Fantastic Adventures #1

(July 1987)

"Skool" Yardley...Our Man on the Corner (Table of Contents: 1)

"Skool" Yardley / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Jerry De Fuccio (signed as DeFuccio)

Pencils

Bob Clarke (signed as Clarke)

Inks

Bob Clarke (signed as Clarke)

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Hi Otis! What do you have in the bag?

Genre

humor

Indexer Notes

This is the inside front cover.

The Killers from Outer Space (Table of Contents: 2)

Buster Crabbe / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

George Tuska (credited) (signed as George Tuska)

Inks

George Tuska (credited) (signed as George Tuska)

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

≡Gasp!≡ What is it?

Genre

science fiction

Indexer Notes

A previously unpublished Buster Crabbe story circa 1955.

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Bob and Swab / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

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Fantomah / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Fletcher Hanks (signed as Barclay Flagg)

Pencils

Fletcher Hanks (signed as Barclay Flagg)

Inks

Fletcher Hanks (signed as Barclay Flagg)

Letters

Fletcher Hanks (signed as Barclay Flagg)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Fantomah, the most remarkable woman ever known, has such strange powers and insight, that she foresees all that is to happen in connection with jungle life...

Genre

horror-suspense; jungle

Characters

Fantomah; The Doctor (villain, introduction, death); Mac (villain, introduction, death); group of four Gorgon Gorillas (villains, restored to normal)

Synopsis

Fantomah stops a mad scientist who has taken control of the gorillas in the jungle, using a serum to make them super-intelligent. As punishment, she allows the gorillas to rip him to pieces, and then she restores them to normal intelligence.

Reprints

• from Jungle Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #4 (April 1940)

Keywords

airplanes; gorillas; laboratories; safaris

Indexer Notes

The cover illustration and title of the 2009 Fantagraphics book "You Shall Die By Your Own Evil Creation!" come from the last page of this story.

The authors of the reprint, who own the original art for this story, surmise from close examination of Fantomah's face on the splash page that "the editor probably had the face of Fantomah whited out and prettified from Fletcher Hanks' original rendering".

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Spencer Spook / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Devil of the Deep (Table of Contents: 6)

Dave Dean / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script

Fred Guardineer (signed) (adaptation); Norman Daniels (original story)

Pencils

Fred Guardineer (signed)

Inks

Fred Guardineer (signed)

Letters

Fred Guardineer (signed)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Dave Dean, professional diver and adventurer, dares the perils of the South Pacific seas in search of pearls...

Genre

adventure

Reprints

• in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #44 ([January 2004])

Indexer Notes

A retelling/condensation of the Dan Dean story from Funny Pages (Ultem, 1937 Series) #v2#1 (September 1937). Done as a private commission for a fan in 1975 and published for the first time here.

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Laff These Off! / cartoon / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Hello, Scarly!

Genre

humor

Reprints

• from ?

Indexer Notes

Seven single-panel cartoons about criminals.

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On Top of Ol'lympos / promo (ad from the publisher) / 2 pages (report information)

Seeds of Death (Table of Contents: 9)

Buster Crabbe / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio (credited as Rocco Mastroserio)

Inks

Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio (credited as Rocco Mastroserio)

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Soaring high above the mysterious Atlas Mountains of North Africa, Buster Crabbe piloted Professor Harvey Meade[...]

Genre

adventure

Indexer Notes

A previously unpublished Buster Crabbe story circa 1955.

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Big Edsel Band / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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Cosmic Book / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)