Lightning Comics
#v2#1
(June 1941)
Ace Magazines,
1940 Series
- Volume
- 2
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1941-04-02
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Ace Magazines Inc.
- Brand
-
An Ace Magazine
- Editing
- Aaron A. Wyn
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 2. Class B periodical. Copyright registration number B 499052.
[no title indexed]
Flash Lightning / comic story / 13 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Lightning received the gift of speed, strength and power...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Flash Lightning [Robert Morgan]; Amy Lane (scientist); The Old Man of the Pyramids; The Mastermind (villain); The Mummy [Professor Vatz] (villain, death)
- Synopsis
- The Mastermind constructs a weird machine in a castle owned by scientist Amy Lane, a machine that attracts lightning into the room it's in and from which the Mastermind can absorb lightning and gain powers similar to those of Flash Lightning. Then he visits the Mummy at a hospital and convinces him to provide him with the villain's radium protective coating and tell him how to use it so that he can protect himself from bullets and other weapons.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Storm Mountain
in Indexer Notes
Mastermind apparently dies at the end of this story, but returns in the next two issues.
Inks credit from article in Alter Ego #133 (June, 2015).
[no title indexed]
The Raven / comic story / 10 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Like an avenging angel, the Raven, swoops down upon underworld haunts...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Raven [Detective Sgt. Danny Dartin]; Lola Lash (Danny's fiancée); Police Chief Lash (Lola's father); un-named Police Commissioner; Mr. Calhoun (villain, President of the Chasmber of Commerce); Mike (villain)
Indexer Notes
While eating at an lunch wagon, Danny sees people going in and out of a back room, and figures that something illicit is going on. Further investigation uncovers a secret gambling den, which he soon rounds up and has jailed.
[no title indexed]
Doctor Nemesis Rx / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Young Dr. Jim Bradley, hospital interne, has discovered a truth serum which...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Dr. Nemesis [Dr. Jim Bradley]; Mike Johnson (construction foreman); Jake (ambulance driver); Dr. Fowler (surgeon); Tom (small boy); Max McNulty (villain, contractor, death); Al Mirch (villain, McNulty's business partner)
- Synopsis
- Dr. Nemesis takes on a pair of corrupt building contractors who are using inferior materials in their building projects, causing buildings to collapse unexpectedly.
[no title indexed]
Marvo the Magician and Tito / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Marvo... magician and master of illusions, while traveling through the country in search of adventure...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Marvo; Tito (a monkey); June Reeves (manager of a charity vaudeville show); Squire Baxter (villain); Joe (villain); Spike (villain)
Indexer Notes
While having a flat tire repaired in Pleasantville, Marvo decides to take in a vaudeville show, whose gate receipts go to an orphan's home. When thugs ruin the show by tossing vegetables at the entertainers, Marvo decides to put on his own show!
I Knew Buffalo Bill
text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- biography; western-frontier
- Characters
- Buffalo Bill Cody (death); Mr. Cody (Buffalo Bill's father, death); Kit Carson; President Abraham Lincoln; Lew Simpson; Jim "Wild Bill" Hickok (death); J. B. Studley (actor); Ned Buntline; Bill Mulligan (buffalo hunter); Billy Comstock; Texas Jack Omohundro; Frank Mordaunt (actor); Mlle. Morlacchi (actress); Harry Mainhall (actor); Jennie Fisher (actress); Lizzie Safford (actress); Eliza Hudson (actress); J. V. Arlington (actor); Major John Burke (Bill Cody's press agent); Mrs. Lew Decker (Bill Cody's sister); Chief Yellow Hand (villain, death)
- Synopsis
- Detailed biography of Buffalo Bill Cody.
[no title indexed]
Congo Jack / comic story / 10 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- In the African Congo, earth suddenly explodes...
- Genre
- jungle; science fiction
- Characters
- Congo Jack; Clem Jones (Jack's friend); the Molemen [Sir Lugi; un-named others] (villains, green men from the bowels of the Earth); Queen Moletta (villain, Molemen's leader)
- Synopsis
- In the African Congo, weirdly garbed green invaders burst forth on the scene, killing local natives. One of the escapees alerts Jack and Clem of the danger, and both go to investigate.
[no title indexed]
Hap Hazard / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Here's the cigars and change of the twenty bucks, chief...
- Genre
- adventure; humor
- Characters
- Hap Hazard (copy boy of the Daily Star); un-named Daily Star City Editor; un-named store clerk; un-named boss of the counterfeiters (villain); Bugs (villain)
- Synopsis
- Hap goes down to a local store to buy cigars for his editor, and, when he returns and gives his boss the cigars and change, he is told that one of the bills is counterfeit. Since the city is being flooded with such bills, Hap is told to go back to the store and get a real bill to replace it. When he does, he sees the girl clerk being kidnapped.
- Keywords
- Daily Star
[no title indexed]
Whiz Wilson / comic story / 7 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- One day Whiz Wilson sets the dials of his futuroscope to take him to the planet Mongo, in the year 2300...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Whiz Wilson; Professor Morrow (visiting Earthman); Ellen Morrow (his daughter); the Mongolians; the Zanians (villains)
- Synopsis
- Whiz sets his Futuroscope to the year of 2300 and is transported to the Planet Mongo, where the four-armed Mongolians consider him, a Professor and his daughter to be their enemies. However, when a balloon corps from an enemy planet attacks, Whiz and company help to overcome them and save Mongo.
- Keywords
- Futuroscope; Planet of Mongo; Planet of Zania
Indexer Notes
Art credits per Who's Who, added by Craig Delich 2012-9-23.
The Big Reward
promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Jack Alderman (signed as Jack Alderman)
- Inks
- Jack Alderman (signed as Jack Alderman)
- Letters
- ?
- Synopsis
- The lure of being able to read a copy of Super-Mystery Comics encourages a boxer to win his fight.
Indexer Notes
A comics form promo for Super-Mystery Comics.
Located on.inside rear cover.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Flash Lightning -
1.
["Lightning received the gift of speed, strength and power..."]
Flash Lightning -
2.
["Like an avenging angel, the Raven, swoops down upon underworld haunts..."]
The Raven -
3.
["Young Dr. Jim Bradley, hospital interne, has discovered a truth serum which..."]
Doctor Nemesis Rx -
4.
["Marvo... magician and master of illusions, while traveling through the country in search of adventure..."]
Marvo the Magician and Tito -
5.
I Knew Buffalo Bill
-
6.
["In the African Congo, earth suddenly explodes..."]
Congo Jack -
7.
["Here's the cigars and change of the twenty bucks, chief..."]
Hap Hazard -
8.
["One day Whiz Wilson sets the dials of his futuroscope to take him to the planet Mongo, in the year 2300..."]
Whiz Wilson -
9.
The Big Reward
This issue was modified by, among others
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Craig Delich
- Gregory Fischer
- Jochen G.
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Steven Rowe
- Tim Tjarks
- Henry Steele, Hames Ware, Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. (R.I.P.)
- Jim Van Dore
- Len Wolinsky
- Tom Zsolt
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