(November 1959)
Archie,
1959 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1959-09-08
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Radio Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
Archie Adventure Series
- Editing
- John Goldwater
Issue Notes
On sale date confirmed from the publication date reported to the U.S. Copyright Office found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Volume 14, Part 1, Number 1, Periodicals, January-June 1960. Class B periodical. Copyright registration number B826394.
[no title indexed]
The Fly / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Reprints
-
in The Adventures of the Fly (Archie, 2004 series) #1 (2004) -
in The Best of Simon and Kirby (Titan, 2009 series) (May 2009)
-
![Cover Thumbnail for The Fly [Adventures of the Fly] (Archie, 1959 series) #3](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/33/w200/33119.jpg?-6076778094969071110)
The Overblown Marshal of Spire City
The Fly / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Joe Simon ?
- Pencils
- Jack Davis; Joe Simon (see notes)
- Inks
- Joe Simon ?; Jack Davis ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Howard Ferguson
- Genre
- superhero
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Possible Simon inks and/or alterations per Nick Caputo, November 2016.
How An Orphan Boy Became the Fly
The Fly / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Contains a house ad for The Double Life of Private Strong.
The House of Solid Nothing
The Fly / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Reprints
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #93
- in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #32 (October 1978)
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #237 ([circa 1986 - 1987])
- in The Adventures of the Fly (Archie, 2004 series) #1 (2004)
-
The 20 Ton Man
The Fly / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Reprints
- in Uncanny Tales (Alan Class, 1963 series) #51, #95 ([circa 1973 - 1974]), #121 ([circa 1976 - 1977]), #121 ([circa 1976 - 1977])
- in Blue Ribbon Comics (Archie, 1983 series) #10 (July 1984)
-
The Justice of Chen Fang
The Fly / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Joe Simon ?
- Pencils
- Paul Reinman; Joe Simon (see notes)
- Inks
- Paul Reinman ?; Joe Simon ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Marty Epp ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Reprints
- in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #51, #94 ([circa 1973 - 1974]), #126 ([circa 1977 - 1978])
-
in Sunny Sun (Mon Journal, 1977 series) #20 (septembre 1978) - in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #159 ([circa 1982 - 1983])
-
Indexer Notes
Simon redrew some of the Fly/Tommy Troy figures and may have inked the story. Info per Nick Caputo, January 2018.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
The Fly -
1.
The Overblown Marshal of Spire City
The Fly -
2.
How An Orphan Boy Became the Fly
The Fly -
3.
The House of Solid Nothing
The Fly -
4.
The 20 Ton Man
The Fly -
5.
Loud and Clear
-
6.
Tommy Troy Teaches Judo
-
7.
The Justice of Chen Fang
The Fly
This issue was modified by, among others
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Doug Brain
- Nick Caputo
- Peter Croome
- Gregory Fischer
- Merlin Haas
- Karsten S.
- Per Sandell
- Jim Van Dore
- Jim Walls
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