(April 1940)
Worth Carnahan,
1939 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- ?
- On-sale Date
- 1940-02-28
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Worth Publishing Co. Inc.
- Editing
- Worth Carnahan; Adolphe Barreaux (associate editor)
Issue Notes
On sale date from the publication date found at the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, 1940, Number 2. Class B periodical. Copyright number B 445837.
[no title indexed]
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hello there friends!
[The Deadliest Basketball Game]
The Champ / comic story / 12 pages
- Genre
- adventure; sports
- Characters
- The Champ; Fay Madison; Gil Tomlinson (villain); Silky Burle (Intro); Old Charlie (intro); Doc Schultz; Pierre Fortesque
[no title indexed]
Queer Championships / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- George Papp (signed)
- Inks
- George Papp (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- non-fiction; sports
[The Money Smugglers]
Liberty Lads / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- historical
- Characters
- Liberty Lads; Capt. Adair
[Civilization, Pirates, and Shipwreck]
Jungleman / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- jungle
- Characters
- Jungleman; Meng-Wong (Intro, Dies, villain)
[Episode One]
Dragon's Teeth / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Dash Dolan; Nalva Randolph; Dr. Ying; Sheng-Fang (villain); Lotus (villain)
[The Invisibility Pellets]
Johnny Fox / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Johnny Fox (intro, origin); Olga Rakoff; Peter Pokane (villain); Marcus Rail (villain)
[In the Land of the Surface People]
Neptina / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- science fiction; superhero
- Characters
- Neptina; Nick (villain); Tony (villain); Mack (villain); Kalok (intro)
Airships in Stamps
Champion Stamp Page / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction
Indexer Notes
This is the only appearance of the "Champion Stamp Page" feature.
[Introducing Duke O'Dowd]
Human Meteor / comic story / 5 pages
- Feature Logo
- Duke O'Dowd
- Genre
- adventure; superhero
- Characters
- Duke O'Dowd (introduction, Foreign Legionnaire); Karl Von Hond (introduction, villain)
The Case of the Men with the Green Hair
Lobo, the Flying Sleuth / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- adventure; aviation; detective-mystery
- Characters
- Lobo (a detective); Bob Dolan; August (villain)
The Economical Farmer
Champion Puzzler / activity / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Signed with Worth Carnahan's monogram "WC."
[Dodo Island]
Bill Handy / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Bill Handy; Marco; Pug; Prof. Stone (intro); Prof. Maxon (Intro, villain)
- Synopsis
- Prof. Stone tells Bill that in 1570 Captain Vetasco carried some dodo birds as a gift to a chief in Ecuador. The ship was wrecked on one of the Galapagos islands, and the professor believes the dodo survived there. Bill sails the Polaris through the Panama Canal to the island to capture a living dodo.
- Keywords
- Selfridge University
Indexer Notes
This is the final appearance of the "Bill Handy" feature.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
The Champ -
1.
["Hello there friends!"]
-
2.
[The Deadliest Basketball Game]
The Champ -
3.
[no title indexed]
Queer Championships -
4.
[The Money Smugglers]
Liberty Lads -
5.
[Civilization, Pirates, and Shipwreck]
Jungleman -
6.
[Episode One]
Dragon's Teeth -
7.
[The Invisibility Pellets]
Johnny Fox -
8.
Fight For Life
-
9.
[In the Land of the Surface People]
Neptina -
10.
Airships in Stamps
Champion Stamp Page -
11.
[Introducing Duke O'Dowd]
Human Meteor -
12.
The Case of the Men with the Green Hair
Lobo, the Flying Sleuth -
13.
The Economical Farmer
Champion Puzzler -
14.
[Dodo Island]
Bill Handy
This issue was modified by, among others
- Darci
- Henry Andrews
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- John Censullo
- Bob Hughes
- Clint Maxwell
- Mike Nielsen
- David Wilt
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