Startling Comics
#45
(May 1947)
Pines,
1940 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- every other month
- On-sale Date
- 1947-03-04
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Better Publications Inc.
- Editing
- Ned Pines (editor)
Issue Notes
The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Vol. 1, Part 2, Nos. 1&2, Periodicals, 1946-1947.
Startling Headliners in This Issue
Fighting Yank; Tygra; Jefferson Jones; Zippie; Lance Lewis; Air-Minded Rollo / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Job Number
- CC-1179
Indexer Notes
Preview page for this issue.
[no title indexed]
Lance Lewis / comic story / 11 pages
- Job Number
- CC-348
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Forced to flee Mercury...
- Genre
- science fiction
Tygra of the Flame People
Tygra / comic story / 11 pages
- Genre
- jungle
- Characters
- Kolango; Tygra [Lynn Thomas](Intro, Origin); Dr. Thomas; Professor Terry Wilton
- Synopsis
- After crashing her plane on the way back from London, Lynn accidentally drinks the entire supply of Autorene intended to stave off an epidemic. A lion-worshiping tribe sees her defeat a lion and makes her their ruler.
[no title indexed]
Airminded Rolo / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Al Hartley (signed)
- Pencils
- Al Hartley (signed)
- Inks
- Al Hartley (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- CC-924
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Ah, another plane.
- Genre
- aviation
[no title indexed]
Fighting Yank / comic story / 8 pages
- Job Number
- CC-1029
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- What amazing force is wielded by an Indian talisman...
- Genre
- superhero
Norwegian Boy
text story / 1 page
- Script
- William McClellan (under house name William B. McClellan)
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
Mr. "Teen Age"
Jefferson Jones / comic story / 11 pages
Indexer Notes
Artist previously identified as Hal Sherman.
[no title indexed]
Zippie / comic story / 2 pages
- Script
- Al Hartley (signed)
- Pencils
- Al Hartley (signed)
- Inks
- Al Hartley (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- CC-1111
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Zippie brought you home late tonight...
- Characters
- Zippie (Intro)
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Lance Lewis -
1.
Startling Headliners in This Issue
Fighting Yank; Tygra; Jefferson Jones; Zippie; Lance Lewis; Air-Minded Rollo -
2.
["Forced to flee Mercury..."]
Lance Lewis -
3.
The Phantom Posse
-
4.
Tygra of the Flame People
Tygra -
5.
["Ah, another plane."]
Airminded Rolo -
6.
["What amazing force is wielded by an Indian talisman..."]
Fighting Yank -
7.
Norwegian Boy
-
8.
Gorilla Gossip
True Animal Lore -
9.
Mr. "Teen Age"
Jefferson Jones -
10.
Daily Good Turn
-
11.
["Zippie brought you home late tonight..."]
Zippie
This issue was modified by, among others
- Darci
- Katie
- Del Gruber
- Katy Hayhurst
- Dan Kocher
- John Loffink
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Mike Nielsen
- Eric Schumacher
- Len Wolinsky
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