(May 1959)
DC,
1955 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1959-03-10
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- National Comics Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Superman DC National Comics
- Editing
- Jack Schiff (editor); Murray Boltinoff (associate editor); George Kashdan (associate editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from copyright registration. Copy with date stamp of March 12 reported.
We Found the Evolution Man!
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
-
in Big Boy (Arédit-Artima, 1956 series) #42 (March 1960)
-
I Was a Modern Hercules
comic story / 7.67 pages
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Perry; Bonnie; Professor Andrews (alias Lastro)
- Synopsis
- When a man needs a costume for a masquerade party but all the shops are closed, he finds a lion skin in an antique shop to use as a Hercules costume. But what he doesn't know is that the lion skin really did belong to Hercules, and that it grants the demi-god's strength to whoever wears it.
- Reprints
-
in Five-Score Comic Monthly (K. G. Murray, 1958 series) #18 ([October 1959]) -
in Mystery in Space (Thorpe & Porter, 1958 ? series) #13 ([circa 1960]) - in Big Boy (Arédit-Artima, 1956 series) #42 (March 1960)
- in Big Boss (Arédit-Artima, 1970 series) #24 (1975) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]]
-
- Keywords
- Antique Shops; Hercules; Masquerade Balls
[no title indexed]
Tootsie Roll / advertisement / 0.33 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- A great circus clown they call Andy...
The Man Who Conquered Time!
Rip Hunter... Time Master / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- Genre
- science fiction
Indexer Notes
House ad for Showcase #20.
[no title indexed]
On the Planet Og / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Pencils
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Inks
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Marvelous Disguise!
- Genre
- humor; science fiction
I Was a Test Pilot in Outer Space
comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Colin; Laird Drews
- Synopsis
- Colin was Earth's top test pilot, checking out special purpose ships, until the day it appeared that he and his partner had turned in a false report. Unable to find work again on Earth, he ends up testing ships for an alien race.
- Reprints
- in Five-Score Comic Monthly (K. G. Murray, 1958 series) #18 ([October 1959])
- in Mystery in Space (Thorpe & Porter, 1958 ? series) #13 ([circa 1960])
- in Big Boy (Arédit-Artima, 1956 series) #42 (March 1960)
- in Big Boss (Arédit-Artima, 1970 series) #25 (1975) [N&B [B&W]]
-
[no title indexed]
Quick Quiz / comic story / 0.67 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Who discovered iron in what is now United States territory?
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Reprints
-
from Superman (DC, 1939 series) #87 (February 1954) - in Mystery in Space (Thorpe & Porter, 1958 ? series) #13 ([circa 1960])
-
[no title indexed]
Tootsie Roll Pop / advertisement / 0.33 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I'm a pole vaulting champ named O'Dwyer...
Fantastic! Mysterious!
Tomahawk / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page
- Genre
- western-frontier
Indexer Notes
House ad for Tomahawk #62.
[no title indexed]
Picture Math / activity / 0.5 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It's a good place for water!
I Became a Captive Animal
text story / 1 page
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- in Mystery in Space (Thorpe & Porter, 1958 ? series) #13 ([circa 1960])
-
We Found the Evolution Man
comic story / 7.67 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Mason; Ted Riker; Rocky
- Synopsis
- After two anthropologists bring an Amazonian caveman back to the states, he begins to progress at a rapid rate until his intelligence and appearance jump beyond where modern-day man is on the evolutionary path.
- Reprints
- in Five-Score Comic Monthly (K. G. Murray, 1958 series) #16 ([August 1959])
- in Mystery in Space (Thorpe & Porter, 1958 ? series) #13 ([circa 1960])
- in Big Boy (Arédit-Artima, 1956 series) #42 (March 1960)
- in Big Boss (Arédit-Artima, 1970 series) #24 (1975) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]]
-
- Keywords
- caveman
[no title indexed]
Tootsie Roll Fudge / advertisement / 0.33 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- A young baseball player named Paul...
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
We Found the Evolution Man!
-
1.
[no title indexed]
Wilson Chemical Co. -
2.
I Was a Modern Hercules
-
3.
["A great circus clown they call Andy..."]
Tootsie Roll -
4.
The Man Who Conquered Time!
Rip Hunter... Time Master -
5.
Do You Make Life Hard for Yourself?
-
6.
["Marvelous Disguise!"]
On the Planet Og -
7.
I Was a Test Pilot in Outer Space
-
8.
["Who discovered iron in what is now United States territory?"]
Quick Quiz -
9.
["I'm a pole vaulting champ named O'Dwyer..."]
Tootsie Roll Pop -
10.
Fantastic! Mysterious!
Tomahawk -
11.
["It's a good place for water!"]
Picture Math -
12.
I Became a Captive Animal
-
13.
We Found the Evolution Man
-
14.
["A young baseball player named Paul..."]
Tootsie Roll Fudge -
15.
[no title indexed]
Garcelon Stamp Co. -
16.
[no title indexed]
Stephens Credit Sales -
17.
[no title indexed]
Joe Weider -
18.
[no title indexed]
Junior Sales Club of America
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Chris Boyko
- Nick Caputo
- Peter Croome
- Gregory Fischer
- Tristan Lapoussière
- Mark Muller
- Gene Reed (R.I.P.)
- Daniel Thingvold
- Jim Van Dore
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