Clue Comics
#v1#1 [1]
(January 1943)
Hillman,
1943 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1942-11-25
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Hillman Periodicals Inc.
- Printer
- Printed in the United States of America
- Editing
- Ed Cronin (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from 1943 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
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The Boy King and the Giant!
The Boy King / comic story / 14 pages
- Script
- Charles Biro; Bob Wood
- Pencils
- Alan Mandel (signed as Mandel)
- Inks
- Dan Barry (signed as Barry)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- The Boy King [King David] (introduction, origin); The Giant (introduction, a giant robot, origin); King of Swisslakia (introduction, death); Abraham Lincoln (image only); Lord Wellington (image only); George Washington (image only); Richard the Lion-Hearted (image only); David (image only); Goliath (villain, death, image only); Grouse (villain, introduction, death); the Nazis (villains)
Checking the Checker
Nightmare and Sleepy / comic story / 11 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Nightmare [Bob White] (introduction, origin); Sleepy [Terry Wake] (introduction, origin); The Checker [Henricks] (villain, introduction)
[The Origin of Stupid Manny]
Stupid Manny / comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Tony DiPreta ?
- Pencils
- Tony DiPreta (signed)
- Inks
- Tony DiPreta (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Characters
- Stupid Manny [Manny] (Intro, Origin); Prof. Bruno McNasty (Intro); Nazi spies (Villain)
[The Origin of Micro Face]
Micro-Face / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Micro-Face [Tom Woods] (Intro, Origin); Big Boston (Intro, Villain)
Indexer Notes
Micro-Face written without the hyphen this story only.
[no title indexed]
Zippo / comic story / 9 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- He's a blitz on wheels!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Zippo [Joe Blair] (introduction and origin); The Pirate (villain, introduction)
- Reprints
-
in Super Weird Heroes (IDW, 2016 series) #[nn] (November 2016)
-
[Origin of the Boy Rangers]
Jackie Law and the Boy Rangers / comic story / 6 pages
- Characters
- Jackie Law (Intro, Origin); Boy Rangers [Buck (Intro); Corny (Intro); Gorilla (Intro); Froggy]; Dan Law (Intro, Death); The Slick Loan Co. (Intro, Villain)
Murder Before the Footlights
Twilight / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- John Cassone (signed as Cassone)
- Inks
- John Cassone (signed as Cassone)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Twilight [Sgt. Terry Gardner] (Intro, Origin); Snoopy (a parrot) (Intro); Maxim (Intro, Villain); Nada (Intro, Villain); Wilmer (Intro, Death)
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
The Boy King -
1.
The Boy King and the Giant!
The Boy King -
2.
Checking the Checker
Nightmare and Sleepy -
3.
[The Origin of Stupid Manny]
Stupid Manny -
4.
[The Origin of Micro Face]
Micro-Face -
5.
Smoke Rings of Death
-
6.
["He's a blitz on wheels!"]
Zippo -
7.
[Origin of the Boy Rangers]
Jackie Law and the Boy Rangers -
8.
Murder Before the Footlights
Twilight
This issue was modified by, among others
- Keith Chandler
- Steve Coates
- Shad Z. Daly
- Craig Delich
- Mike Nielsen
- Jim Van Dore
- Gary L. Watson (R.I.P.)
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