superhero | Characters: Nightshade [Howard Hall] (wealthy scientist, introduction and origin); Princess Anna (of Balkania, introduction); Anna's child (Balkania Crown Prince, introduction); Balkania's Consul (introduction); Prince Dumka (of Balkania, introduction); Ivar Kotescu (villain, introduction); Kotescu's gang [Joe; rest unnamed] (villains, introduction for all) |
| Notes | Title and character info from Lou Mougin, June 2009.
Script and art credits courtesy of the Who's Who.
Hall becomes Nightshade by donning dark glasses and a special flashlight to his leg, all of which allows Hall to create a gigantic shadow. |
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