(May 1940)
Hyper Publications,
1940 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1940-04-14
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Hyper Publications Inc.
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
On sale date from the fanzine, Fantasy News, dated April 14, 1940 (on page 3). The comic was scheduled for release during the week of April 14-20, 1940. Information shared by Bart Bush through the Comics History Exchange page on Facebook (4 October 2016).
Publication date of 8 March 1940 was reported to the U.S. Copyright Office through the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, 1940, Number 2. Copyright number B 448376.
Publication date of 8 March 1940 was reported to the U.S. Copyright Office through the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, 1940, Number 2. Copyright number B 448376.
[no title indexed]
Hyper the Phenomenal / comic story / 16 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Reg Greenwood (signed as Reg)
- Inks
- Reg Greenwood
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Captain, someone has, we suspect, learned the secret of our new gas
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Hyper [Don-Vin] (first appearance)
Indexer Notes
Continued in next issue. Signed on a door at the bottom of eighth story page.
Explorer Extraordinary Combats the Werdolfs
Commodore Ambord / comic story / 16 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Commodore Ambord; Lt. Brundage; Prof. Oliver Hudker
- Synopsis
- Ambord and his fellow explorers visit Maiden Island, which is infested with "werdolfs," which change their form from human beings to goats and back again.
Indexer Notes
Art is similar to "The Diamond Smugglers" story in this issue.
[no title indexed]
Diamond Smugglers / comic story / 16 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- How'ya, baby!
Solves His First Crime Aided by Nicodemus
Disco, the Boy Detective / comic story / 16 pages
- Genre
- detective-mystery
Indexer Notes
Signed in the next-to-last panel on the last page.
[no title indexed]
text article / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dear Readers: --
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover. This article, signed "The Editor," claims the stories in Hyper Comics are adapted from an unpublished book and diary by famous adventurer "Major J. Smith Lawrence," who is said to have passed away from yellow fever "in the jungles of Central America."
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Hyper the Phenomenal -
1.
["Beginning with next issue of Hyper Comics..."]
Fuller Spunk and Company -
2.
["Captain, someone has, we suspect, learned the secret of our new gas"]
Hyper the Phenomenal -
3.
Explorer Extraordinary Combats the Werdolfs
Commodore Ambord -
4.
["How'ya, baby!"]
Diamond Smugglers -
5.
Solves His First Crime Aided by Nicodemus
Disco, the Boy Detective -
6.
["Dear Readers: --"]
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- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Gregory Fischer
- Katy Hayhurst
- James Ludwig
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