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| What can I say another great comic book of world war 2. The cover is wonderful. |
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| The art for the Volton stories has to be the absolute worst I've seen for Golden Age comics. Hard to believe anybody in the industry allowed such ugly drawings in a time where Fletcher Hanks' art was considered bad. |
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| Yep, Volton looks like it was drawn by a teenage kid. Which it was. Joe Kubert was 16 years old when he drew this--and he went on to become one of the greats of American comic books. Gotta start somewhere. Joe had already been assisting in comics for two years, so he was able to skip the fanzine stage. |
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| The house ad on the back cover is interesting: one of the selling points is "over 500 pictures!" Actually, that's only about 8 panels per page (not counting the text story, house ads, advertisements, & covers/inside covers). |
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| I didn't expect a reply after what I posted. Sometimes, I think I'm the only one who comments on these Golden Age comics (whenever it's the rare moment I ever do). And that was Kubert?! He did improve a lot over those years. |
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| The art on Volton is nowhere near the worst in a GA comic, imo. Yes, the figure work is all wonky but there are some some good, amusing eccentric faces and some lovely effects. More importantly, even at this early stage Mr. Kubert lets the story flow with a detail in one panel leading the reader to the next. Jesse Marsh was very good at this. But here the layouts aren't strict square panels to a page. There is some creativity and imagination in Volton.
Nice comic. Lots of costumed mystery men and The Hood. A lot to enjoy. |
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| [" Joe had already been assisting in comics for two years, so he was able to skip the fanzine stage. "]
even so, it looks like Fanzine standard art. Joe's Autonomy had a long way to go, but his page layouts are quite sophisticated. Superheroes were never his thing anyway and he avoided them as much as possible. |
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| Additional Information |
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| Publication | June 1942 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Featuring | The Cat-Man |
| Credits | Pencils: Charles M. Quinlan Sr. [as C. M. Q.] (signed) | Inks: Charles M. Quinlan Sr. [as C. M. Q.] (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Cat-Man [David Merrywether]; The Kitten [Katie Conn] |
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| Comic Story | The Case of the Sauce of Disaster (9 pages) |
| Featuring | The Cat-Man and the Kitten |
| Credits | Script: Charles M. Quinlan Jr. [as Chas. M. Quinlan] (signed) | Pencils: Charles M. Quinlan Sr. [as Chas. M. Quinlan] (signed) | Inks: Charles M. Quinlan Sr. [as Chas. M. Quinlan] (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Cat-Man [David Merrywether]; The Kitten [Katie Conn] |
| Notes | Writer credit added by Craig Delich 2012-11-30. Quinlan Jr. was the writer of his father's stories in the 1940's while he was still in high school. |
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| Comic Story | The Explosion Enigma (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Deacon gets a job in a factory in order to track down a saboteur. |
| Featuring | The Deacon |
| Credits | Pencils: Ray Willner | Inks: Ray Willner |
| Content | Characters: The Deacon; Mickey; Carl Pitts; Bohm (villain) |
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| Comic Story | Hell's Kitchen (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | A ship's captain takes money to smuggle spies out of the country and then throws them overboard. |
| Featuring | Rag-Man |
| Credits | Pencils: Allen Ulmer (signed) | Inks: Allen Ulmer |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Ragman; Tiny; Captain Bradley; Dumont (dies); One-Eye |
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| Comic Story | Sinister Conspiracy (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | When the evil Professor Peters experiments with his dynamic Lightning-Gun, Volton feels the electrical emissions and checks up on it, just as the Professor is electrocuted. His two assistants short-circuit Volton and seek out the plans for the Lightning-Gun, which they plan to use for criminal purposes. Learning that the two are Nazi agents, Volton dispatches one and turns the other to the authorities. |
| Featuring | Volton |
| Credits | Pencils: Joe Kubert (signed) | Inks: Joe Kubert (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Volton; Professor Peters (villain, death); Metz (villain, Peter's assistant); Volk (villain, Peter's assistant, death) |
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| Text Story | Frank Fairplay's Cave (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Frank Fairplay |
| Credits | Script: Horace Wallace | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | text w/illo |
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| Comic Story | The Bell Tower of Doom (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Blackout fails to save a member of the underground, but creates a luminous tower to guide RAF planes to their targets. |
| Featuring | Blackout |
| Content | Characters: Blackout [Jack Wayne]; Anna Kovik; Jon Kovik (dies); Doctor Dismal; Otto; Happy |
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| Comic Story | Agents of Nippon (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Katie and Mickey stumble upon a nest of spies. |
| Featuring | Little Leaders |
| Credits | Pencils: Saul Rosen? | Inks: Saul Rosen? |
| Content | Characters: Katie Conn; Mickey |
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| Comic Story | The Reign of Yang (3 pages) |
| Featuring | Alec |
| Credits | Pencils: Rudolph Johnson [as R. Johnson] | Inks: Rudolph Johnson [as R. Johnson] |
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| Comic Story | Battle Stations (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | A British convoy chops through the north Atlantic, and is attacked by Nazi planes. The Phantom Falcon answers an interrupted S.O.S. |
| Featuring | Phantom Falcon |
| Credits | Pencils: Allen Ulmer? |
| Content | Genre: Aviation; War |
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| Featuring | The Indian |
| Credits | Pencils: Courtney Dunkel (signed) | Inks: Courtney Dunkel (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Comic Story | Der Teufel (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | A Nazi saboteur uses explosive arrows to destroy his targets. |
| Featuring | The Hood |
| Credits | Pencils: Alan Mandel (signed) | Inks: Alan Mandel |
| Content | Characters: The Hood [Craig Williams]; Der Teufel (villain) |
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