Big Boy
#40
(January 1960)
Arédit-Artima,
1956 Series
Masques défendus
comic story / 8.67 pages
- Genre
- fantasy (fantasy-supernatural)
- Characters
- Martin; Parker; Ellis; Jose
- Synopsis
- In South America Martin buys three fiesta masks from a street hawker. Jose tells Martin that his mask is the Mask of Mastery and there were two more masks, of Fear and Doom, made at the same time. Martin dons his mask and finds he can control animals. He sees Parker wearing the Mask of Fear and surrounded by fearful demons. He trips Parker up and the mask falls off and then he stamps it to pieces. They then see a train accident and a cart on fire caused by Ellis wearing the Mask of Doom. Martin dons his mask and orders animals to remove the other mask. Later all masks are destroyed.
- Reprints
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from My Greatest Adventure (DC, 1955 series) #28 (February 1959)
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Indexer Notes
Titre original: "We wore the forbidden masks"
J'eus adopté un garçon martien
comic story / 6 pages
- Reprints
- from Tales of the Unexpected (DC, 1956 series) #28 (August 1958)
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Indexer Notes
Titre original: "I adopted a martian boy"
Flèche Rapide au pied du mur
Green Arrow & Speedy / comic story / 5.67 pages
- Reprints
- from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #254 (November 1958)
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Indexer Notes
Titre original: "The Green Arrow's Last Stand"
L'Homme qui captura les ombres
comic story / 5.67 pages
- Reprints
- from House of Secrets (DC, 1956 series) #15 (December 1958)
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Indexer Notes
Titre original: "The man who captured shadows"
Super commerçant de l'espace
comic story / 6 pages
- Reprints
- from Tales of the Unexpected (DC, 1956 series) #28 (August 1958)
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Indexer Notes
Titre original: "The super space salesman"
Menace microscopique
comic story / 7.67 pages
- Genre
- science-fiction (science fiction)
- Characters
- Professor Elliott Saunders; Marcus Drake; Tom (caretaker); newspaper reporter
- Synopsis
- Saunders and Drake find a microscopic animal that has been destroying their mineral specimens. They try to kill it and after many attempts leave it overnight under a positive ion beam. Next morning the lab is destroyed and footsteps lead through a hole in the wall. They follow the trail to a town under construction. The town caretaker escapes and warns them but then a ray from the creature melts their Jeep. Bullets also melt but then they notice that the windscreen of the jeep hasn't melted. They use a portable negative ion generator behind glass to shrink and destroy the creature.
- Reprints
- from My Greatest Adventure (DC, 1955 series) #28 (February 1959)
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Indexer Notes
Titre original: "We battled the microscopique menace"
Créatures camouflées
comic story / 7.67 pages
- Genre
- science-fiction (science fiction)
- Characters
- Doctor Munston; Special Agent Blake
- Synopsis
- Munston cannot find out who is stealing from the missile testing base so calls in help. Blake arrives but finds nothing wrong with security and so sets up cameras to trap the thief. The film shows furniture coming to life and stealing items. They approach a couch which fights and almost defeats them until it is stunned when it falls onto a generator. Outside more creatures come to life and the captured creature shrinks out of sight. The creatures are followed to a crevice caused by a recent earthquake. They send a signal down the crevice which blows up some explosive in a stolen warhead.
- Reprints
- from My Greatest Adventure (DC, 1955 series) #28 (February 1959)
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Indexer Notes
Titre original: "I stalked the camouflage creatures"
Prestidigitateur criminel
J'onn J'onzz / comic story / 5.67 pages
- Reprints
- from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #263 (January 1959)
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Indexer Notes
Titre original: "The crime conjurer"
Les Prisonniers de la cité secrète
comic story / 7.67 pages
- Reprints
- from House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #83 (February 1959)
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Indexer Notes
Titre original: "Prisoners of the secret city"
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[Masques défendus]
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1.
Masques défendus
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2.
J'eus adopté un garçon martien
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3.
Flèche Rapide au pied du mur
Green Arrow & Speedy -
4.
L'Homme qui captura les ombres
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5.
Super commerçant de l'espace
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6.
Menace microscopique
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7.
Créatures camouflées
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8.
Prestidigitateur criminel
J'onn J'onzz -
9.
Les Prisonniers de la cité secrète
This issue was modified by, among others
- Roger Brochu
- Peter Croome
- Gregory Fischer
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Paul Robinson
- Per Sandell
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