(June 1943)
Fawcett,
1942 Series
- Volume
- 2
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1943-05-19
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Fawcett Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
A Fawcett Magazine
- Editing
- Rod Reed ?
Issue Notes
On sale date from the publication date reported to the U.S. Copyright Office found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1943, New Series, Volume 38, Number 2. Class B periodical. Copyright registration number 590231.
The Mississippi Marauder
Captain Midnight / comic story / 16 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- America's "breadbasket" threatened! When crop after crop in the fertile Mississippi Valley is mysteriously destroyed,
- Genre
- adventure; aviation
- Characters
- Captain Midnight [Captain Jim Albright]
- Reprints
-
in Captain Midnight (L. Miller & Son, 1950 series) #122 ([circa January 1952])
-
The Silent Wings of Destruction
Captain Midnight / comic story / 12.66 pages
- Genre
- adventure; aviation
- Characters
- Captain Midnight [Captain Jim Albright]; Ichabod Mudd [aka Icky]; Mike (defense plant worker, death); President Franklin D. Roosevelt; Johnny Blair (aircraft pilot, cameo); Herr Strudel (villain, death?); Hermann [aka The Electric Eel] (villain, actual eel, death); other un-named Nazis (villains, many die)
- Synopsis
- Captain Midnight investigates the mysterious attacks being made on U.S. defense plants, puzzled that enemy aircraft cannot even be heard! He discovers the cause: a gigantic, aircraft carrier-like mother ship, from which the planes take off!
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Blackout Bomb; Nazi Flying Aircraft Carrier
Indexer Notes
Johnny Blair becomes a regular in the Captain Midnight strip beginning next issue.
Captain Midnight #10, according to the blurb at the end of the story, went on sale June 18th.
The Black Tornado
Captain Midnight / comic story / 12.66 pages
- Genre
- adventure; aviation
- Characters
- Captain Midnight [Captain Jim Albright]; Ichabod Mudd [aka Icky]; Chuck Ramsay [SS-11]; Joyce Ryan; Baron Vindbagg (villain, death?); other un-named Nazis (villains, many die)
- Synopsis
- Captain Albriht finds it odd that devastating tornadoes, that have been striking the Middle West, seem only to occur in towns that have U.S. defense plants! Captured by the evil Vindbagg, he helplessly watches as the criminal uses the Captain's Secret Squadron transmitter to send the Squadron members to a false location in Waterfield......but the good Captain turns the tables on the Nazi fiend.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- low altitude plane; Secret Sqauadron
Indexer Notes
The last 1/3 of page 13 is an illustrated promotion for the Captain Midnight radio show, which features an upper body shot of Midnight and the listing of the radio stations the show is heard on.
The Mechanical Man!
Captain Midnight with Samson / comic story / 9.5 pages
- Genre
- adventure; aviation
- Characters
- Captain Midnight [Captain Jim Albright]; Ichabod Mudd [aka Icky]; Joyce Ryan; Chuck Ramsay [SS-11); Samson [aka The Man of Steel] (robot pilot, introduction); von Vool (villain, Nazi spy); Ludwig (villain, Nazi spy)
- Synopsis
- Captain Albright, who has ust invented a robot pilot named Samson, is preparing to fly the robot to Washington D.C., when several Nazi spies fly off with what they think is the robot. Instead it's actually Icky, who plays robot to fool the Nazis.
- Reprints
- in Captain Midnight (L. Miller & Son, 1950 series) #122 ([circa January 1952])
-
in Captain Midnight Archives (Dark Horse, 2013 series) #1 - Captain Midnight Battles the Nazis (December 2013)
-
- Keywords
- pocket transmitter
Indexer Notes
The final 1/3 of page 10 is an illustrated promotional advertisement for Captain Marvel's E-Z Code Finder, featuiring an upper body shot of Captain Marvel, plus a full-sized representation of the code finder, which pictures head views of Bulletman, Captain Midnight, Captain Marvel Jr., Spy Smasher, and a 3/4 length view of Captain Marvel. Captain Marvel gives a code message as well.
Editing
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Table of Contents
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[no title indexed]
Captain Midnight -
1.
On Guard, Captain Midnight!
Captain Midnight -
2.
The Mississippi Marauder
Captain Midnight -
3.
Bomber's Vengeance
Red Skye -
4.
The Silent Wings of Destruction
Captain Midnight -
5.
The Black Tornado
Captain Midnight -
6.
The Personality Kid
Little Sneezer -
7.
The Mechanical Man!
Captain Midnight with Samson
This issue was modified by, among others
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Peter Croome
- Craig Delich
- Stephen Mitchell
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Mike Nielsen
- Len Wolinsky
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