Speed Comics #1

(October 1939)

The Human Dynamo (Table of Contents)

Shock Gibson / comic story / 26 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Maurice Rosenfeld; Bill Scott [as Maurice Scott]

Pencils:

Norman Fallon ?

Inks:

Norman Fallon ?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Shock Gibson [Robert Gibson] (Intro; Origin); Dr. Blitzer (Intro); Baron Von Kampf (Villain; Intro) zombies (Villain; Intro)

The Three Aces (Table of Contents)

Crash, Cork, and the Baron / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Klaus Nordling [as Fred North]

Pencils:

Klaus Nordling

Inks:

Klaus Nordling

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Characters:

Crash (Intro); Cork (Intro); the Baron (Intro)

Indexer Notes

memorable line: "You fellows hang around in the background while I talk big...they're bound to expose themselves!"

An Adventure With a Man-Eating Plant (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Edward Lambert

Pencils:

Bob Powell? (Illustration)

Inks:

Bob Powell? (Illustration)

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Indexer Notes

illos by Powell?

The Man of a Thousand Faces (Table of Contents)

Ted Parrish / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bob Powell [as Bob Stanley]

Pencils:

Bob Powell

Inks:

Bob Powell

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Characters:

Ted Parrish (Intro; Origin); A mad doctor (Villain; Intro)

[The SQUALL Case] (Table of Contents)

Spike Marlin / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

? [as Carl Larson]

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Characters:

Spike Marlin (Intro)

Indexer Notes

Not George Tuska according to Jim Vadeboncouer

[Fire In Children's Haven] (Table of Contents)

Smoke Carter / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Munson Paddock

Inks:

Munson Paddock

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Characters:

Smoke Carter (Intro; a fireman)

[The Coming of Landor] (Table of Contents)

Landor, Maker of Monsters / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Bob Powell

Inks:

Bob Powell

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Characters:

Landor (Villain; Intro); Anthony Torrence (Intro); Maria (Intro)

[Big Nick's Law] (Table of Contents)

Texas Tyler / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Walter Frehm ?

Inks:

Walter Frehm ?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Characters:

Texas Tyler (Intro)

[The Super-Death Invention] (Table of Contents)

Biff Bannon / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Dick Briefer [as Remington Brant]

Pencils:

Dick Briefer

Inks:

Dick Briefer

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Characters:

Biff Bannon (a Marine; Intro)