(January-February 1965)
- Price:
- 0.12 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- eight times a year
- Indicia Publisher:
- Best Syndicated Features, Inc.
- Brand:
- American Comics Group ACG
- Editing:
- Richard E. Hughes
- Format:
- Standard Silver Age U.S.; Full Color: Glossy cover; Newsprint Interior; Saddle-Stitched
Magicman!
Magicman / cover / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Kurt Schaffenberger [as Pete Costanza] (signed)
- Inks:
- Kurt Schaffenberger [as Pete Costanza] (signed)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Magicman
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Magicman (Dark Horse, 2008 series) #[nn] ([December] 2008)
Indexer Notes
According to Schaffenberger in a 1998 letter, many covers at ACG were penciled and inked by him, but signed by Pete Costanza because DC editor Mort Weisinger (for whom Schaffenberger worked on the Superman Family titles at that time) did not want him drawing superhero covers for other companies.
Magicman!
Magicman / comic story / 12 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Richard E. Hughes [as Zev Zimmer]
- Pencils:
- Pete Costanza
- Inks:
- Pete Costanza
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Magicman [Tom Cargill]; Cagliostro (flashback); Senator Loring
- Synopsis:
- Magicman is the immortal son of the wizard Cagliostro. In the present day he joins the Army to fight in Viet Nam as PFC Tom Cargill and decides to use his magical abilities secretly as Magicman.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Hot 'N Cold Heroes (A-Plus Comics, 1990 series) #2 (1990)
- in Magicman (Avalon Communications, 1998 series) #1 (1998)
- in Magicman (Dark Horse, 2008 series) #[nn] ([December] 2008)
How to Stay Healthy!
Herbie / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- Richard E. Hughes
- Pencils:
- Ogden Whitney
- Inks:
- Ogden Whitney
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- humor
- Characters:
- Herbie Popnecker
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Herbie Archives (Dark Horse, 2008 series) #1 (August 2008)
Indexer Notes
Promotional ad.
[no title indexed]
From Your Editor -- to You! / letters page / 2 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Richard Hughes ?
- Letters:
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Letters submitted by Don Markstein; Janet Renner; Susan Newton; Lee Whittlesey; Eugene J. Rule; Juan Ortiz; Mario Pagalocci
Missing: Frederick Forbes!
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Richard E. Hughes
- Pencils:
- Kurt Schaffenberger
- Inks:
- Kurt Schaffenberger
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- occult
- Characters:
- Richard E. Hughes (host)
- Synopsis:
- Banker Frederick Forbes vanished in 1867 with a great amount of the townspeoples' money. Nearly a hundred years later, his great-grandson agrees to undergo hypnosis to solve the mystery, and learns that it was accidental death, not villainy, that caused Forbes to disappear, and the money is finally recovered.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- from Adventures into the Unknown (American Comics Group, 1948 series) #92 (January 1958)
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #233 ([no date])
No Good to the World!
comic story / 8 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Richard E. Hughes [as Zev Zimmer]
- Pencils:
- George Wilhelms
- Inks:
- George Wilhelms
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Synopsis:
- Willie Stover and his pet frog Oswald accidentally foil an invasion from a microscopic world while being held after school for detention.
Editing
Table of Contents
-
1.
Magicman!
Magicman -
2.
How to Stay Healthy!
Herbie -
3.
[no title indexed]
From Your Editor -- to You! -
4.
Missing: Frederick Forbes!
-
5.
No Good to the World!
This issue was most recently modified by:
- Ramon Schenk
- Lou Mazzella
- Dwayne Best
- Gary Henderson
Issues in this series have been indexed by:
- Gene Reed
- Lou Mougin
- Bob Hughes
- Gary Perlman
- Ramon Schenk
- Peter Croome
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