Lightning Comics
#v1#5
(February 1941)
Ace Magazines,
1940 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1941-01-03
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Ace Magazines Inc.
- Brand
-
An Ace Magazine
- Editing
- A. A. Wyn (credited as Aaron A. Wyn) (editor, managing editor, business manager, publisher)
Issue Notes
On sale date from the publication date as submitted to the U.S. Copyright Office found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1941, New Series, Volume 36, Number 1. Class B periodical. Copyright registration number B 485140.
[The Mummy]
Flash Lightning / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Jim Mooney (signed)
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
[no title indexed]
Lash Lightning / comic story / 15 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Jim Mooney (signed as Mooney)
- Inks
- Jim Mooney (signed as Mooney)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The old man of the pyramid has endowed Flash Lightning with amazing speed, power and strength...
- Feature Logo
- Flash Lightning
- Genre
- superhero
- Synopsis
- Flash battles evil Prof. Vatz alias "The Mummy".
Indexer Notes
Per information from a NY Superior Court hearingin December 1941, Ace art director, Fred Gardener, stated on record that James "Jim" Mooney drew this story. Mooney actually signs his name in the first panel of page five.
[no title indexed]
The Raven / comic story / 12 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Beloved by the poor and oppressed, hated by the underworld and wanted by the police...
- Genre
- crime; superhero
[no title indexed]
Hap Hazard / comic story / 5.75 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Jack Alderman (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Alderman (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hap Hazard, ambitious young copy boy of the Daily Star, mixes it with hatchet men and murderers...
- Genre
- humor; superhero; adventure
- Reprints
-
in Hap Hazard Comics (Ace Magazines, 1944 series) #2 (Autumn 1944)
-
Indexer Notes
The fourth and final tier of the last page consists of the Statement of Ownership.
[no title indexed]
Marvo the Magician / comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Jack Binder (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Binder (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Marvo and his pet monkey, Tito, roam the country in search of adventure...
- Genre
- superhero
[no title indexed]
Ace McCoy / comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Maurice Gutwirth (signed)
- Inks
- Maurice Gutwirth (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Ace McCoy and his loyal mechanic-partner, Bill Regan, [...] have been hired to carry 100.000 dollars ransom money...
- Genre
- adventure
Indexer Notes
last appearance
[no title indexed]
Whiz Wilson / comic story / 9 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Whiz Wilson, young scientist, with the aid of a "futuroscope" which he invented, can project himself to any place in the world at any time in the future...
- Genre
- science fiction
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[The Mummy]
Flash Lightning -
1.
["The old man of the pyramid has endowed Flash Lightning with amazing speed, power and strength..."]
Lash Lightning -
2.
["Beloved by the poor and oppressed, hated by the underworld and wanted by the police..."]
The Raven -
3.
["Hap Hazard, ambitious young copy boy of the Daily Star, mixes it with hatchet men and murderers..."]
Hap Hazard -
4.
[no title indexed]
-
5.
["Marvo and his pet monkey, Tito, roam the country in search of adventure..."]
Marvo the Magician -
6.
["Ace McCoy and his loyal mechanic-partner, Bill Regan, [...] have been hired to carry 100.000 dollars ransom money..."]
Ace McCoy -
7.
Brother of Doom
-
8.
["Whiz Wilson, young scientist, with the aid of a "futuroscope" which he invented, can project himself to any place in the world at any time in the future..."]
Whiz Wilson
This issue was modified by, among others
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Keith Chandler
- Tillmann Courth
- Gregory Fischer
- Jochen G.
- Edgar Loftin
- Jim Van Dore
- David Wilt
- Len Wolinsky
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