Samson #1
(Fall 1940)

Fox, 1940 Series
| Next Issue >
Price
0.10 USD; 0.15 CAD
Pages
68
Indicia Frequency
quarterly
On-sale Date
1940-08-10
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Fox Publications Inc.
Editing
?

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] (Table of Contents)

Samson / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Edd Ashe ?
Inks
Edd Ashe ?
Colors
Mike Okamoto ?
Genre
superhero
Characters
Samson

Indexer Notes

Box on cover announces "Free Giant Bottle of Kooba Drink See Inside Cover". This refers to a fictitious cola drink promoted in Fox Comics in an attempt to create demand for its production.

Cover Thumbnail for Samson (Fox, 1940 series) #1
Edit cover
Cover gallery

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

Samson / comic story / 14 pages (report information)

Script
Toni Blum (under house name Alex Boon)
Pencils
Louis Cazeneuve
Inks
Louis Cazeneuve ?
Colors
?
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Out of the mists of history comes the mighty Samson...
Genre
superhero
Characters
Samson [Sam ?] (origin); David (origin); Samson's mother (intro); The Mask (intro, dies); Dr. Dag (intro, dies); Ko (intro, dies)

Indexer Notes

Script credit from Bails' Who's Who.

This story originally prepared as a proposed daily newspaper strip.

[The Coming of Samson] (Table of Contents: 2)

Samson / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Script
Toni Blum ? (under house name Alex Boon)
Pencils
Alex Blum
Inks
Alex Blum ?; ? (shop)
Colors
?
Letters
?
Editing
Victor Fox (original)
Genre
superhero
Characters
Samson (intro); Thorga (villain, intro)
Reprints

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Wing Turner / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script
Jack Kirby (under house name Floyd Kelly)
Pencils
George Tuska
Inks
George Tuska
Colors
?
Letters
?
Editing
Victor Fox (original editor)
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Wing is in Europe when the war breaks...
Genre
war
Characters
Wing Turner
Reprints

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

Samson / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Script
Toni Blum ? (under house name Alex Boon)
Pencils
Alex Blum
Inks
Alex Blum ?; ? (shop)
Colors
?
Letters
?
Editing
Victor Fox (original editor)
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Dragor has unleashed his dogs of war at the world
Genre
superhero
Characters
Samson; Dragor (villain, intro); Ratonians (villains, intro)
Reprints

Samson and the Murder Ring (Table of Contents: 5)

Samson / text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
? [as Edward Young]
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset
Genre
crime; superhero
Characters
Samson

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6)

Samson / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Script
Will Eisner ? (credited as Alex Boon)
Pencils
Alex Blum
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
A super magnetic plance that is capable of lifting huge ocean liners threatens the safety of the seas..
Genre
superhero
Characters
Samson; VILLAIN: J. B. Reegan (intro)
Reprints

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 7)

K-51 Spies at War / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
Will Eisner
Pencils
Bob Powell
Inks
Bob Powell
Colors
?
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Despite heroic efforts to prevent war, Poland is invaded and a second world war begins.
Genre
war
Reprints
Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Samson
  2. 1. ["Out of the mists of history comes the mighty Samson..."]
    Samson
  3. 2. [The Coming of Samson]
    Samson
  4. 3. ["Wing is in Europe when the war breaks..."]
    Wing Turner
  5. 4. ["Dragor has unleashed his dogs of war at the world"]
    Samson
  6. 5. Samson and the Murder Ring
    Samson
  7. 6. ["A super magnetic plance that is capable of lifting huge ocean liners threatens the safety of the seas.."]
    Samson
  8. 7. ["Despite heroic efforts to prevent war, Poland is invaded and a second world war begins."]
    K-51 Spies at War
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Gregory Fischer
  • Del Gruber
  • Katy Hayhurst
  • Bob Hughes
  • Donald Dale Milne
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Tony Oliva
  • Antonio Pontes Junior
  • Tony R. Rose
  • Patrick Shaughnessy
  • Henry Steele, Hames Ware, Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. (R.I.P.)
  • Jim Van Dore
If you believe any of this data to be incorrect, please let us know.
Cover thumbnails are used for identification purposes only. All rights to cover images reserved by the respective copyright holders.
Creative Commons License All portions of the Grand Comics Database™, except where noted otherwise, are copyrighted by the GCD and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format.
The GCD Privacy Policy. The GCD Web Site code is licensed under the GNU General Public License.