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Publication | February-March 1947 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
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Featuring | Captain Flight |
Content | Genre: Science Fiction |
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Comic Story | Day He Faced the Octopus (10 pages) |
Synopsis | Torpedoman is notified by Salvador that a giant creature lurks beneath the ocean, so he decides to scope it out. Sure enough, he faces the biggest octopus he has ever seen. Suddenly he is attacked and overcome by a group of divers and is taken to their boss, Mr. Fowler. Escaping, Torpedoman, suspicious of the octopus, heads back down to confront it, and discovers it is made of rubber and was being used to scare off unwanted people from discovering a gang's illegal underwater oil-drilling operation. |
Featuring | Torpedo Man |
Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Torpedoman [Don Wallace]; Salvador; Oscar (giant rubber octopus); Tripset (villain); Mr. Fowler (villain) |
Notes | Story title and sequence from Richard Starr on 22 September 2004. |
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Comic Story | Monstrous ..Mutants.. (8 pages) |
Synopsis | Rod is informed that babies are being switched for others in hospitals all over the world and wonders if it has anything to do with his friend, Chuck, and his memory being blanked out, and the planet Mars, which Chuck has just visited. He discovers the mutant minorities on the planet have deemed themselves the majority and seek to make all Martians and humans into mutants like themselves. |
Featuring | Red Rocket |
Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Red Rocket [Rod Page]; Chuck; Hurr (Martian friend of the Red Rocket, death); |
Notes | Last appearance.
Story title and sequence from Richard Starr on 22 September 2004. Signed at bottom of main panel on first page.
Story takes place February 17, 2046. |
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Comic Story | Blue Flame Meets S. Aitan (6 pages) |
Synopsis | The Blue Flame foils S. Aiten's jewelry heist. |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Blue Flame (first appearance); Flaherty; S. Aiten |
Notes | Story title and sequence from Richard Starr on 22 September 2004. |
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Text Story | The Story behind the Cover (2 pages) |
Synopsis | Captain Flight leads a team of scientists to explore a newly discovered planet. |
Featuring | Captain Flight |
Credits | Pencils: L. B. Cole (illustration) | Inks: L. B. Cole (illustration) | Colors: L. B. Cole | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Captain Flight; Professor Burdick; Dr. Bourgo |
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Comic Story | Mummy's Mummy (8 pages) |
Synopsis | Cobra and the Kid prevent a museum robbery of a mummy case containing a fortune in uncut gems. |
Featuring | Black Cobra and the Cobra Kid |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Black Cobra [Jim Hornsby]; The Cobra Kid [Bob Hornsby]; District Attorney Hornsby (Jim and Bob's father); Mr. Abernathy (museum director); two unnamed crooks (villains) |
Notes | Next appearance in Black Cobra (Farrell, 1954 series) #1. |
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Comic Story | Problem with Duke (8 pages) |
Synopsis | Dan and Dee are led on a wild goose chase as they try to find their missing ward. |
Featuring | Dan and Dee |
Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Dan; Dee; Duke Shaw |
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Comic Story | Under the Base of the Statue of Liberty (6 pages) |
Synopsis | Torpedoman discovers a hidden criminal lair. |
Featuring | Torpedo Man |
Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Torpedoman [Don Wallace]; Highpockets (villain) |
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