Captain Flight Comics #11

(February-March 1947)

[Day He Faced the Octopus] (Table of Contents: 1)

Torpedo Man / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Rudy Palais (signed)

Inks

Rudy Palais (signed)

Colors

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

All legends since the beginning of time have had tales of sea monsters!

Genre

adventure

Characters

Torpedoman [Don Wallace]; Salvador; Oscar (giant rubber octopus); Tripset (villain); Mr. Fowler (villain)

Synopsis

Torpedoman is notified by Salvador that a giant creature lurks beneath the ocean, so he decides to scope it out. Sure enough, he faces the biggest octopus he has ever seen. Suddenly he is attacked and overcome by a group of divers and is taken to their boss, Mr. Fowler. Escaping, Torpedoman, suspicious of the octopus, heads back down to confront it, and discovers it is made of rubber and was being used to scare off unwanted people from discovering a gang's illegal underwater oil-drilling operation.

Reprints

• in Blue Bolt (Star Publications, 1949 series) #112 (February 1952)
• in Ghostly Weird Stories (Star Publications, 1953 series) #124 (September 1954)

Keywords

California; Corsair (a ship)

Indexer Notes

Story title and sequence from Richard Starr on 22 September 2004.

Monstrous ..Mutants.. (Table of Contents: 2)

Red Rocket / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

George Appel (signed as Geo. H. Appel)

Inks

George Appel (signed as Geo. H. Appel)

Colors

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Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Of all the fiendish things that have ever plagued the war-torn earth, never has there been so diabolical a plot against mankind as the one that Rod Page ran across when he went to a....nursery....

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Red Rocket [Rod Page]; Chuck; Hurr (Martian friend of the Red Rocket, death);

Synopsis

Rod is informed that babies are being switched for others in hospitals all over the world and wonders if it has anything to do with his friend, Chuck, and his memory being blanked out, and the planet Mars, which Chuck has just visited. He discovers the mutant minorities on the planet have deemed themselves the majority and seek to make all Martians and humans into mutants like themselves.

Reprints

• in Blue Bolt (Star Publications, 1949 series) #111 (November 1951) [Original title: "The Monstrous Mutants"]
• in Spook (Star Publications, 1953 series) #28 (April 1954) [retitled: "The Monstrous Madman"]
which is reprinted
• in Startling Terror Tales (Arnold Book Company, 1954 series) #1 (1954)
• in Strange Mysteries (I. W. Publishing; Super Comics, 1958 series) #9 (1958)
• in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #102 (2016)

Indexer Notes

Last appearance.

Story title and sequence from Richard Starr on 22 September 2004. Signed at bottom of main panel on first page.

Story takes place February 17, 2046.

[Blue Flame Meets S. Aitan] (Table of Contents: 3)

The Blue Flame / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Zoltan Szenics (signed as Sz)

Inks

Zoltan Szenics (signed as Sz)

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In all the titanic turmoils that the Blue Flame has had in his battles to give crime the hot foot, he never thought the day would come when he'd meet a man like S. Aiten...

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Blue Flame (first appearance); Flaherty; S. Aiten

Synopsis

The Blue Flame foils S. Aiten's jewelry heist.

Reprints

• in Étranges Aventures (Organic Comix, 2013 series) #5 (été 2021)
• in The Blue Flame (Thrilling Nostalgia, 2021 series) #1 (December 2021)

Indexer Notes

Story title and sequence from Richard Starr on 22 September 2004.

The Story behind the Cover (Table of Contents: 4)

Captain Flight / text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

L. B. Cole (illustration)

Inks

L. B. Cole (illustration)

Colors

L. B. Cole

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

It was the greatest discovery of the century.

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Captain Flight; Professor Burdick; Dr. Bourgo

Synopsis

Captain Flight leads a team of scientists to explore a newly discovered planet.

Mummy's Mummy (Table of Contents: 5)

Black Cobra and the Cobra Kid / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Leo Morey

Inks

Leo Morey

Colors

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Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Black Cobra [Jim Hornsby]; The Cobra Kid [Bob Hornsby]; District Attorney Hornsby (Jim and Bob's father); Mr. Abernathy (museum director); two unnamed crooks (villains)

Synopsis

Cobra and the Kid prevent a museum robbery of a mummy case containing a fortune in uncut gems.

Reprints

• in Super Weird Heroes (IDW, 2016 series) #[nn] (November 2016)

Keywords

ancient Egypt; mummies; museums; sarcophagi

Indexer Notes

Next appearance in Black Cobra (Farrell, 1954 series) #1.

Problem with Duke (Table of Contents: 6)

Dan and Dee / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

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Hi diddle diddle...

Genre

humor

Characters

Dan; Dee; Duke Shaw

Synopsis

Dan and Dee are led on a wild goose chase as they try to find their missing ward.

Under the Base of the Statue of Liberty (Table of Contents: 7)

Torpedo Man / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Rudy Palais (signed)

Inks

Rudy Palais (signed)

Colors

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Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Torpedoman's most secret retreat is threatened when he investigates the strange hideaway, where crime takes a holiday.

Genre

adventure

Characters

Torpedoman [Don Wallace]; Highpockets (villain)

Synopsis

Torpedoman discovers a hidden criminal lair.