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| Date | | Number: 1 | Lang: English (en) | |||
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| Name | Yellowjacket Comics 1 | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 52 | Frequency: monthly |
| Notes | On sale date taken from stamp on comic book currently in the image archive. Cataloged from a scan at Digital Comics Museum. |
| Cover | 1 page |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Yellowjacket (inset) |
| Story | Yellowjacket (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | A gang of crooks chasing a girl, enter the house of Vince Harley, crime fiction writer and beekeeper. The girl slips away and the gang decide to finish Vince off by dumping a hive full of yellowjacket bees inside his house. He is immune to bee stings, can even control them, and gets the idea of how to fight the gang in a yellowjacket outfit. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Yellowjacket [Vince Harley] (introduction; origin); Judy Graves; Jake Mallon (gang boss) |
| Pencils | Ken Battefield |
| First Line | All things have a beginning -- |
| Notes | The crude figures and faces are similar to Battefield's credited stories in this series. |
| Story | Diana the Huntress (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | On Mount Olympus, Zeus decides to let the gods come to the aid of the Allies in their fight against Japan and Germany. Diana is to help them in Greece. |
| Genre | Fantasy; Superhero |
| Characters | Diana the Huntress (introduction); Hercules; Jupiter; Mercury; Discordia |
| Pencils | Gus Schrotter |
| First Line | Mount Olympus -- the hall of the gods... |
| Notes | The art here is similar to Schrotter's signed story in Heroic Comics (Eastern, 1943 series) #38. He has some special scrolls in the ears. |
| Text Story | Message for the Cops (2 pages) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Comic Story | The Black Cat / Famous Tales of Terror (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Adaptation of the Edgar Allan Poe story "The Black Cat" |
| Script | ? (adaptation) |
| Genre | Horror-suspense |
| Characters | Pluto (black cat) |
| Script | Edgar Allan Poe (story) |
| Pencils | Bill Allison |
| Inks | Bill Allison |
| Notes | The very open eyes and soft, rounded inking and also movement is similar to Allison's many credited stories, like Blue Circle Comics #2, Camera Comics #1, Cowboy Western #38. |
| Story | Debunker (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Three trivia facts with illustrations |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| First Line | Washington was first president of the U.S. |
| Story | King of the Beasts (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | A lion tamer is fired for being drunk, and Danny King gets his chance to handle the big cats and the vengeful ex-lion tamer. |
| Genre | Adventure |
| Characters | Danny King (introduction); Russo; Lucy Flair; Whip Chandler |
| Pencils | Harold DeLay |
| Inks | Harold DeLay |
| First Line | Danny King -- the King of the Beasts -- finds he must seize his whip from the hand of death! |
| Notes | DeLay can be recognized by the "slow" movement of the rather short figures. Also faces and the layout style more like old book illustrations. |
| Comic Story | The Man Who Should Have Died / Harbor Lights (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | A sailor is taken captive aboard a Nazi u-boat and lives to tell his story. |
| Genre | War |
| Characters | Jack |
| Pencils | Arnold Hicks |
| Inks | Arnold Hicks |
| Story | Bee Lines (1 page) |
| Synopsis | 8 gag panels |
| Genre | Humor |
| First Line | Better count the crew, captain -- I just found the bomb bay doors open! |
| Story | Filipino Kid (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Japanese march into Manila, and Juan takes up the fight against them. |
| Genre | War |
| Characters | Felipe |
| Pencils | Chu F. Hing |
| Inks | Chu F. Hing |
| First Line | Peril strikes at the Phillipines from Japan -- |
| Notes | Art was previously attributed to Gerald Altman, but the way the eyes, teeth, and ears are drawn more closely resembles those of Chu’s in his Green Turtle art from Blazing Comics (1944-1945). Some of the lettering on the torii on the splash page also matches the lettering on his signed Late Summer painting from 1934: http://chimericaneyes.blogspot.com/2014/01/about-artist-chu-f-hing.html |
| The data in the additional content section is courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution License. More details about this comic may be available in their page here | |
