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| Publication | November 1939 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Featuring | Aman the Amazing-Man |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Superhero | Characters: The Amazing Man [John Aman] |
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| Comic Story | Amazing-Man Loose! (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Having interfered with the plans of the Great Question, the villain arranges for fake witnesses to claim in court that Aman forced a car off the road, killing a maintenance engineer. Forced into a cell, Aman changes into the Green Mist and confronts the witnesses, trying to get them to confess to their treachery. |
| Featuring | Aman the Amazing-Man |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Amazing-Man [John Aman]; Lucille Peabody (image in newspaper); Tom Gregg (maintenance engineer, death); un-named State Engineer; Miss Dean (State Engineer's secretary); The Great Question (villain); Garcia (villain); Murray (villain, death); Karl Holm (villain, aviator, death); Geoffrey Bliss (villain, aviator, death); Henry Muth (villain, engineering contractor, death) |
| Notes | Previous indexer listed script by Bill Everett, revised credit from Gregory Huneryager 2007-5-31. Title and character info from Lou Mougin (May, 2009). |
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| Comic Story | Dinosaur Forest (3 pages) |
| Synopsis | Jay and Ronald discover a location in South America where dinosaurs still live. |
| Featuring | Jay Douglas |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Jay Douglas; Ronald Wells |
| Notes | A Complete Novelette. Info for this sequence from Gregory Huneryager 5/31/2007.
Also signed - as 'L. Golden' - in the final panel. |
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| Comic Story | The "King" of the South Seas (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Pirates launch an attack on the So Chung, a freighter bound for Sydney. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Su; Mr. Jenkins; Finkey; Sir Oliver King; Doris McAllister; William Dites; Ootang; Mr. Wilkes; The King |
| Notes | Data from Jerry Bails index cards & Howard Keltners Golden Age index. Art credit from Gregory Huneryager 5/31/2007. Title from Lou Mougin, May 2009.
Hughes signs both in the splash panel and the penultimate panel of the final page. |
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| Synopsis | Dr. Toyat is kidnapping young women and injecting them with drugs which transform them into giants. Iron Skull forces the mad scientist to undo his experiments. |
| Featuring | The Iron Skull |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Iron Skull; Inspector Bradley; Brown (first appearance, Iron Skull's aide); Dr. Toyat (first appearance, dies); Kito |
| Notes | Info on this sequence from Gregory Huneryager 5/31/2007. Title from Lou Mougin, May 2009.
Also signed - as 'Burgos' - on the final page.
The opening caption of this story reveals Iron Skull's origin and indicates his adventures are supposed to occur some time post-1960. |
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| Comic Story | Origin of the Magician from Mars (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | The daughter of a Martian father and human mother is accidentally exposed to the rays of a cathode tube by her nurse which gives her extraordinary powers and advanced mentality. However, her Earthly heritage of affection for blood relatives is her one weakness. |
| Featuring | Magician from Mars |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction; Superhero | Characters: Magician from Mars [Jane Gem35] (introduction, origin); Jane Faro [Gem35] (Earth woman, mother of daughter Jane); Jarl Gem35 (Martian man, father of daughter Jane); Dr. Clinton (introduction); Jane's Aunt (guardian, introduction) |
| Notes | Art credit from Gregory Huneryager (2007-5-31).
The Who's Who indicates that Giunta did both pencil and ink, and does not indicate that Kildale worked on the strip at all.
Title from Lou Mougin, May 2009. |
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| Synopsis | Minimidget and Ritty battle a weasel. |
| Featuring | Minimidget the Miniature Man |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Minimidget; Ritty |
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| Text Story | First to Luna (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | George races his rocket, the Black Bullet, to the moon to break the speed record. |
| Credits | Pencils:? (spot illustration) | Inks:? (spot illustration) | Colors:? (spot illustration) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: George Court; Yvonne Van Lommen; Denis Farrish |
| Notes | Info on this sequence from Gregory Huneryager 2007-05-31. |
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| Synopsis | Chuck and Jerry learn to speak Aquatanian. Oxan challenges Chuck to test his strength. Chastened when Chuck defeats him, Oxan declares he's now Chuck's servant. |
| Featuring | Chuck Hardy; Land Beneath the Sea |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Chuck Hardy; Jerry Peterson; Kustan; Wistom; Oxan |
| Notes | Title from Lou Mougin, May 2009. |
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| Synopsis | Mighty Man solves the murder of a ranger in lumber country. |
| Featuring | Mighty Man |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Mighty Man; Jane; Joe |
| Notes | Title from Lou Mougin, May 2009. |
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| Synopsis | The Shark learns he's the son of Father Neptune. Neptune grants the Shark additional strength while on land. The Shark and Father Neptune work together to stop Dr. Stepet from using his ray gun which can evaporate entire lakes. An octopus kills Dr. Stepet. |
| Featuring | The Shark |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Shark; Father Neptune; Dr. Stepet (first appearance, dies); J. J. Stone |
| Notes | Title from Lou Mougin, May 2009. |
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