Issue: #5
Published: September 1939, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing:
Color: Color Cover; Color Interior Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: September 1939--Volume 1, Number 5--AMAZING MAN COMICS is published monthly by Comic Corporation of America, 29 Worthington St., Springfield, Mass. Editorial and Executive Offices: 220 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y. Application for entry as second class matter at Springfield, Mass. pending. Single copies 10c--annual subscription $1.00 in U. S. A.: other countries $1.50. Copyright 1939 by Comic Corporation of America. No actual person is named or delineated in this fiction magazine. Contents must not be reproduced without permission.
Printed in U. S.A. [sic- inconsistent spacing]
This is the first comic published by Comic Corporation of America, and remained the only such series until the collapse of the Centaur Publications, Inc. line at the end of 1940.
Original index from Jerry Bails' index cards & Howard Keltner's Golden Age index. Updated from scan from http://www.goldenagecomics.co.uk/
On sale date from the publication date found at the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 34, 1939, Number 3. Second class permit. Copyright number 427245.
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| Text Story (2 pages) |
The Tragic Note |
| Synopsis: |
In order to explain why he refuses to perform a certain piece of music, Aman tells of his musical testing during his time in Tibet. |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Superhero |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
The Congo War Drum (Part 1) |
| Synopsis: |
"Sandy" Thorne of the Congo patrol and his servant Labu go in search of the source of the Congo war drums, knowing they mean trouble. |
| Genre: |
Jungle |
| Characters: |
"Sandy" Thorne Labu (Thorne's Servant) The Kilanga |
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