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| Name | Science Comics 1 | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 68 |
| Notes | On sale date from the publication date found at the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, January-December 1940, Numbers 1-4. Second class permit. Copyright number 444546. The Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, January-December 1940, Numbers 1-4 lists another issue #1 sent to the copyright office with the publication date of November 25, 1939, copyright number 435618, with a cover date of January 1940. This could have been for an ashcan edition of the title. |
| Cover | 1 page |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Electro [Jim Andrews] |
| Pencils | Lou Fine |
| Inks | Lou Fine |
| First Line | With a lightning flash Electro suddenly appeared |
| Comic Story | Origin of the Eagle / The Eagle (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Bill Powers returns home from vacation and, as the Eagle, captures the Purple Gang. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | The Eagle [Bill Powers] (first appearance, origin); Jason (first appearance); The Purple Gang (first appearance, villains) |
| Pencils | Emil Gershwin ? |
| Inks | Emil Gershwin ? |
| Comic Story | The Origin of Electro / Dynamo (12 pages) |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Electro [Jim Andrews] (first appearance, origin, becomes Dynamo in next issue); Saunders (first appearance); the President's daughter (first appearance); The Gerlandians (first appearance, villains) |
| Pencils | Bob Webb ? |
| Inks | Bob Webb ? |
| Notes | The "Electro" feature changes its name to "Dynamo" next issue, and stays that way to the end. The name change is probably because Fox discovered that Marvel (Timely) already had an established "Electro" feature. |
| Comic Story | The Fang Men of Jupiter / Cosmic Carson (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Cosmic Carson fights against a band of pirates - the Fang Men of Jupiter. |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Characters | Cosmic Carson (first appearance); Roland (first appearance); Fang Men of Jupiter (first appearance, villains, one dies); Okal |
| Pencils | George Tuska |
| Inks | George Tuska |
| First Line | Carson grapples in space with the Fang Men of Jupiter... |
| Comic Story | The Space Slavers / Perisphere Payne (8 pages) |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Characters | Perisphere Payne (first appearance); Villon (first appearance, villain, death) |
| Pencils | Arnold Haney |
| First Line | It is the year 2000, and the American Interplanetary Transport Company has established regular air routes to all the major planets. |
| Activity | No Title (1 page) |
| First Line | Construct a bomber |
| Notes | Patterns and instructions on how to build a cardboard bomber plane. |
| Activity | No Title (1 page) |
| First Line | Build your own battleship!! |
| Notes | Patterns and instructions on how to build a battleship using cardboard. |
| Comic Story | Origin of Marga, the Panther Woman / Marga the Panther Woman (8 pages) |
| Genre | Jungle; Science Fiction |
| Characters | Marga [the Panther Woman] (first appearance, origin); Von Dorf (first appearance, villain, death); Ted Grant (first appearance, not DC's Wildcat!) |
| Pencils | Emil Gershwin ? |
| Inks | Emil Gershwin ? |
| First Line | Von Dorf, a mad physio-biologist, escaped into the heart of the African jungle from an asylum. |
| Text Story | Death on the Air Waves (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Dick Gordon investigates the death of Jeff Stone and discovers a race of beings that live within radio waves. |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Characters | Jeff Stone; Dick Gordon; Maxwell |
| Script | Rodney Weems |
| First Line | Jeff Stone climbed to his little attic "studio," and shut the door behind him. |
| Comic Story | The Shrinking Serum / Dr. Doom (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | While exploring a strange land, Jan and Wanda are captured, and experimented on, by Dr. Doom. |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Characters | Dr. Doom (first appearance, villain); Jan Swift (first appearance); Wanda (first appearance) |
| Pencils | Richard Crater |
| First Line | In a weird laboratory, miles from civilization, the mad Dr. Doom works fiendishly... |
| Comic Story | Origin of Navy Jones / Navy Jones (8 pages) |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Characters | Navy Jones (first appearance, origin); King of a sub-sea people (first appearance); Princess Coral (first appearance); The prime minister (first appearance, villain) |
| Script | Bert Whitman |
| Pencils | Bert Whitman |
| Inks | Bert Whitman |
| First Line | Disaster looms, as Navy Jones, commander of the Z-81, journeys on his undersea voyage... |
| 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 | |
