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| Name | Science Comics 2 | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 68 | Frequency: monthly |
| Notes | Original index by Lou Mougin, indicia, additional characters, synopses, fillers and ads added by Henry Andrews 12/2008. Indicia: SCIENCE COMICS, Vol. 1, No. 2, is published monthly by Fox Publications, Inc. Office of publicaion, 1 Appleton Street, Holyoke, Mass. Editorial and Executive offices, 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, N. Y. Application for entry as second-class matter at the Post Office at Holyoke, Mass., under the Act of March 3, 1879, pending. Price 10 cents per copy. Subscription rates: 12 issues in the United States, and its possessions, Mexico, South America, Spain, $1.50. The Publisher accepts no responsibility for unsolicited material. Copyright, 1939, by Fox Publications, inc. Contents must not be reproduced without permission. The names of all characters that are used are fictitious. Use of a name which is the same as that of any living person is accidental. For advertising rates, address: Advertising Manager, Fox Publications, Inc., 480 Lexington Ave., New York City. Mid-Western Office, 7310 Woodward Ave., Detroit, Mich. Printed in the U. S. A. 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 445438. |
| Cover | 1 page |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Dynamo (formerly Electro) |
| Pencils | Lou Fine |
| Inks | Lou Fine |
| First Line | With one paralyzing thrust, Dynamo disabled the huge power plant |
| Filler | No Title (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Two illustrated accounts of crimes solved by science. |
| Feature | Science Fights Crime! |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Notes | Inside front cover. Only appearance of the "Science Fights Crime!" feature. |
| Comic Story | The Mail Pirates / The Eagle (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Eagle investigates a series of mail planes that have gone missing while flying over the Rockies. He finds and brings to justice the gang that has been shooting them down and stealing the mail. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | The Eagle [Ted Powers; Bill Powers] (The Eagle's first name is Ted in the first few panels and Bill in the last few- Bill is used in later appearances); Jason; Blackie (villain; introduction); Blackie's gang of mail pirates (villains; introduction) |
| Pencils | Emil Gershwin (signed) ? |
| Inks | Emil Gershwin ? |
| Comic Story | The Fort Knox Gold Robbery / Dynamo (12 pages) |
| Synopsis | Dynamo tracks the stolen gold to a mansion where an "artist" was hiding it inside of bronze statues. When the rest of the gang attacks him, Dynamo uses his powers to electroplate them in the gold and delivers them to the federal men. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Dynamo (formerly Electro) |
| Pencils | Bob Webb (signed) ? |
| Inks | Bob Webb ? |
| Notes | formerly Electro; probably changed due to Timely's Electro from MARVEL MYSTERY COMICS. In some panels (but not all), Dynamo's costume still has an "E" on the front above the lightning bolt. |
| Comic Story | Master of the Ice Ray / Cosmic Carson (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Cosmic Carson goes in search of a space expedition that never returned. He is captured by the same inhabitants of the planet that the original team was- a race of men with skull-like features. Using his superior strength he escapes, frees the other Earthmen, tricks the Skull Men into destroying their own weapons, and bombs them out of existence as he flies back to Earth. |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Characters | Cosmic Carson; The Skull-Men (villains; introduction; death) |
| Pencils | George Tuska (signed) |
| Inks | George Tuska |
| Comic Story | Attack On the Moon / Perisphere Payne (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Perisphere Payne heads a team sent to help the refueling station on the Moon defeat an invasion. He discovers that the invasion is coming from a city deep in the Moon's core and destroys the city with explosives. |
| Pencils | ? [as Arnold Haney] (signed) |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Characters | Perisphere Payne |
| Activity | Build a Fighting Plane (1 page) |
| Notes | Patterns intended to be traced on cardboard, cut out and assembled into a plane. |
| Activity | Build a Super-Locomotive (1 page) |
| Notes | Patterns intended to be traced on cardboard, cut out and assembled into a locomotive. |
| Comic Story | Uchunko, Ruler of the Jungle / Marga the Panther Woman (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Marga and Ted are captured by Uchunko, who believes himself the rightful rule of the jungle. He intends to kill Ted by throwing him in a pit and rule with Marga at his side, but Marga escapes and rescues Ted and the two fight their way back to civilization. |
| Genre | Jungle |
| Characters | Marga; Ted Grant; Uchunko (villain; introduction) |
| Pencils | Emil Gershwin (signed) ? |
| Inks | Emil Gershwin ? |
| Text Story | Gold...1000 Miles Down (2 pages) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Text with illustrations. |
| Comic Story | Battle of the Insects / Dr. Doom (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Dr. Doom escapes from Jan and Wanda who pursue him back to Jupiter. He captures them and subjects them and his other captives to his diminishing ray. Shrunken down to insect size, Jan, Wanda and the other captives must fight mosquitoes as one of Dr. Doom's "experiements". When they defeat the mosquitoes Dr. Doom restores their size, and they overpower him and escape, leaving him chained in his lab. |
| Pencils | ? [as Richard Crater] (signed) |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Characters | Dr. Doom (villain); Jan; Wanda |
| Comic Story | The Prime Minister Strikes Back / Navy Jones (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | The deposed Prime Minister invades and captures the city of the fish men. Navy Jones arrives just in time to save the King from being fed to a giant two-headed carnivorous plant. As the King goes to prepare explosives Navy rescues Princess Coral from the Prime Minister, throwing him into a pen of hungry sea swine. As Navy and the Princess escape, the King blows up the whole city and the invaders that were occupying it. |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Characters | Navy Jones; Princess Coral; The King; The Prime Minister (villain; death) |
| Script | Bert Whitman |
| Pencils | Bert Whitman (signed) |
| Inks | Bert Whitman (signed) |
| Notes | Page count correction by Len Wolinsky via error report. |
| Publisher advertisement | 5 Direct Hits (1 page) |
| Feature | Wonderworld Comics; Mystery Men Comics; Fantastic Comics; Science Comics; Weird Comics |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Ad for Fox's five main anthologies, featuring a drawing of a cannon plus miniature reproductions of the covers to Wonderworld Comics #11, Mystery Men Comics #8, Fantastic Comics #4, Science Comics #1 and Weird Comcis #1. Inside back cover. |
| Advertisement | Johnson Smith & Co. (1 page) |
| Feature | Johnson Smith & Co. |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | 30+ small ads, some with illustrations, for products offered by Johnson Smith & Co. Back cover. |
| 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 | |
