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| Date | | Number: 1 | Lang: English (en) | |||
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| Name | Slam Bang Comics 1 | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 68 | Frequency: monthly |
| 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. Class B periodical. Copyright number B 445304. Published at 1100 West Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky. General Offices: Fawcett Building, Greenwich, Connecticut. Editorial Offices: 1501 Broadway, New York, New York. Copyright 1940 by Fawcett Publications, Inc. Subscription rates, 1.20 USD for United States, 1.70 USD for Canada, and 2.20 USD for foreign. |
| Cover | 1 page |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Diamond Jack |
| Pencils | Gus Ricca |
| Inks | Gus Ricca |
| Publisher advertisement | Wherever Stars Gather...You'll Find Whiz Comics (1 page) |
| Script | ? (promo copy) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Inside front cover. Photograph of Gene Autry and Jane Withers reading a copy of Whiz Comics (Fawcett, 1940 series) #3 (March 1940) while on the set of the movie Shooting High. Indicia at the bottom of the page. |
| Story | Diamond Jack (10 pages) |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Diamond Jack (introduction, origin); unnamed gangster leader (villain); unnamed gangsters (villains); The Witch (villain, introduction); Dragon of Smoke (villain, destroyed); unnamed rookie patrolman |
| Pencils | Gus Ricca |
| Inks | Gus Ricca |
| First Line | Diamond Jack, in possession of a miraculous diamond given him by an old magician... |
| Cartoon | Slam-Bang Gags (1 page) |
| Genre | Humor |
| Script | Jack Cole (see notes) |
| Pencils | Jack Cole (see notes) |
| Inks | Jack Cole (see notes) |
| Letters | Jack Cole (see notes) |
| First Line | Well, where have you been? |
| Notes | Four gag panels and one gag strip. Creator identified by Frank M. Young in a posting in the Comics History Exchange page on Facebook (19 June 2017). |
| Story | War Bird (8 pages) |
| Genre | Aviation |
| Characters | The War Bird [Captain Tom Sharp] (introduction, origin); unnamed Eagle Squadron members; unnamed Major (Commandant) Von Kruhl (villain, introduction, death); Sermian pilots; Fritz |
| First Line | Tom Sharp, crack American mail pilot, sought new adventures... |
| Story | Jim Dolan (8 pages) |
| Genre | Adventure; Detective-mystery |
| Characters | Jim Dolan (introduction); Sally Alden (introduction); Tony Bond (introduction, death); Mrs. Bond; Spike Rossi (villain, introduction); Phantom Axe Murderer; unnamed Rossi's thugs; Joe (Rossi thug); unnamed police chief |
| Pencils | Gus Ricca |
| Inks | Gus Ricca |
| First Line | Jim Dolan-hard hitting editor of Daring Detective Magazine... |
| Story | Lucky Lawton (8 pages) |
| Genre | Western-frontier |
| Characters | Marshal Lucky Lawton (introduction); Pal (Lucky's dog); Jane Curtis; Jeff Curtis (mayor of El Rio); Spiven (villain, death); Barren (villain, death); Dexter (villain, death); Brody (a deputy, villain, death); Reynolds (a lawyer, villain, death); two unnamed bandits (villains, deaths) |
| Pencils | Hal Sharp |
| Inks | Hal Sharp |
| First Line | Lucky Lawton takes on the job of wiping out a gang of killers... |
| Text Story | Tree-Top Murder (2 pages) |
| Pencils | ? (illustrations) |
| Inks | ? (illustrations) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Adventure |
| Characters | Bull Martin; Dexter Drake; William J. Howell |
| Story | Lee Granger, Jungle King (10 pages) |
| Genre | Jungle |
| Characters | Jungle King [Lee Granger] (introduction; origin); Eric (a talking lion); Ali (introduction, villain, death); Hassan (introduction); unnamed air crewman; unnamed pygmy warriors; unnamed pygmy chief |
| Script | Manly Wade Wellman (see notes) |
| Pencils | Jack Binder ? |
| Inks | Jack Binder ? |
| First Line | Is my plane ready? |
| Notes | Script credit from Bob Hughes, through textual analysis: excessive use of passive voice and run on sentences held together by ellipses. |
| Story | Hurricane Hansen (8 pages) |
| Genre | Adventure; War |
| Characters | Hurricane Hansen (introduction); unnamed British admiral; unnamed ship raider crew; unnamed Kazilian submarine crew (deaths); unnamed Kazilian battleship crew (deaths); unnamed Britania crew |
| Pencils | Mike Suchorsky |
| Inks | Mike Suchorsky |
| First Line | Hurricane Hansen, young American-sea adventurer, joins the British Navy... |
| Story | Mark Swift and the Time Retarder (9 pages) |
| Genre | Historical; Science Fiction |
| Characters | Mark Swift (introduction, origin); Rodney Kent and the Time Retarder (introduction); Eric (a Viking, introduction); Elisha (Viking princess, introduction); unnamed Native Americans; unnamed Native American Chief; a dragon |
| First Line | Mr. Rodney Kent, grade school teacher in Greenville... |
| Publisher advertisement | Slam-Bang Popularity Contest (1 page) |
| Script | ? (promo copy) |
| Pencils | ? (vignettes) |
| Inks | ? (vignettes) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Characters | Jungle King [Lee Granger]; Mark Swift; Lucky Lawton; Diamond Jack; Hurricane Hansen; War Bird [Captain Tom Sharp]; Jim Dolan |
| Notes | Inside back cover. Promotional advertisement to determine the readers favorite feature in the form of a coupon submission contest. |
| Advertisement | Money and Big Prizes (1 page) |
| Script | ? (ad copy) |
| Pencils | ? (illustrations) |
| Inks | ? (illustrations) |
| Letters | ?; typeset |
| Notes | Back cover. Advertisement to sell magazines and earn prizes from The Crowell-Collier Publishing Company of Springfield, Ohio. |
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