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| Publication | June 1941 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
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| Featuring | Flash Lightning |
| Credits | Pencils: Jim Mooney [as Mooney] (signed) | Inks: Jim Mooney [as Mooney] (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Flash Lightning [Robert Morgan]; Amy Lane; The Mastermind; The Mummy [Professor Vatz] |
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| Synopsis | The Mastermind constructs a weird machine in a castle owned by scientist Amy Lane, a machine that attracts lightning into the room it's in and from which the Mastermind can absorb lightning and gain powers similar to those of Flash Lightning. Then he visits the Mummy at a hospital and convinces him to provide him with the villain's radium protective coating and tell him how to use it so that he can protect himself from bullets and other weapons. |
| Featuring | Flash Lightning |
| Credits | Pencils: Jim Mooney (signed) | Inks: Jim Mooney (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Flash Lightning [Robert Morgan]; Amy Lane (scientist); The Old Man of the Pyramids; The Mastermind (villain); The Mummy [Professor Vatz] (villain, death) |
| Notes | Mastermind apparently dies at the end of this story, but returns in the next two issues.
Inks credit from article in Alter Ego #133 (June, 2015). |
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| Featuring | The Raven |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Raven [Detective Sgt. Danny Dartin]; Lola Lash (Danny's fiancée); Police Chief Lash (Lola's father); un-named Police Commissioner; Mr. Calhoun (villain, President of the Chasmber of Commerce); Mike (villain) |
| Notes | While eating at an lunch wagon, Danny sees people going in and out of a back room, and figures that something illicit is going on. Further investigation uncovers a secret gambling den, which he soon rounds up and has jailed. |
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| Synopsis | Dr. Nemesis takes on a pair of corrupt building contractors who are using inferior materials in their building projects, causing buildings to collapse unexpectedly. |
| Featuring | Doctor Nemesis Rx |
| Credits | Pencils: Harry Anderson | Inks: Harry Anderson |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Dr. Nemesis [Dr. Jim Bradley]; Mike Johnson (construction foreman); Jake (ambulance driver); Dr. Fowler (surgeon); Tom (small boy); Max McNulty (villain, contractor, death); Al Mirch (villain, McNulty's business partner) |
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| Featuring | Marvo the Magician and Tito |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Marvo; Tito (a monkey); June Reeves (manager of a charity vaudeville show); Squire Baxter (villain); Joe (villain); Spike (villain) |
| Notes | While having a flat tire repaired in Pleasantville, Marvo decides to take in a vaudeville show, whose gate receipts go to an orphan's home. When thugs ruin the show by tossing vegetables at the entertainers, Marvo decides to put on his own show! |
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| Text Story | I Knew Buffalo Bill (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Detailed biography of Buffalo Bill Cody. |
| Credits | Script:? [as "Old-Timer"] (signed) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Biography; Western-frontier | Characters: Buffalo Bill Cody (death); Mr. Cody (Buffalo Bill's father, death); Kit Carson; President Abraham Lincoln; Lew Simpson; Jim "Wild Bill" Hickok (death); J. B. Studley (actor); Ned Buntline; Bill Mulligan (buffalo hunter); Billy Comstock; Texas Jack Omohundro; Frank Mordaunt (actor); Mlle. Morlacchi (actress); Harry Mainhall (actor); Jennie Fisher (actress); Lizzie Safford (actress); Eliza Hudson (actress); J. V. Arlington (actor); Major John Burke (Bill Cody's press agent); Mrs. Lew Decker (Bill Cody's sister); Chief Yellow Hand (villain, death) |
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| Synopsis | In the African Congo, weirdly garbed green invaders burst forth on the scene, killing local natives. One of the escapees alerts Jack and Clem of the danger, and both go to investigate. |
| Featuring | Congo Jack |
| Credits | Pencils: Mark Schneider (signed) | Inks: Mark Schneider (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Jungle; Science Fiction | Characters: Congo Jack; Clem Jones (Jack's friend); the Molemen [Sir Lugi; un-named others] (villains, green men from the bowels of the Earth); Queen Moletta (villain, Molemen's leader) |
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| Synopsis | Hap goes down to a local store to buy cigars for his editor, and, when he returns and gives his boss the cigars and change, he is told that one of the bills is counterfeit. Since the city is being flooded with such bills, Hap is told to go back to the store and get a real bill to replace it. When he does, he sees the girl clerk being kidnapped. |
| Featuring | Hap Hazard |
| Credits | Pencils: Gus Schrotter | Inks: Gus Schrotter |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor | Characters: Hap Hazard (copy boy of the Daily Star); un-named Daily Star City Editor; un-named store clerk; un-named boss of the counterfeiters (villain); Bugs (villain) |
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| Synopsis | Whiz sets his Futuroscope to the year of 2300 and is transported to the Planet Mongo, where the four-armed Mongolians consider him, a Professor and his daughter to be their enemies. However, when a balloon corps from an enemy planet attacks, Whiz and company help to overcome them and save Mongo. |
| Featuring | Whiz Wilson |
| Credits | Pencils: Red Holmdale? | Inks: Red Holmdale? |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Whiz Wilson; Professor Morrow (visiting Earthman); Ellen Morrow (his daughter); the Mongolians; the Zanians (villains) |
| Notes | Art credits per Who's Who, added by Craig Delich 2012-9-23. |
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| Publisher advertisement | The Big Reward (1 page) |
| Synopsis | The lure of being able to read a copy of Super-Mystery Comics encourages a boxer to win his fight. |
| Notes | A comics form promo for Super-Mystery Comics.
Located on.inside rear cover. |
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