Soldiers of Fortune #1

(March-April 1951)

Meet Ace Carter (Table of Contents: 1)

Ace Carter Adventurer / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Leonard Starr

Inks

Leonard Starr

Colors

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Letters

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Genre

adventure; jungle

Characters

Ace Carter; Miss Ellen Prescott; Bruce; Professor Anthony Prescott (Flashback)

Synopsis

Ellen Prescott hires Ace Carter to lead her to a place in the jungle where her father had located a diamond necklace.

A Mission for the General (Table of Contents: 2)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Script

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Letters

Ed Hamilton; typeset

Genre

adventure

Captain Crossbones -- Soldier of Fortune (Table of Contents: 3)

Captain Crossbones / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Sheldon Moldoff (signed as Shelly)

Inks

Sheldon Moldoff (signed as Shelly)

Colors

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Letters

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Genre

adventure; historical

Characters

Captain Crossbones [Tom Rutherford]; Captain Smithers; Alf; Blackhand (Pirate); Duke; Lady Nancy Terrence

Synopsis

Tom runs away and stows on a ship as a youngster. He is eventually captured by pirates, where he grows to adulthood. When the captain captures Lady Nancy Terrence, Tom kills him and becomes Captain Crossbones.

Indexer Notes

Origin of Captain Crossbones.

The Sioux Massacres (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Ed Moritz

Inks

Ed Moritz

Colors

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Letters

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Genre

non-fiction; western-frontier

Characters

Jim Bridger; Colonel Fetterman; Red Cloud

Synopsis

The story of the Fetterman Massacre and the reprisal by the U.S. Calvary.

Indexer Notes

Based on true events.

The faces with many thin inklines on page one, and the inklines on cheeks in sideview, and peculiar lines inside ear in second panel on page two, are signs of Moritz.

Gamble against Odds (Table of Contents: 5)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Script

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Letters

Ed Hamilton; typeset

Genre

adventure

Richard Burton, alias Ruffian Dick (Table of Contents: 6)

True Soldiers of Fortune / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

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Pencils

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Inks

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Colors

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Letters

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Genre

adventure

Characters

Richard Burton; Isabel Arundel; Grand Emir of Harar

Synopsis

The story of Richard Burton and his adventures, including being the first white man to see the sacred Moslem ceremonies in Mecca and discovering lake Tanganyika.

Galley Slaves (Table of Contents: 7)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Script

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Letters

Ed Hamilton; typeset

The Man of a Thousand Faces! (Table of Contents: 8)

Lance Larson, Soldier Of Fortune / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Charles Sultan

Inks

Charles Sultan

Colors

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Letters

Ed Hamilton

Genre

adventure

Characters

Lance Larson; Midge; Atlas; Zortan; Alexi Ivanov

Synopsis

Lance Larson must stop some spies from stealing the secret behind Alexi Ivanov's new cosmic-ray powered weapon.

Indexer Notes

Originally credited to Edmond Good, like the "Sioux Massacre", even if the artwork is very different. The best to compare with is the Charles Sultan story in "Adventures Into the Unknown" #25. There the many close up faces in side view are identical both in layout and inking to this one. Some of the many smiling faces in close up, with heavy jaw and chin, especially in sideview on page 7 are very much like Paul Gustavson, except the inking, but with Sultan it all fits. Anyway, it is NOT Edmond Good. His faces are more rounded and with bright eyes and lips like Johnny Hazard.