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| Name | Weird Comics 5 | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 68 | Frequency: monthly |
| Notes | The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1940, New Series, Vol. 35, No. 3. |
| Cover | 1 page |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Characters | Dr. Mortal; Gary Brent; Marlene |
| Pencils | Bert Whitman |
| Inks | Bert Whitman |
| First Line | Humans shrank to tiny dolls as the fiendish Dr. Mortal used his serum |
| Notes | Art taken from the Dr. Mortal splash page inside the comic. |
| Publisher advertisement | No Title (1 page) |
| Feature | Blue Beetle |
| Letters | typeset |
| Characters | Blue Beetle [Dan Garret] |
| First Line | Because you demand it! |
| Notes | Inside front cover. House ad for the Blue Beetle. |
| Story | The Dart (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Caius, known in ancient Rome as the terror of Roman racketeers, by magical incantations, is put into a deep sleep for 2200 years, awakening in a museum. Upon exiting into the modern world, he sees a vicious gang attempting to kill a young boy, Ace Barlow, and saves him. He adopts the boy and trains him to be his sidekick and together they battle against the Ricarno Gang, responsible for killing Ace's parents. |
| Script | ? [as Jerry Abus] (credited) |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | The Dart [Caius Martius Wheeler] (introduction, origin); Ace Barlow (introduction, adoptee of Caius); General Sulla (leader of the Roman Army, flashback); Marius (villain, flashback); Lucius (villain, flashback); Ricarno (villain); Ricarno's gang [Kid Frost; others unnamed] (villains) |
| Pencils | Pierce Rice |
| Inks | Louis Cazeneuve |
| First Line | In ancient Rome, Caius Martius, the terror of Roman racketeers, is breaking up an extortion racket... |
| Notes | Louis Cazeneuve created this character. Penciller revision from Cazeneuve to Rice per reprint. Jerry Abus is a house name. The Dart had the uncanny ability to "dart" through the air, hence his name. |
| Story | Thor (8 pages) |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Dr. Hsin; Mako; Grant Farrel [Thor]; Glenda |
| Pencils | Pierce Rice |
| Inks | Pierce Rice |
| First Line | Accompanied by his secretary Glenda, Grant, head of the Chinese relief mission, strolls on the deck of a huge trans-Pacific liner, en route to China... |
| Notes | last appearance |
| Story | The Sorceress of Zoom (8 pages) |
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Characters | Labi-Bey; Rani-Bey; Sorceress of Zoom |
| Pencils | Don Rico |
| Inks | Don Rico |
| First Line | Determined to rule the mystical East, the Sorceress of Zoom plans to place her magical city in the heart of India [sic] |
| Story | Solar Plexis (2 pages) |
| Pencils | ? [as Jupiter] |
| Genre | Humor |
| Characters | Solar Plexis; King Socko |
| First Line | Solar, this message must be given personally to... |
| Comic Story | On the Ice Planet / Blast Bennett (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | Blast stops Keero's coup to seize the throne of Ilera. |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Characters | Empress Ilera; Darno; Keero; Blast Bennett |
| Pencils | Don Rico |
| Inks | Don Rico |
| First Line | Speeding thru the vast emptiness of space at millions of miles a minute, Blast Bennett finds an ice covered planet... |
| Comic Story | The Man-Ape / Dr. Mortal (6 pages) |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Characters | The Ape; Dr. Mortal; Marlene; Gary Brent; Dr. Clark |
| Script | Bert Whitman |
| Pencils | Bert Whitman |
| Inks | Bert Whitman |
| First Line | Dr. Mortal, in his experiments to create a perfect automaton, makes an amazing discovery in examining the brain fluid of man and ape... |
| Text Story | Blood and Thunder News (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Steve Rider, a newspaper reporter, uncovers a cell of revolutionaries. |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Drama |
| Characters | Steve Rider; Professor Nixon |
| Script | B. A. Martin |
| First Line | Throughout the eastern seaboard town newspapers were fraught with screaming headlines... |
| Notes | Fairmont |
| Comic Story | Boanga's Zombie Corps / The Voodoo Man (8 pages) |
| Pencils | ? [as Allan Spectre] |
| Characters | Bob Warren; Petro; Boanga; Stanley Hibbert; Gloria Hibbert |
| First Line | At midnight in a native cemetary, voodoo dancers work themselves into a horrible frenzy! |
| Publisher advertisement | No Title (1 page) |
| Feature | Rex Dexter of Mars |
| Letters | typeset |
| Characters | Rex Dexter |
| First Line | Trapped on a strange planet, Rex, single-handed, thwarts a diabolical plot against the universe |
| Notes | House ad for Rex Dexter appearing in his own title and in Mystery Men Comics. |
| Story | Typhon (10 pages) |
| Pencils | ? [as Phillips Judge] |
| Genre | Adventure; Science Fiction |
| Characters | Sea Amazons; Queen Mea; Mikal; Sea Demons; Typhon; Hank |
| First Line | While scanning the undersea horizon thru his hydroscope, Typhon, adventurer of the deep, see a horde of strange, weird, sea demons embark on a secret raiding trip! |
| Advertisement | No Title (1 page) |
| Script | ? (ad copy) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Characters | Blue Beetle [Dan Garret] |
| First Line | Blue Beetle on the air! |
| Notes | Ad for the Blue Beetle radio program. |
| Comic Story | No Title (1 page) |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| First Line | How would you like this for a pet? |
| Notes | Facts about various animals are presented in this feature. |
| Publisher advertisement | No Title (1 page) |
| Script | ? (ad copy) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Characters | Flame [Gary Preston]; Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; Samson; Eagle; Voodoo Man |
| First Line | 5 Fox comics every month |
| Notes | Inside back cover. House ad for five titles published by Fox. |
| Publisher advertisement | No Title (1 page) |
| Feature | Green Mask |
| Script | ? (ad copy) |
| Letters | ?; typeset |
| Characters | Green Mask [Michael Shelby] |
| Pencils | Lou Fine ? |
| Inks | Lou Fine ? |
| First Line | Just out the Green Mask |
| Notes | Back cover. House ad for the Green Mask appearing in his own title. |
| 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 | |
