(July 1940)
Fox,
1939 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1940-05-15
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Fox Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
FP
- Editing
- Victor Fox
Issue Notes
The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1940, New Series, Vol. 35, No. 3.
[no title indexed]
Blue Beetle / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Bomb Kills Hundreds in Midtown!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; The Sylvanian Consul Secretary (villain, introduction)
Indexer Notes
Though Blue Beetle is not explained as having superpowers until next issue, he may display them here for the first time when he defeats 20 mobsters in one fistfight, when previously he could take two or three mobsters at a time.
[The Giant Airplane Blimp]
Wing Turner / comic story / 3 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- George Tuska ? (signed as Floyd Kelly)
- Inks
- George Tuska (signed as Floyd Kelly)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- adventure; aviation
- Characters
- Wing Turner; the Nazis (villains)
[The Crow from Space]
Rex Dexter / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Rex Dexter; Jan (introduction); Yna (introduction); The Hunter (villain, introduction, death)
- Reprints
-
in The Eagle (Fox, 1941 series) #1 (July 1941) - in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #92 ([April] 2014)
-
[The Federal Reserve Robbery]
The Green Mask / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Green Mask [Michael Shelby]; Voss (villain, introduction); Lovensky (villain, introduction); Boris (villain, introduction); Hans (villain, introduction); un-named spies (villains, introduction)
[no title indexed]
Billy Bounce / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Calling all cars!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Billy Bounce
Demons of Doom
Chen Chang / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Munson Paddock (signed as Cecilia Munson)
- Inks
- Munson Paddock (signed as Cecilia Munson)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- adventure; crime
- Characters
- Chen Chang (villain); River Lily (villain)
[The Stuffed Fish Smugglers]
Lt. Drake / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Klaus Nordling (signed as F. Klaus)
- Pencils
- Klaus Nordling (signed as F. Klaus)
- Inks
- Klaus Nordling (signed as F. Klaus)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Feature Logo
- Lt. Drake of the Naval Intelligence
- Genre
- detective-mystery; military
- Characters
- Lt. Drake; Inspector Stevens (cameo); gang of smugglers (villains)
- Synopsis
- Lt. Drake is assigned the task of capturing the men responsible for smuggling orientals into the United States.
- Reprints
The Strange Case of the Terror Castle Grave Robberies
The Moth / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Moth; The Doc (villain, introduction, death)
- Synopsis
- The Doc sends some of his hoodlums into a cemetery looking for a disease-free body into which he plans to transplant a brain, thus allowing him to have the power of God to create life.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
This is the last appearance for this character, who is called "Moth Man" on the cover. The plot of this story just had to have been taken from Mary Shelley's novel, "Frankenstein." NOTE: The strip carries the by-line of "Norman Kingsley", which may have been an editorial alteration of the by-line "Norton Kingsley", which was the pen-name of Chuck A. Winter, who drew The Lynx for Fox in 1941. The editors may have just stuck this by-line on the strip [not unusual in those days]. The Men of Mystery reprint ID's Pierce Rice with the art, but Rice only penciled the strip circa 1941, while Mooney did full art from 1940 into 1941. This information added by Craig Delich 2010-6-1.
[no title indexed]
Hemlock Shomes / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Gee! Shomes, do you hear that?
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Hemlock Shomes
[Attack in the South Atlantic]
D-13 / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- adventure; spy
- Characters
- D-13 [Richard Anthony]; Susan Florenz (introduction); Rico (introduction); Diego (introduction); the Nazis (villains)
[Six Crates for Singapore]
Captain Savage, Sea Rover / comic story / 3 pages
- Feature Logo
- Captain Savage
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Captain Savage
[Zombies of the Bayou]
Zanzibar / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- superhero; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Zanzibar; The Zombie Master (villain, introduction)
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["The Blue Beetle grasped the whip and stopped the villain"]
Blue Beetle -
1.
["Bomb Kills Hundreds in Midtown!"]
Blue Beetle -
2.
[The Giant Airplane Blimp]
Wing Turner -
3.
[The Crow from Space]
Rex Dexter -
4.
[The Federal Reserve Robbery]
The Green Mask -
5.
["Calling all cars!"]
Billy Bounce -
6.
Demons of Doom
Chen Chang -
7.
Twentieth Century Death Ray
-
8.
[The Stuffed Fish Smugglers]
Lt. Drake -
9.
The Strange Case of the Terror Castle Grave Robberies
The Moth -
10.
["Gee! Shomes, do you hear that?"]
Hemlock Shomes -
11.
[Attack in the South Atlantic]
D-13 -
12.
[Six Crates for Singapore]
Captain Savage, Sea Rover -
13.
[Zombies of the Bayou]
Zanzibar
This issue was modified by, among others
- Henry Andrews
- Scott Casper
- Craig Delich
- Gregory Fischer
- Del Gruber
- Clint Maxwell
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Van Dore
- Len Wolinsky
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