(November 1950)
Avon,
1950 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- Quarterly
- On-sale Date
- 1950-08-10
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Avon Periodicals Inc.
- Brand
-
An Avon Publication
- Editing
- Sol Cohen
Issue Notes
On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals 1952, page 236
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
-
in Fremde Welten (ilovecomics, 2017 series) #10 -
in Strange Worlds (Superior, 1951 series) #1 (February 1951) -
in Pre-Code Classics: Strange Worlds (PS Artbooks, 2014 series) #1 (April 2014) -
in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #191 - Kenton of the Star Patrol ([March] 2017)
-
The Corsairs from the Coalsack!
Kenton of the Star Patrol / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The atomic bombs that fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Captain Dave Kenton of the Star Patrol; Maeve Malloy; Captain Balda
- Reprints
- in Fremde Welten (ilovecomics, 2017 series) #10
-
in Golden Comics (Univers Comics, 2009 series) #3 - in Out of This World Adventures (Avon, 1950 series) #2 (December 1950)
- in Out of This World (Thorpe & Porter, 1951 series) (1951)
- in America's Greatest Comics (AC, 2002 series) #13
- in The Art of Joe Kubert (Fantagraphics, 2011 series) (2011)
- in Pre-Code Classics: Strange Worlds (PS Artbooks, 2014 series) #1 (April 2014)
-
Indexer Notes
Script and pencils credits in Out of This World Adventures #2 (December 1950). Earlier indexer credited the script to Gardner Fox. Inks credit from Jim Vadeboncoeur.
Keith Chandler : Some of the inking is clearly by Kubert himself.
Dead Man's Tale
comic story / 11 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It is proper to begin...
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Myron Morgan; The Tramp; Fremi
- Reprints
- from Eerie Comics (Avon, 1947 series) #1 (January 1947)
- in Fremde Welten (ilovecomics, 2017 series) #10
- in Out of This World Adventures (Avon, 1950 series) #2 (December 1950)
- in Out of This World (Thorpe & Porter, 1951 series) (1951)
-
Indexer Notes
Art credits from Jim Vadeboncouer. Story credited to "E. J. Bellin" and "A. H. Johnston" in Out of This World Adventures #2 (December 1950). Bellin is a known pseudonym of Henry Kuttner.
War of the Marsh-Men
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- Malcolm White (credited as W. Malcolm White)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- New Chicago had been destroyed overnight!
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Verna Jensen; Captain Birch; Lieutenant Williams
- Reprints
- in Out of This World Adventures (Avon, 1950 series) #2 (December 1950)
- in Out of This World (Thorpe & Porter, 1951 series) (1951)
-
The Spider God of Akka!
Crom the Barbarian / comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- Gardner Fox
- Pencils
- John Giunta (signed as Jay Gee)
- Inks
- John Giunta (signed as Jay Gee)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- This is a tale of the world's beginnings...
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Crom the Barbarian; Rou; Tanit; Lalla; Bokris
- Synopsis
- Crom kills a giant spider and returns Tanit to Ophir.
- Reprints
- in Fremde Welten (ilovecomics, 2017 series) #10
- in Out of This World Adventures (Avon, 1950 series) #2 (December 1950)
- in Out of This World (Thorpe & Porter, 1951 series) (1951)
- in Golden Legends (Univers Comics, 2009 series) #2 - Crom le barbare (3e trimestre 2009)
- in Lurid Little Nightmare Makers (Boardman Books, 2014 series) #2 ([May] 2014)
- in Sham Comics (Source Point Press, 2022 series) #1 ([April] 2022)
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- Keywords
- barbarians; spider
Indexer Notes
Writer and artist credited in Out of This World Adventures #2 (December 1950).
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
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1.
The Corsairs from the Coalsack!
Kenton of the Star Patrol -
2.
Dead Man's Tale
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3.
War of the Marsh-Men
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4.
The Spider God of Akka!
Crom the Barbarian
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- Keith Chandler
- Pat Conolly
- Jochen G.
- Michael Hoskin
- Edgar Loftin
- James Ludwig
- Mike Nielsen
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