Fantastic Comics #4

(March 1940)

[The Giant Robots of Kilgor] (Table of Contents)

Samson / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Will Eisner ?

Pencils:

Alex Blum

Inks:

Alex Blum

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Characters:

Samson; Kilgor (villain, introduction, death)

[Invasion of the Three-Armed Men] (Table of Contents)

Flip Falcon / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Don Rico

Inks:

Don Rico

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Characters:

Flip Falcon; Three-Armed Men (villains)

Indexer Notes

Flick Falcon's name changed to Flip.

The Legend of the Haunted Well (Table of Contents)

Golden Knight / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Grieg Chapian

Inks:

Grieg Chapian

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Characters:

Golden Knight [Sir Richard of Warwick]; Alice (introduction)

[The Silent Explosive] (Table of Contents)

Yank Wilson / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Characters:

Yank Wilson; Terro (villain, introduction, death)

Lost In Time (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Richard Paul (signed)

Letters:

typeset

[Headless Men of the Gold Comet] (Table of Contents)

Space Smith / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Fletcher Hanks [as Hank Christy] (signed)

Pencils:

Fletcher Hanks [as Hank Christy] (signed)

Inks:

Fletcher Hanks [as Hank Christy] (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

Fletcher Hanks

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Space Smith; Dianna; The Thinker (villain, introduction)

Synopsis:

Space Smith and Dianna are attacked by the Thinker's headless soldiers while they investigate the comet of gold.

Reprints:

• in You Shall Die by Your Own Creation! (Fantagraphics, 2009 series) #[nn]

Indexer Notes

The first line of text reads: "Space" has just received a radio call from a lunar station, inviting him and Dianna to visit the moon for a close-up of a new comet."

["Hearing rumors of a strange cult of hideous beast-men..."] (Table of Contents)

Captain Kidd / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Toni Blum ?

Pencils:

Bill Bossert

Inks:

Bill Bossert

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Characters:

Captain Kidd

["Deep down in a gloomy subterranean subcellar..."] (Table of Contents)

Professor Fiend / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Fred Schwab

Pencils:

Fred Schwab

Inks:

Fred Schwab

Colors:

?

Letters:

Fred Schwab

Content Information

Characters:

Professor Fiend

Indexer Notes

Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 2010-3-13.

[The Mad Giant Experimenter] (Table of Contents)

Stardust / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Fletcher Hanks (signed)

Pencils:

Fletcher Hanks (signed)

Inks:

Fletcher Hanks (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

Fletcher Hanks

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction; superhero

Characters:

Stardust; The Mad Giant (introduction); Kamet (introduction)

Synopsis:

Stardust prevents the Mad Giant from destroying Chicago with a volcano that appears in Lake Michigan.

Reprints:

• in You Shall Die by Your Own Evil Creation! (Fantagraphics, 2009 series) #[nn] (June 2009)
• in You Shall Die by Your Own Creation! (Fantagraphics, 2009 series) #[nn]

Indexer Notes

The first line of text reads: "Stardust, the scientific marvel whose vast interplanetary knowledge has given him greater powers than anybody else, has learned through his scopes that a mad giant experimenter, who dwells in the Gobi desert, is planning to destroy the world."

[The Problem of Prince Pizga] (Table of Contents)

Sub Saunders / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Henry Kiefer

Inks:

Henry Kiefer

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Characters:

Sub Saunders; Thetis (introduction); Prince Pizga (villain, introduction, death)