Weird Comics
#8
(November 1940)
Fox,
1940 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1940-09-15
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Fox Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
A Fox Feature Comic FP
- Editing
- Victor Fox
Issue Notes
The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1940, New Series, Vol. 35, No. 4.
[no title indexed]
The Dart / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Edd Ashe ?
- Inks
- Edd Ashe ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Dart [Caius Martius Wheeler]; Ace [Ace Barlow]
[The Motor Company Mobsters]
The Dart / comic story / 10 pages
- Feature Logo
- The Dart and Ace
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Dart [Caius Martius Wheeler] (school teacher); Ace [Ace Barlow]; Betty (student); Basco (villain, motor company President, introduction); Alvo (villain, introduction); Nick (villain, introduction)
- Synopsis
- At the request of one of his students, Mr. Wheeler decides to help her discover what happened to her father, missing for two weeks in California. As the Dart, he and Ace decide to investigate the Ajax Motor Company, whom her father had a connection with.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Ajax Motor Company
Indexer Notes
The Dart was the reincarnation of the ancient Roman racketbuster, Caius Martius, and is known in present times as Caius Martius Wheeler, a teacher.
[Science vs. Sorcery]
The Sorceress of Zoom / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Sorceress of Zoom (villain); Super-Scientist (introduction, turned into a rat)
Stop Doctor Mortal!
Dr. Mortal / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Bert Whitman (credited as Godfrey Clarke)
- Pencils
- Bert Whitman
- Inks
- Bert Whitman
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- adventure; superhero
- Characters
- Gary (Mortal's nephew); Marlene (Mortal's niece); Policemen (many die); Dr. Mortal (villain, scientist); Ulan (villain, Mortal's assistant, introduction, death)
- Synopsis
- Because of his death feud against the world, Police officers are sent out to bring the evil Doctor Feud in: dead or alive. When they fail to do the job, Gary and Marlene take on the task.
- Reprints
[The Super-Science Spies]
Dynamo / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Joe Simon ?
- Pencils
- Robert Webb ? [as Harold Weber] (signed)
- Inks
- Robert Webb ? [as Harold Weber] (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Dynamo [Jim Andrews] (electrical expert); Ingres (death); Stark (villain, detective); Stark's gang (villains, introduction for all)
- Synopsis
- Dynamo gets involved after a fellow worker is killed and defense plans that Andrews had been working on are stolen.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Last appearance was in Science Comics #8.
[The Rudite Crystals]
Marga the Panther Woman / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- ? [as James T. Royal] (credited)
- Pencils
- Louis Cazeneuve
- Inks
- Louis Cazeneuve
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- adventure; jungle
- Characters
- Marga; Ted Grant; Professor Reid; Mr. Brunt (villain); glacial savages (villains, some die)
- Synopsis
- Marga, Ted and Mr. Brunt set out to fly to the Arctic regions to find a supply of rudite, a rare mineral that helps improve alloys for government guns.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Last appearance was in Science Comics #8.
James T. Royal was a by-line used by Fox Publications.
Art credits suggested by the Who's Who.
[The Coming of the Eagle]
The Eagle / comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Louis Cazeneuve (signed as Lester Raye)
- Inks
- Louis Cazeneuve (signed as Lester Raye)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- The Eagle [Bill Powers] (origin, brief mention); Jason; Mr. Thorne; Browden; Rider (villain, introduction); Otho (villain)
- Synopsis
- The Eagle is born to combat a trucking mob, which is trying to coerce factory owners to use "Roya" Trucks to ship all of their products.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Last appearance was in SCIENCE COMICS #8.
[A Princess of Ur]
Blast Bennett / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Blast Bennett; Lua (introduction); Alla (introduction); King of Urol (villain, introduction, death)
[The Undersea Tanks]
Navy Jones / comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Bert Whitman (under house name Frank Pensley)
- Pencils
- Bert Whitman
- Inks
- Bert Whitman
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Feature Logo
- Navy Jones Underseas
- Genre
- war; science fiction
- Characters
- Navy Jones; Princess Coral; Captain Nemo; Dictator of Europe (villain, introduction); General Von Rothmann (villain, introduction, death)
- Synopsis
- After having a delicate undersea operation, allowing him to become a waterman, Jones and his companions must find a way to battle a large fleet of underseas Army tanks advancing on the U.S. off the Florio Coast.
- Reprints
-
in Golden-Age Greats Spotlight (AC, 2003 series) #4 ([April] 2009) - in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #98 (2015)
-
- Keywords
- Florio Cliff; naval
Indexer Notes
Last appearance was in Science Comics #8.
Frank Pensley is a by-line used by Fox Publications and is not a real person.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
The Dart -
1.
[The Motor Company Mobsters]
The Dart -
2.
[Science vs. Sorcery]
The Sorceress of Zoom -
3.
Stop Doctor Mortal!
Dr. Mortal -
4.
[The Super-Science Spies]
Dynamo -
5.
[The Rudite Crystals]
Marga the Panther Woman -
6.
The Sword of Marduk
-
7.
[The Coming of the Eagle]
The Eagle -
8.
[A Princess of Ur]
Blast Bennett -
9.
[The Undersea Tanks]
Navy Jones
This issue was modified by, among others
- Henry Andrews
- Nick Caputo
- Craig Delich
- Del Gruber
- Clint Maxwell
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Van Dore
- Len Wolinsky
All portions of the Grand Comics Database™, except where noted otherwise, are
copyrighted by the GCD and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format.