Camera Comics
#v2#1 (7)
(Winter 1946)
U. S. Camera,
1944 Series
- Volume
- 2
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- quarterly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- U. S. Camera Publishing Corporation
- Brand
- A U. S. Camera Publication
- Editing
- ?
[no title indexed]
Jim Lane, Insurance Investigator / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Jim Lane... becomes tangled up with a vicious ring of insurance swindlers...
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Jim Lane (insurance investigator)
- Synopsis
- Jim Lane becomes tangled up with a ring of insurance swindlers aboard a freighter that carries a cargo of empty oil drums and killers.
Indexer Notes
Art ID from scan at DCM by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
Frederick Scott-Archer
comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- biography; history
- Characters
- Frederick Scott-Archer (mid-19th century discoverer of developing process)
Indexer Notes
Art ID from scan at DCM by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
[no title indexed]
Art Fenton / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It's hard to believe that there's any connection between one missing camera study...
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Art Fenton (investigator for the Ephraim Tuttle detective agency)
[no title indexed]
activity / 16 pages
Indexer Notes
The central 16 pages of this issue are a mini rotogravure photography magazine -- articles & photos... no artwork
[no title indexed]
Linda Lens / comic story / 7 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Pots of gold at the end of the ordinary news photgrapher's rainbow...
- Characters
- Linda Lens (star news photographer); Charlie Brandt (city editor of the Daily Journal); Joe Jackson (crooked DA); Shutter Sherman (blackmailer)
- Synopsis
- A photographer is killed when he will collect blackmail money from the DA.
Indexer Notes
Art ID from scan at DCM by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. with Padenaude as an uncertain inker.
[no title indexed]
The Grey Comet / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- 16mm movie cameras take some fine pictures and have many uses...
- Characters
- The Grey Comet (newsreel cameraman); Greg Davis (actor); Eddie Mitchell (blackmailer)
- Synopsis
- A movie actor is a victim of a blackmailer and is saved from comitting suicide by the Gray Comet, and they set a trap for the blackmailer.
Indexer Notes
Art ID from scan at DCM by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. and is confirmed by work by him in Target Comics and Blue Circle Comics #2.
[no title indexed]
Kid Click / comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Bob sled racing is a great thrill -- but Kid Click does it the hard way
- Characters
- Kid Click (now working for The Daily Planet)
- Synopsis
- Kid Click is out to get good shots of the bob-sled race.
Indexer Notes
Art ID from scan at DCM by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Linda Lens -
1.
["Jim Lane... becomes tangled up with a vicious ring of insurance swindlers..."]
Jim Lane, Insurance Investigator -
2.
Frederick Scott-Archer
-
3.
["It's hard to believe that there's any connection between one missing camera study..."]
Art Fenton -
4.
[no title indexed]
-
5.
["Pots of gold at the end of the ordinary news photgrapher's rainbow..."]
Linda Lens -
6.
["16mm movie cameras take some fine pictures and have many uses..."]
The Grey Comet -
7.
["Bob sled racing is a great thrill -- but Kid Click does it the hard way"]
Kid Click
This issue was modified by, among others
- Steinar Ådland
- Donald Dale Milne
- Tony R. Rose
- Tim Tjarks
- Jim Van Dore
- Len Wolinsky
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