The Bill Everett Archives #2 - Heroic Tales

(September 2013)

Table of Contents (Table of Contents: 1)

table of contents / 2 pages (report information)

Letters

typeset

Bill Everett (Table of Contents: 2)

illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

? (photograph)

Inks

? (photograph)

Synopsis

Photograph of Bill Everett.

Introduction (Table of Contents: 3)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 10 pages (report information)

Script

Blake Bell

Pencils

Bill Everett

Inks

Bill Everett

Letters

typeset

The Heroes (Table of Contents: 4)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Blake Bell

Pencils

Bill Everett

Inks

Bill Everett

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

[Amazing Mystery Funnies #v2#3] (Table of Contents: 5)

Skyrocket Steele / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Bill Everett (signed)

Inks

Bill Everett (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Skyrocket Steele Dodge

Reprints

• from Amazing Mystery Funnies (Centaur, 1938 series) #v2#3 (March 1939)

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

Skyrocket Steele in the Year X (about 2500 A.D.) / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Bill Everett ?

Pencils

Bill Everett (signed)

Inks

Bill Everett (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Back on Earth, after their adventure on the planetoid Mannin...

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Skyrocket Steele Dodge; Invex (the Invisible Man); Sari Marston (Steele's girl); Paul Marston (Sari's brother, spy for the Red Men of Venus); Martin (castle guard); Vance Roy (villain, mention only)

Synopsis

Invex reports to Steele that his formula for his new creation, the "Invisia-Ray", has been stolen from the safe. Unknown to either, Steele's girl has taken the formula and uses it on herself in order to trail Vance Roy unawares and see what evil plans he has in store. And what she discovers is too horrible to contemplate: the Yellow Star Army has seized control of the entire planet.

Reprints

• from Amazing Mystery Funnies (Centaur, 1938 series) #v2#3 (March 1939)

Keywords

Invisa-Ray; Mini-cab; Yellow Star Army

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

Skyrocket Steele / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Bill Everett (signed)

Inks

Bill Everett (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Our scene opens with an air battle........

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Skyrocket Steele Dodge; Sari Marston; Paul Marston (Sari's brother, spy for the Red Men of Venus)

Synopsis

Sari and Paul, in their plane, attack air units of the Yellow Star Army and are shot down. When Steele rescues them, he places both under arrest and is in the process of returning them to the castle for trial. Paul knocks Steele out, then he and his sister head off in Steele's ship.

Reprints

• from Amazing Mystery Funnies (Centaur, 1938 series) #v2#4 (April 1939)

Keywords

Yellow Star Army

Indexer Notes

Story was printed in red, black and white.

[Amazing Mystery Funnies #v2#5] (Table of Contents: 8)

Skyrocket Steele / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Bill Everett (signed)

Inks

Bill Everett (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Skyrocket Steele Dodge

Reprints

• from Amazing Mystery Funnies (Centaur, 1938 series) #v2#5 (May 1939)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 9)

Skyrocket Steele / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Bill Everett (signed)

Inks

Bill Everett (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Bound for Venus, Paul Marston pilots a stolen Earth-ship -

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Skyrocket Steele Dodge; Sari Marston; Paul Marston (brother of Sari, spy for the Red Men of Venus); Neo Nunn (villain, death); Vance Roy (villain)

Synopsis

Sari and Paul head for the planet Venus with Steele as their prisoner and are attacked and downed by another vessel. The pair go after the villainous Vance Roy and eventually exonerate themselves from the suspicion of them working for Vance Roy.

Reprints

• from Amazing Mystery Funnies (Centaur, 1938 series) #v2#5 (May 1939)

Keywords

Bendozi Spur; Space Detector

Indexer Notes

Inking credit from Jim Vadeboncoeur via error report.

End of storyline.

[Amazing Mystery Funnies #v2#6] (Table of Contents: 10)

Air-Sub DX / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Bill Everett (signed)

Inks

Bill Everett (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Air-Sub DX

Reprints

• from Amazing Mystery Funnies (Centaur, 1938 series) #v2#6 (June 1939)

[Amazing Man Comics #9] (Table of Contents: 11)

Aman the Amazing-Man / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Bill Everett (signed as Everett)

Inks

Bill Everett (signed as Everett)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

superhero

Characters

Amazing Man [John Aman]; the Nazis

Reprints

• from Amazing Man Comics (Centaur, 1939 series) #9 (February 1940)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 12)

Aman the Amazing-Man / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

Allen L. Kirby ?

Pencils

Bill Everett (signed)

Inks

Bill Everett (signed); ?

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Aman, the "Amazing-Man", having abandoned his plan to avenge the misdeeds...

Genre

superhero

Characters

Amazing-Man [John Aman]; Elsie (a nurse); Pat (a nurse)The Great Question (villain); un-named German Leutnant (villain); Herman (villain); Karl (villain); Erich (villain, intern, death); Wilhelm (villain); Joseph (villain); other Nazis (villains, some die)

Synopsis

Escaping from the clutches of the Nazis, thanks to "The Green Mist," Aman steals a German plane and heads for Berlin but is shot down, injured, and once again captured. While Aman is in the hospital, the Great Question mentally contacts him and demands he escape and head for Tibet.

Reprints

• from Amazing Man Comics (Centaur, 1939 series) #9 (February 1940)

Keywords

Hetrocoryn; Siegfried Line; The Green Mist

Indexer Notes

According to Blake Bell, Everett received an art assist on this story from some unknown artist.

Writer credit revised from Bill Everett to Kirby.

[Amazing Man Comics #10] (Table of Contents: 13)

Aman the Amazing-Man / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Script

Bill Everett

Pencils

Bill Everett (signed as Everett)

Inks

Bill Everett (signed as Everett)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Amazing Man [John Aman]

Reprints

• from Amazing Man Comics (Centaur, 1939 series) #10 (March 1940)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 14)

Aman the Amazing-Man / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

Allen L. Kirby ?

Pencils

Bill Everett (signed)

Inks

Bill Everett (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Making his escape from an underground hospital...

Genre

superhero

Characters

Amazing-Man [John Aman]; The Council; Paul (villain); un-named Nazi pilot (villain); The Great Question (villain)

Synopsis

Aman takes over a German aircraft and heads towards Tibet, safely dumping the pilots on the way but losing the ship in a freakish accident. He is rescued by the villagers of Kahar in an almost unknown region in central Asia on a high plateau near the Himalayas. Summoned by the Great Question, Aman makes it to the Council chambers in Tibet to await his fate.

Reprints

• from Amazing Man Comics (Centaur, 1939 series) #10 (March 1940)

Keywords

Kahar

Indexer Notes

Writer credit revised from Bill Everett to Kirby.

[Amazing Man Comics #11] (Table of Contents: 15)

Aman the Amazing-Man / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Bill Everett

Inks

Bill Everett

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Amazing-Man [John Aman]

Reprints

• from Amazing Man Comics (Centaur, 1939 series) #11 (April 1940)

Indexer Notes

Art verification by Blake Bell in Bill Everett Archives #2.

1st appearance of Aman in his distinctive uniform.

Purification! (Table of Contents: 16)

Aman the Amazing-Man / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

Allen L. Kirby

Pencils

Bill Everett (signed)

Inks

Bill Everett (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Amazing-Man [John Aman]; Zona Henderson (special investigator for the New Orleans Eagle, introduction); The Council [Professor Nika; others un-named]; The Great Question (villain); Slick (villain, pirate); Garlock (villain, pirate chief); Harper (villain, pirate)

Synopsis

Aman is put to the Test of Fire for purification purposes, then asks if he can return to America. Granted permission, Aman flys until he runs out of gas over the bayous of Louisiana. There he runs into a special investigator for a Louisiana newspaper who has been captured by a gang of pirates.

Reprints

• from Amazing Man Comics (Centaur, 1939 series) #11 (April 1940)

Keywords

The Green Mist

Indexer Notes

The Green Mist is now automatically controlled by the distinctive "A" on Aman's new uniform.

[The Phony Kidnapping of Dawn Parsons] (Table of Contents: 17)

Bull's-Eye Bill / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Bill Everett ?

Pencils

Bill Everett (signed)

Inks

Bill Everett (signed)

Colors

Bill Everett

Letters

Bill Everett

Genre

western-frontier

Characters

Bill Target; Steve Casey (Bill's partner); Dave (town postmaster); un-named town Sheriff; Steve (Deputy); Dawn Parsons (introduction, Dee Parson's sister); Happy (Dawn's companion); Milford (villain); The Wells Gang (villains, introduction for all)

Synopsis

Arriving back in town from Cat-Tail Canyon, Bill receives a letter from Dawn Parsons stating that she has been kidnapped and the ransom is $50,000.

Reprints

• from Target Comics (Novelty / Premium / Curtis, 1940 series) #v1#3 [3] (April 1940)

[The Coming of Cameron] (Table of Contents: 18)

Bull's-Eye Bill / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Bill Everett ?

Pencils

Bill Everett (signed as Blake Everett)

Inks

Bill Everett (signed as Blake Everett)

Colors

Bill Everett (signed as Blake Everett)

Letters

Bill Everett

Genre

western-frontier

Characters

Bill Target; Quing (a cook); Steve Casey (mention only); Dawn; Bob (Sheriff); Ted Cameron (villain, introduction); Blackbeard Hurston (villain, introduction, death); Tony (villain)

Synopsis

Bill has a run-in with a dude named Ted Cameron who has accompanied Dawn to see what a round-up camp looks like. In actuality, Cameron is interested in securing some mining papers, claims and deeds.

Reprints

• from Target Comics (Novelty / Premium / Curtis, 1940 series) #v1#4 [4] (May 1940)

[The Kohinoor Diamond] (Table of Contents: 19)

The Chameleon / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Doug Allan (signed)

Pencils

Bill Everett (signed)

Inks

Bill Everett (signed)

Colors

Doug Allan

Letters

Bill Everett

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Chameleon [Peter Stockbridge]; Slim (Stockbridge's driver); Mrs. Carpenter; Hans Gunlau (jewel cutter); Clancy (Policeman); James Brighton (villain, introduction); Butch (villain); Limpey Lew (villain); Jake (villain)

Synopsis

The Chameleon learns of the theft of the famed Kohinoor Diamond, and traces it to one James Brighton, who intends to waylay a famed jewel cutter and to have the stone cut into smaller diamonds for quick sale.

Reprints

• from Target Comics (Novelty / Premium / Curtis, 1940 series) #v1#7 [7] (August 1940)

Keywords

Kohinoor Diamond

[Spies of the Oriental Chop House] (Table of Contents: 20)

The Chameleon / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Doug Allan (signed)

Pencils

Bill Everett (signed)

Inks

Bill Everett (signed)

Colors

Doug Allan

Letters

Bill Everett

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Chameleon [Peter Stockbridge] [also as Hans; Wong; Louis; Ralston]; Slim (Stockbrisge's chauffeur); Detective Parks; Senator Dodge; Pierre (Chop House owner); The Master [James Ralston](villain, politician, introduction); Hans (villain); Wong (villain); Louis (villain); Higgins (villain, Ralston's butler); George (villain)

Synopsis

The Chameleon is blamed for the disappearance of vital plans for national fortifications. Through a series of unique impersonations, he traces the stolen plans to their location.

Reprints

• from Target Comics (Novelty / Premium / Curtis, 1940 series) #v1#8 [8] (September 1940)

Keywords

Oriental Chop House

Indexer Notes

The art was also signed "Everett" in the last panel.

[The Fence and the Frameup] (Table of Contents: 21)

The Chameleon / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Paul Quinn (signed)

Pencils

Bill Everett (signed)

Inks

Bill Everett (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

Bill Everett

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Chameleon [Peter Stockbridge] [also as Ropollo; Parks]; Slim (Stockbridge's chauffeur); Detective Parks; Joe Antonio [aka Joey]; Mrs. Antonio (Joey's mother); Sam Ropollo (villain, curiousity shop owner, 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

• from Target Comics (Novelty / Premium / Curtis, 1940 series) #v1#9 [9] (October 1940)

Indexer Notes

Art also signed "Everett" in the last panel.

[Reg'lar Fellers Heroic Comics #6] (Table of Contents: 22)

Hydroman / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Bill Everett (signed as Everett)

Inks

Bill Everett (signed as Everett)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Hydroman [Bob Blake]

Reprints

• from Reg'lar Fellers Heroic Comics (Eastern Color, 1940 series) #6 (May 1941)

Keywords

patriotic

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 23)

Hydroman / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Bill Everett (signed)

Inks

Bill Everett (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Hydroman [Bob Blake]; Joyce; Harry Thurston; Henri (waiter); Jules Noel (scientist, Margery's father, mention only); Margery Noel (villain); Matthew (villain, Margery's chauffeur); Hans (villain)

Synopsis

Murmuring that the government will not give its full cooperation to the mysterious Oriental invaders, Bob, Joyce and Harry go their separate ways for the evening. Bob is later kidnapped by a lady Fifth Columnist and is imprisoned in a glass cage which he later breaks out of.

Reprints

• from Reg'lar Fellers Heroic Comics (Eastern Color, 1940 series) #6 (May 1941)

Keywords

patriotic

[Reg'lar Fellers Heroic Comics #7] (Table of Contents: 24)

Hydroman / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Bill Everett

Inks

Bill Everett

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Hydroman [Bob Blake]

Reprints

• from Reg'lar Fellers Heroic Comics (Eastern Color, 1940 series) #7 (July 1941)

Keywords

patriotic

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 25)

Hydroman / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Bill Everett (signed)

Inks

Bill Everett (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Why, you--!!!

Genre

superhero

Characters

Hydroman [Bob Blake]; Mr. Anders; Hans (villain); Margery Noel (villain)

Synopsis

Having escaped from a glass cage in a foreign freighter's stateroom, Hydroman overpowers one of the guards, contains two others, and forcibly takes Margery from the ship. Arriving on land, Hydroman orders a taxi driver to take them to Bob Blake's apartment, but the cabbie smells a rat and dumps them out at the local police precinct.

Reprints

• from Reg'lar Fellers Heroic Comics (Eastern Color, 1940 series) #7 (July 1941)

Keywords

patriotic

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 26)

Bob Blake --- Hydroman / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Bill Everett

Pencils

Bill Everett

Inks

Bill Everett

Colors

?

Letters

Bill Everett

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Last issue Bob escaped from the freighter...

Genre

superhero

Characters

Hydroman [Bob Blake]; Joyce; Harry Thurston; Dave (by-stander); Margery Noel (villain); Paul (villain, spy); Karl (villain, spy); Josef (villain, spy); Hermann (villain, spy); Wilhelm (villain, spy); Ludwig (villain, spy); Oscar (villain, spy)

Synopsis

Hydroman loses control of Margery Noel when policemen appear on the scene to capture him. Returning to his apartment, Bob brings Harry and Joyce up to date on the situation. Suddenly a group of spies appear on the scene. However, Hydroman has a countermove in mind that will draw out the real crooks.

Reprints

• from Reg'lar Fellers Heroic Comics (Eastern Color, 1940 series) #8 (September 1941)

Keywords

patriotic

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 27)

Bob Blake Hydroman / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Bill Everett (signed)

Inks

Bill Everett (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

Bill Everett

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Bob Blake, the scientific marvel known as the 'Hydroman'[...]

Genre

superhero

Characters

Hydroman [Bob Blake]; Harry Thurston; Joyce; Inspector Mooney; Jimmy; Margery Noel (villain, death); Josef (villain)

Synopsis

Margery and her co-horts walk right into Hydroman's trap in his apartment, and he subdues them as Margery commits suicide. However, Hydroman wants no part of the police in this matter, so he arranges for himself, Harry and Joyce to escape.

Reprints

• from Reg'lar Fellers Heroic Comics (Eastern Color, 1940 series) #9 (November 1941)

Indexer Notes

Story art signed in the next-to-last panel.

[Elcadorian Jailbreak] (Table of Contents: 28)

Red Reed in the Americas! / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Bob Davis (credited)

Pencils

Bill Everett (signed)

Inks

Bill Everett (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

adventure

Characters

Red Reed (introduction); Jose Navarro (introduction); Pedro Cazzar (introduction); Mr. North (sailor, introduction); General Cados (Elcador leader, introduction); Tito (Pedro's house servant, introduction); Senorita Mollie Day (Jose's father's secretary); Mr. Navarro (Jose's father, introduction); Mrs. Navarro (Jose's mother, introduction); Juan (Jose's friend, introduction); Pancho Zano (villain, introduction)

Synopsis

Red and Jose fly to Florida when they hear that a friend of theirs, Pedro, has washed up on the beach, nearly dead. When they question him, they discover that Elcador is in the midst of a revolution, the government cowed by a bandit named Pancho Zano. Red and Jose decide to go to Elcador to aid the government forces.

Reprints

• from Silver Streak Comics (Lev Gleason, 1939 series) #20 (April 1942)

Keywords

Elcador; Orlando's Castle; Rayton University

Indexer Notes

The story is by-lined "created by Bob Davis and Fitz."

The last panel, a blurb for the next issue's story, is signed "W.B.E." (which stands for William Blake Everett).

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 29)

Red Reed in the Americas / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Bob Davis (credited)

Pencils

Bill Everett (signed)

Inks

Bill Everett (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Last month we left our young friends with their comrade, Molly Day[...]

Genre

adventure

Characters

Red Reed; Jose Navarro; Mollie Day; Jose's father (Elcador's Chief of Police); Garcia; Lumpenhunde (death); General Pancho Zano (villain, bandit); Manuel (villain); Herr Otto von Gruber (villain); Herr Kurtz (villain); the Nazis (villains)

Synopsis

Red, Jose and Molly head for the capital city of Elcador to take on Zano and his Nazi-led men. But they are soon captured and imprisoned in a house once owned by a friend of theirs. They find a secret panel which enables them to escape and head for the mountain fortress of the Elcador leader, General Cados.

Reprints

• from Silver Streak Comics (Lev Gleason, 1939 series) #21 (May 1942)

Keywords

Elcador

Indexer Notes

The story is by-lined "Bob Davis and Fitz."

Save on Bullets (Table of Contents: 30)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Ray Gill (signed)

Pencils

Bill Everett (signed as W. B. Everett) (illustrations)

Inks

Bill Everett (signed as W. B. Everett) (illustrations)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

western-frontier

Characters

John Carteris (Sheriff); Kenneth Lester (Deputy); Ken Lester

Synopsis

The Sheriff of Green Gulch was dignified, well bred, and older man (even though he didn't look it or act like it) who was careful, and slow about things, especially guns. Although his young Deputy held that against him, when the chips were down, the Sheriff knew how to take care of troublemakers......without wasting time or lead!

Reprints

• from Silver Streak Comics (Lev Gleason, 1939 series) #1 (December 1939)

Keywords

Black Snake; Dry Creek; Green Gulch; Valley Town

Indexer Notes

Pencils/inks: Eric Schumacher stated (http://errors.comics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4061): Bill Everett.

[Amazing Mystery Funnies #18] (Table of Contents: 31)

Speed Centaur / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Bill Everett (signed as Everett)

Inks

Bill Everett (signed as Everett)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

superhero

Characters

Speed Centaur [Jerry R. McCoy]

Reprints

• from Amazing Mystery Funnies (Centaur, 1938 series) #18 (March 1940)

[Target Comics #v1#5 [5]] (Table of Contents: 32)

White Streak / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Bill Everett

Inks

Bill Everett

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

White Streak

Reprints

• from Target Comics (Novelty / Premium / Curtis, 1940 series) #v1#5 [5] (June 1940)

[Target Comics #v1#6 [6]] (Table of Contents: 33)

White Streak / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Bill Everett

Inks

Bill Everett

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

White Streak

Reprints

• from Target Comics (Novelty / Premium / Curtis, 1940 series) #v1#6 [6] (July 1940)

Tell-Tale Smoke (Table of Contents: 34)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Bill Everett (signed) (illustration)

Inks

Bill Everett (signed) (illustration)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

adventure

Characters

Bob Withers; Ted Johnson; The Boss (villain)

Synopsis

Bob and Ted notice a spiraling smoke coming from the chimney of a shack hidden in the thick scrub-oak of the hill side......a shack that was known to have been unoccupied for months. They decide to investigate, so they land their plane in a clearing, and are promptly shot at!

Reprints

• from Keen Detective Funnies (Centaur, 1938 series) #v1#10 (November 1938)
• from Fantoman (Centaur, 1940 series) #2 (August 1940)
which is reprinted
• from Keen Detective Funnies (Centaur, 1938 series) #v1#10 (November 1938)

[Blue Bolt #v1#11 [11]] (Table of Contents: 35)

Dick Cole / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Bill Everett (signed as Everett)

Inks

Bill Everett (signed as Everett)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

adventure

Characters

Dick Cole

Reprints

• from Blue Bolt (Novelty / Premium / Curtis, 1940 series) #v1#11 [11] (April 1941)

Keywords

Robot

[Blue Bolt #v2#1 [13]] (Table of Contents: 36)

Dick Cole / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Bill Everett (signed as Everett)

Inks

Bill Everett (signed as Everett)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

adventure

Characters

Dick Cole; Simba Karno

Reprints

• from Blue Bolt (Novelty / Premium / Curtis, 1940 series) #v2#1 [13] (June 1941)

[Blue Bolt #v2#2 [14]] (Table of Contents: 37)

Dick Cole / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Bill Everett (signed)

Inks

Bill Everett (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

adventure

Characters

Dick Cole; Simba Karno

Reprints

• from Blue Bolt (Novelty / Premium / Curtis, 1940 series) #v2#2 [14] (July 1941)

[Blue Bolt #v2#3 [15]] (Table of Contents: 38)

Dick Cole / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Bill Everett

Inks

Bill Everett

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

adventure

Characters

Dick Cole; Simba Karno

Reprints

• from Blue Bolt (Novelty / Premium / Curtis, 1940 series) #v2#3 [15] (August 1941)

[Famous Funnies #85] (Table of Contents: 39)

Roy Powers (Eagle Scout) / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Bill Everett (signed as Everett)

Inks

Bill Everett (signed as Everett)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

adventure

Reprints

• from Famous Funnies (Eastern Color, 1934 series) #85 (August 1941)

The Humorous and More (Table of Contents: 40)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Blake Bell

Pencils

Bill Everett

Inks

Bill Everett

Letters

typeset

Genre

humor

Reprints

• from Snafu (Marvel, 1955 series) #v2#2 (March 1956)

Indexer Notes

Includes humorous advertisement for Goo Hair Cream for Men.

What's with the Crosbys? (Table of Contents: 41)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Bill Everett (signed as Everett)

Inks

Bill Everett (signed as Everett)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

biography

Characters

Bing Crosby; Dixie Lee; Paul Whiteman; Larry Crosby; Mr. O'Melveny; Al Rinker; Mildred Bailey; Gary Crosby; Philip Crosby; Dennis Crosby; Lindsay Crosby; Charley

Synopsis

This story recounts the life of Crosby from his earliest days until the present, with his marriage difficulties with Dixie Lee interspersed around and through it.

Reprints

• from Famous Stars (Ziff-Davis, 1950 series) #2 (1950)

Snafu's Lovely Ladies (Table of Contents: 42)

illustration / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Bill Everett

Inks

Bill Everett

Letters

typeset

Characters

Betty

Reprints

• from Snafu (Marvel, 1955 series) #v2#2 (March 1956)

Indexer Notes

Illustration of a scantily-clad lady sitting on the bed of a sick (boy) friend talking to her boyfriend or husband on the phone stating "Not tonight, dear. I'm sitting up with a sick friend."

[The Adventures of Big Boy #1 [West]] (Table of Contents: 43)

Big Boy / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Bill Everett (signed)

Inks

Bill Everett (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

children; adventure

Characters

Big Boy

Reprints

• from The Adventures of Big Boy (Marvel, 1956 series) #1 [West] (1956)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 44)

Bubble-Nut Gum / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Bill Everett

Inks

Bill Everett

Letters

typeset

Genre

humor

Characters

Dick Clark [as Dick Clog]

Reprints

• from Cracked (Major Publications, 1958 series) #6 (December 1958)

Indexer Notes

Illustrated in red, black and white.

Ad for fictional Bubble-Nut Sparemint Gum, which costs only 5 green stamps, which is also good for blow out patches and bicycle tires, and comes in assorted flavors: charcoal grey, plaid green, people purple and sickly blue.

New Look Magazine Covers (Table of Contents: 45)

comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Bill Everett

Inks

Bill Everett

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

humor

Reprints

• from Cracked (Major Publications, 1958 series) #3 (July 1958)

Indexer Notes

Humorous look at what would happen if more conservative type magazines would have pictures of beautiful girls on them.

[Luxury Cruise] (Table of Contents: 46)

illustration / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Bill Everett

Inks

Bill Everett

Letters

typeset

Genre

humor

Reprints

• from Cracked (Major Publications, 1958 series) #6 (December 1958)

Indexer Notes

Two-page humorous aboard ship shennanigans.

Free-For-All-Land (Table of Contents: 47)

comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Bill Everett

Inks

Bill Everett

Letters

?

Genre

humor

Reprints

• from Cracked (Major Publications, 1958 series) #24 (April 1962)

Indexer Notes

Humorous 2-page spread, depicting an all weather, all purpose, all fun vacation spot for adults.

[Zany #3] (Table of Contents: 48)

cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Bill Everett (signed as Everett)

Inks

Bill Everett (signed as Everett)

Colors

?

Genre

humor

Characters

Wolfman; Frankenstein; Dracula

Reprints

• from Zany (Candar, 1958 series) #3 (March 1959)

Love Knows No Rules (Table of Contents: 49)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Bill Everett

Inks

Bill Everett

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

romance

Characters

Chuck Evers (swimming instructor); Blanche (tennis instructor); Mr. Simmons (camp owner); Betty (counselor); Vivian Johnson (villain, swimming instructor)

Synopsis

A tennis instructor named Blanche, new to Camp Sundown, becomes the target of one of the swimming instructors simply because her fellow swimming instructor and supposed boy friend has a thing for Blanche.

Reprints

• from Personal Love (Eastern Color, 1950 series) #24 (November 1953)

Keywords

Camp Sundown

Indexer Notes

Everett credits from Apeldoorn and Vadeboncoeur, but disputed by Michael Vassallo.

Not Quite Yellow (Table of Contents: 50)

illustration / 1 page (report information)

Script

Joe Brennan

Pencils

Bill Everett (illustration)

Inks

Bill Everett (illustration)

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

From the pulp magazine War Stories #1. First page illustration only.

The Horror (Table of Contents: 51)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 3 pages (report information)

Script

Blake Bell

Pencils

Bill Everett

Inks

Bill Everett

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Hangman's House (Table of Contents: 52)

comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Bill Everett; Joe Maneely (page 1); ? (page 1)(see notes)

Inks

Bill Everett; Joe Maneely (page 1); ? (page 1)(see notes)

Colors

?

Letters

Bill Everett

Job Number

5492

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Ezekiel Zoras (17th Century hangman, flashback, also in spirit form); Robert Kinsman; Mona Vincent; Thomas Zane (villain, Boston student, death); The Master of Demons (villain)

Synopsis

A false friend invites his rival for the affections of a young lady up to the house owned by the Salem hangman for a week of rest although the house is supposed to be haunted. When they arrive, the man plans to murder his friend through the actions of the hangman's ghost, but he becomes impatient and seizes the rope from the ghost and attempts to strangle his rival himself. He gets caught in the rope as a fire breaks out and perishes.

Reprints

• from Suspense (Marvel, 1949 series) #5 (November 1950)

Keywords

Black Book of Salem

Indexer Notes

The image of the hangman on the right of the splash is a Joe Maneely stat taken from the cover; the rest of the splash appears to be drawn by another hand.

I Deal in Murder! (Table of Contents: 53)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Bill Everett ?

Pencils

Bill Everett

Inks

Bill Everett

Colors

?

Letters

Bill Everett

Job Number

7771

Genre

adventure; spy

Characters

Dr. Paul Marco (inventor); Dr. John Byron (death); Sue Byron (John's daughter); Doctor Rex [aka Sgt. Blue] (robot); Jacob Stalinov [aka Joseph Summers] (villain, former Communist Secret Policeman, death); un-named Politburo official (villain); Pietro (villain); Red (villain); Joseph Stalin (villain, image only)

Synopsis

A Soviet spy infilitrates a meeting at the U.S. War College where the panel is introduced to a scientist who has invented an army of mechanical men, electronically controlled, and able to speak in a limited fashion. The spy's job is to learn the secret behind the robots, if not from the inventor then from his mysterious assistant.

Reprints

• from Suspense (Marvel, 1949 series) #6 (January 1951)

Keywords

Moscow; Politburo

Indexer Notes

Anti-communism story.

Felix the Great! (Table of Contents: 54)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Bill Everett ?

Pencils

Bill Everett

Inks

Bill Everett

Colors

?

Letters

Bill Everett

Job Number

7762

Genre

adventure

Characters

Mr. Thorton (circus owner); Sandra (Felix's wife); Don (animal trainer, death); King (a lion); Rajah (a tiger); Tina (a black panther); Paul (circus clown, death); Felix (villain, animal trainer, death)

Synopsis

An ugly circus animal trainer with a lovely wife gets intensely jealous when she even looks at another man, so jealous that he wants to kill her when he learns she is leaving him, but fate turns the tables on him.

Reprints

• from Suspense (Marvel, 1949 series) #6 (January 1951)

Keywords

Thornton Brothers Circus

The Face of Death! (Table of Contents: 55)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Bill Everett

Inks

Bill Everett

Colors

?

Letters

Bill Everett

Job Number

9850

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Donald Drake (death); Hank Elliot; Marcia Lang [aka Death] (villain)

Synopsis

When the black death hits the town in which he lives, Donald decides to hole up in his home for the duration but thinks better of it when loneliness hits him hard. He and another friend decide to invite non-plague carriers to a special party, where they meet a beautiful girl. Soon Donald discovers that beauty is only skin deep.

Reprints

• from Adventures into Weird Worlds (Marvel, 1952 series) #4 (Spring 1952)

Keywords

Black Death

Indexer Notes

Information supplied by www.atlastales.com.

Don't Bury Me Deep! (Table of Contents: 56)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Bill Everett (signed)

Inks

Bill Everett (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

A-84

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

John Macomber (death); Charles Beecher (undertaker, death)

Synopsis

An undertaker, desperate to sell an expensive coffin, panics when the corpse turns out not to be dead and kills the man which accidentally leads to his own death.

Reprints

• from Adventures into Weird Worlds (Marvel, 1952 series) #5 (April 1952)

Keywords

Macombersville

[Journey Into Unknown Worlds #14] (Table of Contents: 57)

cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Bill Everett

Inks

Bill Everett

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

horror-suspense

Reprints

• from Journey into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1950 series) #14 (December 1952)

The Scarecrow (Table of Contents: 58)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Bill Everett (signed)

Inks

Bill Everett (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

Bill Everett

Job Number

B-185

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Henrietta Wilkens; Charlie Wilkens; a scarecrow (villain?); Mr. Droone (villain, mortgage holder, death)

Synopsis

A destitute couple, out of money and nearly out of hope, wish for a miracle to ease them out of their plight. When their fields are plowed and corn planted overnight, and a mysterious scarecrow appears on their property, their wish seems to have come true in more ways than one.

Reprints

• from Journey into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1950 series) #14 (December 1952)

The Crazy Car! (Table of Contents: 59)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Bill Everett (signed)

Inks

Bill Everett (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

Bill Everett

Job Number

F-274

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Stranger on the street (car engine inventor, death); Kurt Baxter (villain, death)

Synopsis

When a stranger approaches Karl Baxter on the street and invites him to take a test drive in his car, a car that runs on no fuel of any kind, Karl decides to kill the old man and figure out a way to duplicate the engine in the car so that he can make a fortune, or so he thinks.

Reprints

• from Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #20 (December 1954)

A Nightmare Pin-Up (Table of Contents: 60)

Graveghoul / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Bill Everett (signed)

Inks

Bill Everett (signed)

Letters

?

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Graveghoul

Reprints

• from Nightmare (Skywald, 1970 series) #1 (December 1970)

Nightmare Pin Up #2 (Table of Contents: 61)

illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Bill Everett (signed)

Inks

Bill Everett (signed)

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

The Gill Man [aka The Creature From the Black Lagoon]

Reprints

• from Nightmare (Skywald, 1970 series) #2 (February 1971)

A Nightmare Pin-Up #3 (Table of Contents: 62)

illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Bill Everett (signed)

Inks

Bill Everett (signed)

Genre

horror-suspense

Reprints

• from Nightmare (Skywald, 1970 series) #4 (June 1971)

The Man Who Stole Eternity (Table of Contents: 63)

comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

Gardner Fox (signed)

Pencils

Bill Everett (signed)

Inks

Bill Everett (signed)

Letters

Irv Watanabe

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Un-named man (death); un-named woman (villain, sorceress, the man's wife); Anothor (villain, evil spirit); Nixwit (villain, evil spirit); Abaddon (villain, evil spirit); Charlie Peace (villain, fence); Mike Mason (villain, thief)

Synopsis

A thief decides to strike it really big and knock over the Magic Museum, even though the theft earlier of some pearls led to a strange curse being placed upon him by a sorceress. She later demands that he steal a special elixir or be tormented by wicked spirits for the rest of his life. This he does, but the outcome is not what he expected.

Reprints

• from Psycho (Skywald, 1971 series) #3 (May 1971)

Keywords

Magic Museum

Psycho Presents the Heap (Table of Contents: 64)

illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Bill Everett (signed)

Inks

Bill Everett (signed)

Letters

?

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

The Heap

Reprints

• from Psycho (Skywald, 1971 series) #4 (September 1971)

A Psycho Scene (Table of Contents: 65)

Earth-Worm / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Bill Everett (signed)

Inks

Bill Everett (signed)

Letters

?

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Earth-Worm

Reprints

• from Psycho (Skywald, 1971 series) #5 (November 1971)

[Werewolf Pin-Up] (Table of Contents: 66)

illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Bill Everett (signed)

Inks

Bill Everett (signed)

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Werewolf

Reprints

• from Psycho (Skywald, 1971 series) #6 (May 1972)

Acknowledgments (Table of Contents: 67)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Script

Blake Bell

Pencils

Bill Everett (signed as E)

Inks

Bill Everett (signed as E)

Letters

typeset

Genre

humor; erotica

Reprints

• from Snafu (Marvel, 1955 series) #v2#2 (March 1956)

Indexer Notes

Features cartoon drawn by Everett of a foreign potentate reading a copy of "Girlie Pin-Ups", surrounded by 8 very scantily clad wives with expressions of disgust on their faces.

Everett signed this cartoon in an unusual way: "E Smokes Camels".