International Comics #1

(Spring 1947)

Manhattan's Files (Table of Contents)

Van Manhattan / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Gardner F. Fox?

Pencils:

Howard Purcell (signed as HP on airplane fusilage)

Inks:

Howard Purcell (signed as HP on airplane fusilage)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

crime

Characters:

Van Manhattan (I); Miss Gale; Coombs; Miss Ellen; Johnny Dukes (villain, D).

Synopsis:

The fact that Van's evidence put away Public Enemy #1, Johnny Dukes, is of little avail when Dukes escapes from prison and hijacks an airplane that Manhattan is on heading for Seattle.

Indexer Notes

Art revision from Lee Bachelor? to Purcell, other info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 1-16-09.

[Introducing Igor] (Table of Contents)

Igor the Archer / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Gardner F. Fox

Pencils:

Sheldon Moldoff

Inks:

Sheldon Moldoff

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

period

Characters:

Igor the Archer (I); Count Rostov; Czar (villain).

Synopsis:

Igor is captured by the evil tyrant Czar, who condemns him to the scaffold.

Indexer Notes

Art revision from Kurt Schaffenberger to Moldoff, some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 1-16-09.

[Introducing Juan Meatbal] (Table of Contents)

Juan Meatbal / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Gardner F. Fox?

Pencils:

Lee Ames

Inks:

Burt Frohmen

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Juan Meatbal (I).

Synopsis:

When the inhabitants of Sawtuva-Boorda in Mexico learn that there are no fish available for their big Feast of the Fish, Juan steps up and makes a secret pact with a visiting pelican which allows the feast to go on as scheduled.

Indexer Notes

Synopsis added by Craig Delich 1-16-09.

Sound Suspicion (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

[That's Madelon] (Table of Contents)

Madelon / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Gardner F. Fox?

Pencils:

Clem Weisbecker

Inks:

Clem Weisbecker

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Madelon Durand (I); The Great Durand (her father, D); Mr. Benet; Bobo King of the Apaches (D); von Schlager (villain).

Synopsis:

After seeing her father gunned down by the Gestapo, Madelon takes her father's place in the French Underground to battle against the Nazi tyranny. But when the war ends, she decides to use her talents as a photographer and runs down a wanted Nazi felon from the war era.

Indexer Notes

The last panel of the story is titled "Madelon's Manual: Postive Advice for Better Negatives", and gives readers tips on how to properly focus their cameras during early mornings and later afternoons. Art revision from Sheldon Moldoff? to Phil Bard?, some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 1-16-09.

Originally credited "Sheldon Moldoff?", but this must be Weisbecker, long faces with angular jaws and chin, and wide open eyes. Compare with his many Shield stories in Pep Comics.

Young George Washington (Table of Contents)

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Allen Simon

Inks:

Allen Simon

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

fact

Characters:

George Washington

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• from Picture Stories from American History (EC, 1945 series) #2