Digital Comic Museum - Top-Notch Comics 08 (1940)


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Issue: #8
Published: September 1940, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing: Harry Shorten
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US Paper Stock: Glossy Cover, Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1941, New Series, Vol. 36, No. 3.

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)	The Marvel of 1940 Roy... The Super-Boy!
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	The Wizard [Blane Whitney] Roy The Super-Boy [Roy Carter] The Firefly [Harley Hudson] (inset)

Comic Story (13 pages)	Roy the Super-Boy
Synopsis:	The Wizard becomes a newspaper publisher.
Genre:	Fantasy
Characters:	The Wizard [Blane Whitney] Roy The Super-Boy [Roy Carter] (introduction, Origin) John Howard (introduction, Death) James Reagan Mayor Beadle (villain, Introduction) Boss Schultz (villain, Introduction, Death)

Comic Story (7 pages)	Origin of the Firefly
Synopsis:	An accomplished scientist, Harley Hudson discovers the secret of the tremendous strength of insects. Suddenly, the lights in the lab go out and some fireflies flicker in, lighting up the darkness. And Harley knows that he must adopt that guise of a firefly in order to light up the darkness that shrouds the underworld.
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	The Firefly [Harley Hudson] (chemist. Biologist, Introduction, Origin) Joan Burton (Harley's Girlfriend, Introduction) Dr. Dread [aka The Professor] (villain, Introduction) Selig (villain, Introduction) Monsters (villains, Introduction For All)

Comic Story (6 pages)	The Danish-Irish Attack
Characters:	King Of Pellinore (Introduction) The Irish King (Villain Introduction) The Danish King (Villain

Comic Story (6 pages)	Ma-Ma Mosquito
Characters:	Madame Chao Yu-Tang (Introduction) The Japanese (Villains)

Text Story (1 page)	Lariat Law
Credits:	Script: The Trail Boss \| Pencils: ? [as H.] (signed) (illustration) \| Inks: ? [as H.] (signed) (illustration) \| Letters: typeset

Comic Story (6 pages)	Escape on Io
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Quantus (Villain) Lura (Villain)

Comic Story (6 pages)	The Camouflaged Air Base
Characters:	The Nazis (Villain)

Comic Story (6 pages)	In India (Part 2)
Characters:	Jessups (Guest Star) Margie Conway (Guest Star) Ah Ming (Villain) Cannibals (Villain Intro)

Comic Story (6 pages)	The Mystery of the Kidnapped Policemen
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Bob Phantom [Walt Whitney]

Comic Story (6 pages)	The Master Brahmins: Part 3
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Master Of The Valley Of Death (Villain Intro)

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