(May 2000)
James Van Hise,
2000 Series
- Price
- 9.95 USD
- Pages
- 132
- Indicia Frequency
- three times a year
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- ?
- Editing
- James Van Hise (editor, publisher)
Issue Notes
Cover title is "The Rocket's Blast and the Comicollector." Articles on Steve Ditko in the 1950s, The E.C. Fanzines: The Second Generation, The Art of Comics (by Gil Kane), Orson Welles: Pulp Writer, and Highlights on the Shadow: Ed Cartier. Back cover is color reprint of Weird Tales (July 1936) by Margaret Brundage.
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
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from Unusual Tales (Charlton, 1955 series) #6 (February 1957) [black and white]
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The individual issues of this series are each less than 50% comics. Only comics sequences are indexed and cover scans are accepted only if the issue has 10% indexed comics content.
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko (signed as Ditko)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko (signed as Ditko)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hello, Earth... I've landed safely...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- from Space Adventures (Charlton, 1952 series) #12 (August 1954) [new logo]
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- Keywords
- Bug-Eyed Monster; Damsel in distress
Indexer Notes
Cover design by Jim Keegan.
Sea of Blood
comic story / 12 pages
- Genre
- history; war
- Synopsis
- Account of Allied air power devastating a Japanese convoy attempting to land troops and supplies at Lae, New Guinea, during World War II.
- Keywords
- airplanes; Australians; B-17; B-24; B-25; destroyers; Japanese; Navy; New Guinea; P-38; P.T. boats; World War II
Indexer Notes
Pages 70-81. Story is copyright 1996, four years before publication here, so may have been printed somewhere else earlier.
[no title indexed]
Flash Gordon / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Alex Raymond (signed)
- Inks
- Alex Raymond (signed)
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Flash Gordon; Dale Arden; Khan; Azura
- Synopsis
- Flash wants to go with Khan to the land of the Magic Men, but Dale protests. Azura, the Witch Queen, interrupts the discussion.
- Reprints
- from Flash Gordon Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1935-04-21
Thwarted Rescue
Tarzan / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Hal Foster (signed)
- Inks
- Hal Foster (signed)
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- adventure; jungle
- Characters
- Tarzan; Sybil; Garu
- Synopsis
- Garu the Witch-Doctor and his men capture Tarzan and Sybil and plan to burn them at the stake.
- Reprints
- from Tarzan (United Feature Syndicate) Sunday #214, 1935-04-14
[no title indexed]
Drago / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Burne Hogarth ?
- Pencils
- Burne Hogarth (signed as Hogarth)
- Inks
- Burne Hogarth (signed as Hogarth)
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Drago; Baron Zodiac
- Synopsis
- Drago listens as Baron Zodiac explains his plans to test an atomic bomb on Bikini Atoll.
- Reprints
- from Drago (New York Post) Sunday 1946-06-23
[no title indexed]
Tarzan / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- adventure; jungle
- Characters
- Tarzan; Totama
- Synopsis
- Tarzan fights Totama the witch-doctor, then a tiger joins the fray.
- Reprints
- from Tarzan (United Features Syndicate) Sunday #839, 1949-03-06
[no title indexed]
Flash Gordon / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Alex Raymond (signed)
- Inks
- Alex Raymond (signed)
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Flash Gordon; Dale Arden; Dr. Zarkov
- Synopsis
- Flash, Dale, and Zarkov are trapped on a conveyor belt leading to a blast furnace.
- Reprints
- from Flash Gordon (King Features Syndicate) Sunday 1940-07-28
Indexer Notes
with Jungle Jim topper. No logos.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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1.
["Hello, Earth... I've landed safely..."]
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2.
Sea of Blood
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3.
[no title indexed]
Flash Gordon -
4.
Thwarted Rescue
Tarzan -
5.
[no title indexed]
Drago -
6.
[no title indexed]
Tarzan -
7.
[no title indexed]
Flash Gordon
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- mcomics
- Merlin Haas
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