([May 2003])
- Volume:
- ?
- Price:
- 6.95 USD
- Pages:
- 52
- Indicia frequency:
- ?
- Indicia Publisher:
- ?
- Brand:
- AC Comics
- Editing:
- Bill Black (reprint editor); Mark Heike (associate reprint editor)
- Format:
- Color Covers, Black & White Interiors; Standard Modern Age US; Saddle-Stitched; Ongoing
[no title indexed]
Space Detective / cover / 1 page
Credits
- Pencils:
- Wally Wood [as Wallace Wood]
- Inks:
- Wally Wood [as Wallace Wood]
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Editing:
- Sol Cohen (original cover editor)
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Space Detective; Teena
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- from Space Detective (Avon, 1951 series) #2 (November 1951)
Map of Doom.
comic story / 10 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Joe Kubert (signed)
- Inks:
- Joe Kubert (signed)
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- horror
- Characters:
- Beverly; her husband Carl
- Synopsis:
- Down through the ages, the leather-clad book lay dormant and unmoving... never hinting of the terror that lives in its yellowing pages! When prying hands unclasped the covers, catastrophe struck with a force never before imagined! Slowly the book of evil comes open!... Do not turn away -- look, my friend... look deeply into the map of doom. [per intro]
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- from Weird Horrors (St. John, 1952 series) #9 (October 1953)
Captain Science and the Insidious Doctor Khartoum
Captain Science / comic story / 8 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Joe Orlando (signed); Wally Wood (signed)
- Inks:
- Joe Orlando (signed); Wally Wood (signed)
- Letters:
- typeset
- Editing:
- Adolphe Barreaux (original editor)
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Captain Science; Doctor Khartoum; Klameth; Luana; Rip
- Synopsis:
- From the long forgotten temple of Klameth, hidden deep in the age-old fortress city of Btuh, rose a force that threatened to crush our modern civilization. Journeying backward in time, Captain Science, master of star-born knowledge and Rip, his young assistant, find a new way to conquer a power more dangerous than the atom bomb, and defeat the evil genius who would set it free, "The Insidious Doctor Khartoum"... [per intro]
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- from Captain Science (Youthful, 1950 series) #4 (June 1951)
["Jason Kirby, famous Hollywood star, who last year..."]
Jane Martin / comic story / 6 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ? [as F.E. Lincoln]
- Pencils:
- George Evans (signed)
- Inks:
- George Evans (signed)
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- detective
- Characters:
- Dr. John Range; Jane Martin; Jason Kirby; Mike; Olan Zenba
- Synopsis:
- Jason Kirby, famous Hollywood star who last year announced his retirement from the silver screen, has secretly purchased the movie rights to the best-selling novel "Consider the Beast". Take it from me, folks, the profile is trying for a comeback - and my bet is that he'll make it! [per intro]
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- from Wings Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #108 (August 1949) [in black and white]
Adrift in Space
Captain Crewes / comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Captain Crewes; General Larson (fb)
- Synopsis:
- Loneliness for Earth, fear and restlessness have plagued all space ship commanders ever since earthlings first embarked upon extensive space patrols! And sometimes the pressure erupts into the gravest problem of any commander... mutiny! [per intro]
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- from Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds (Charlton, 1956 series) #8 (June 1958)
Wheel of Fortune
Desert Eagle / comic story / 6 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- John Buscema
- Inks:
- John Buscema
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- western
- Characters:
- Desert Eagle; Jack Burne; Miss Gray; her mother Mrs. Gray
- Synopsis:
- A lonely saddletramp roams the southwest, finding misfortune one day and fortune the next. Known to friend and foe as Desert Eagle, he follows the torturous trails where treachery lurks in many guises... and the whims of fate spur men to deeds of violence! [per intro]
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- from The Hawk 3-D (St. John, 1953 series) #v1#1 (November 1953)
Torchy [The Man from Saturn Gig]
Torchy / comic story / 6 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Bill Ward
- Pencils:
- Bill Ward
- Inks:
- Bill Ward
- Letters:
- ?
- Editing:
- George Brenner (original editor)
Content Information
- Genre:
- humor
- Characters:
- Torchy Todd
- Synopsis:
- Torchy is kidnapped by aliens from Saturn who turn out to be actors looking for publicity.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- from Modern Comics (Quality Comics, 1945 series) #77 (September 1948)
The House That Tried To Kill Me!
comic story / 6 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Mort Meskin
- Inks:
- Mort Meskin
- Letters:
- ?
- Editing:
- Joe Simon; Jack Kirby (original editors)
Content Information
- Genre:
- horror
- Characters:
- Willy Brommer; his wife Stella; his uncle Seth Brommer (in a portrait)
- Synopsis:
- I've had too many accidents in this cursed place! And they weren't planned by living men! I tell you, it's -- the house that tried to kill me! [per intro]
- Reprints:
- from Black Magic (Prize, 1950 series) #v2#2 [8] (December 1951-January 1952)
- from Black Magic (Prize, 1950 series) #v2 #2 [8] (December 1951-January 1952).
Editing
Table of Contents
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1.
Map of Doom.
-
2.
Captain Science and the Insidious Doctor Khartoum
Captain Science -
3.
["Jason Kirby, famous Hollywood star, who last year..."]
Jane Martin -
4.
Adrift in Space
Captain Crewes -
5.
Wheel of Fortune
Desert Eagle -
6.
Torchy [The Man from Saturn Gig]
Torchy -
7.
The House That Tried To Kill Me!
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- Max Capp
- Lou Mougin
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