Issue: #1
Published: January 1940, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Silver Age US Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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 437359.
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Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Superhero |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
The Coming of the Comet |
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After injecting himself with a gas fifty times lighter than hydrogen, John Dickering discovers he can now take leaps that are more like flying. Beams now shoot from his eyes and when the rays cross what ever he's looking at disintegrates. Glass is the only thing that can stop the beams. He vows to use his new powers for good. He starts by going after a typhoid racketeer. Killing three associates The Comet comes upon Dr. Archer and takes him up into the sky to convince him to stop his typhoid racket. After Dr. Archer pleads to be let down The Comet lets him go, letting him fall to his death. |
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Superhero |
| Characters: |
Dr. Archer (villain, Introduction, Death) |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
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War |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
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| Synopsis: |
Fu Chang possesses a set of magic chessmen with all the magic powers of Aladdin’s lamp which are responsible for Fu Chang’s spectacular solutions of great international mysteries. He saves Tay Ming from the Dragon by praying to his god, who brings the chessmen to life to defeat the Dragon and save his girlfriend (later fiancee). |
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Detective-mystery |
| Characters: |
Tay Ming (girlfriend) The Dragon (villain, Introduction) |
| Text Story (2 pages) |
Murderer's Brew |
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Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Crime |
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