Minute Man #1

([May 14] 1941)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

[The Redemption of Major Von Hartz] (Table of Contents: 2)

Minute Man / comic story / 16 pages (report information)

Script

Otto Binder ?

Pencils

Charles Sultan

Inks

Charles Sultan

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Minute Man [Jack Weston]; Army General Milton; Major Hart [a.k.a. Major von Hartz]; Major Hart's father; Nazi foreign agents (villains)

Synopsis

Major Hart wants to put his past of spying for Nazi Germany behind him, but foreign agents try to persuade him otherwise by kidnapping his father and forcing him to do anything he can to embarrass America's army. His first assignment is to betray Fort Stonewall. Minute Man tells the major to go along with their plans while he attempts to rescue the soldier's father.

Reprints

• in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #86

Indexer Notes

Art and script credits from Bill Black and Craig Delich 2012-1-1.

No Rest for Minute Man (Table of Contents: 3)

Minute Man / comic story / 14 pages (report information)

Script

Otto Binder ?

Pencils

Charles Sultan

Inks

Charles Sultan

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Minute Man [Jack Weston]; Gloria (Shuker's secretary); Shuker (villain, crooked political boss); Nazi agents (villains, some die)

Synopsis

Minute Man saves a young lad from Nazi agents while aboard a train and hears from the lad that a crooked political boss named Shuker is involved with those same agents who plan to use devious means for him to be elected first, governor of the state, then dictator. What Shuker doesn't know is that those same agents plan to control the government themselves and use Shuker only as a figure head.

Reprints

• in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #86

Indexer Notes

Script and artist credits from Bill Black and Craig Delich 2012-1-1.

Triumph of Time (Table of Contents: 4)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Gerry de la Ree (as Jerry de la Ree) (signed)

Pencils

? (spot illustration)

Inks

? (spot illustration)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

crime

Characters

Danny O'Grady (rookie policeman); Professor Ekstrom; Red Kozlik (villain, death)

Synopsis

Following Public Enemy Number Three, Red Kozlik, to Ekstrom Laboratories, New York rookie policeman O'Grady comes face to face with Ekstrom, who is being held at gun point by the nefarious criminal. Kozlik insists that the professor use his newly invented time machine to send Kozlik back to August 18, 1921. The professor does, but Kozlik discovers that fate has a way of settling old scores.

Reprints

• in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #86

Indexer Notes

The spelling of writer de la Ree's first name as Jerry, instead of Gerry, was a Fawcett letterer's mistake and not a pseudonym

[Illyria, Queen of Spies] (Table of Contents: 5)

Minute Man / comic story / 15 pages (report information)

Script

Otto Binder ?

Pencils

Charles Sultan

Inks

Charles Sultan

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Minute Man [Jack Weston]; General Milton; Lady Illyria (villain, queen of foreign spies)

Synopsis

Jack Weston is sent to Barracoon, an island in the Gulf of Mexico that the U.S. government has just purchased for use as a naval base. However, Minute Man must contend with Illyria and her agents who plan to stop the building of the base by stirring up the ancient voodoo deviltry that the island is noted for.

Reprints

• in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #86

Indexer Notes

Script and artist credits from Bill Black and Craig Delich 2012-1-1.

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

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

[The Servants of Korozan] (Table of Contents: 7)

Minute Man / comic story / 15 pages (report information)

Script

Otto Binder ?

Pencils

Charles Sultan

Inks

Charles Sultan

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Minute Man [Jack Weston]; Semator Barr; Judy Barr (daughter of Senator Barr); Korozan (villain, introduction, death); Japanese agents (villains)

Synopsis

Jack Weston is arrested following the disappearance of Senator Barr's daughter, who was actually kidnapped by Japanese foreign agents, hoping to induce her famous father to quit his insistence that America build up stronger defenses.

Reprints

• in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #86

Indexer Notes

Writer and artist credits from Bill Black and Craig Delich 2012-1-1.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 8) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)