Target Comics
#v1#9 [9]
(October 1940)
Novelty / Premium / Curtis,
1940 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1940-08-28
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Novelty Press Inc.
- Editing
- David Adams
Issue Notes
first letters page in this issue
The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1941, New Series, Vol. 36, No. 1.
The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1941, New Series, Vol. 36, No. 1.
[no title indexed]
White Streak / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- As Dr. Death's sinister shadow appeared on the wall behind him, White Streak whirled.
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- White Streak
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[no title indexed]
White Streak / comic story / 12 pages
- Script
- Carl Burgos (signed as by Carl Burgos 40)
- Pencils
- Carl Burgos (signed as by Carl Burgos 40)
- Inks
- Carl Burgos (signed as by Carl Burgos 40)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Carl Burgos (signed as by Carl Burgos 40)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dr. Death, the greatest war criminal known to mankind, runs afoul of the White Streak, breaker of warmongers and profiteers, who has promised to capture this master criminal!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Dr. Death (villain); Messon (villain; death); Slim (villain; introduction; death); Baldy (villain; introduction); Betty [Simms?] (introduction; death); White Streak
[no title indexed]
Spacehawk / comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- Basil Wolverton (credited)
- Pencils
- Basil Wolverton (credited)
- Inks
- Basil Wolverton (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Basil Wolverton (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Election returns are almost half in, Glork, and you're still ahead.
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Glork (villain; introduction; death; Martian); Robo (King of Mars; introduction)
- Reprints
-
in Spacehawk (Archival Press, 1978 series) (July 1978) - in Death Rattle (Kitchen Sink Press, 1985 series) #14 (January 1988)
- in The 3-D Zone (3-D Zone, 1986 series) #18 (1989)
- in Spacehawk (Dark Horse, 1989 series) #3 (1990)
- in Wolverton in Space (Dark Horse, 1997 series) (March 1997)
- in Spacehawk (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) (December 2012)
-
[The Murder of Joe the Goon-Man]
T-Men / comic story / 6 pages
- Characters
- Joe the Goon-Man (Intro; Death); Sam Barkus (Villain; Intro)
Indexer Notes
last appearance
[The Telepath and the Gorilla]
Calling 2-R / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Jack Warren
- Pencils
- Jack Warren [as Alonzo Vincent] (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Warren [as Alonzo Vincent] (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Jack Warren
- Characters
- Braino (Villain; Intro); Cristo (Villain; Intro; a Gorilla)
[no title indexed]
The Chameleon / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Douglas Allan
- Pencils
- Bill Everett (signed)
- Inks
- Bill Everett (signed)
- Colors
- Douglas Allan
- Letters
- Douglas Allan; Bill Everett (signed)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Slim -- stop the car! That's Parks!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Chameleon [Peter Stockbridge] [also as Ropollo; Parks]; Slim; Detective Parks; Joe Antonio [Joey]; Mrs. Antonio (Joey's mother); Sam Ropollo (villain, introduction); Mike Donati (villain, introduction)
- Synopsis
- Mike Donati, unhappy that young Joey will not join his East Side gang, frames the boy for a robbery, and it's up to the Chameleon to get to the truth and apprehend the culprits.
- Reprints
- in The Bill Everett Archives (Fantagraphics, 2011 series) #2 - Heroic Tales (September 2013)
-
Indexer Notes
This story is signed "Paul Quinn and Bill Everett." The art looks very much like Everett pencils, inks, and letters. The "Douglas Allan" credit is from the original GCD entry, pre-2002.
[no title indexed]
Bull's Eye Bill / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Bull's Eye Bill has leasesd the Target Ranch to United Pictures for their new picture, "Wild Mesa," starring Tex O'Connor.
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Tex O'Connor (villain)
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["As Dr. Death's sinister shadow appeared on the wall behind him, White Streak whirled."]
White Streak -
1.
["Dr. Death, the greatest war criminal known to mankind, runs afoul of the White Streak, breaker of warmongers and profiteers, who has promised to capture this master criminal!"]
White Streak -
2.
["Election returns are almost half in, Glork, and you're still ahead."]
Spacehawk -
3.
Boomerang
Fantastic Feature Films -
4.
Quick Change Artist
-
5.
The Eyes Have It
Lucky Byrd -
6.
[The Murder of Joe the Goon-Man]
T-Men -
7.
[The Telepath and the Gorilla]
Calling 2-R -
8.
["Slim -- stop the car! That's Parks!"]
The Chameleon -
9.
["Bull's Eye Bill has leasesd the Target Ranch to United Pictures for their new picture, "Wild Mesa," starring Tex O'Connor."]
Bull's Eye Bill
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- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Craig Delich
- Del Gruber
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Jim Van Dore
- Len Wolinsky
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