Forbidden Worlds
#125
(January-February 1965)
American Comics Group,
1951 Series
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly July, August, September, October; bi-monthly Jan.-Feb., March-April, May-June, Nov.-Dec.
- On-sale Date
- 1964-10-29
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Best Syndicated Features Inc.
- Brand
-
American Comics Group ACG
- Editing
- Richard Hughes [as Richard E. Hughes] (Editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from 1964 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
Magicman!
Magicman / cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Kurt Schaffenberger (signed as Pete Costanza)
- Inks
- Kurt Schaffenberger (signed as Pete Costanza)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Look out! It's Magicman!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Magicman
- Reprints
-
in Magicman Archives (Dark Horse, 2008 series) (December 2008)
-
Indexer Notes
According to Schaffenberger in a 1998 letter, many covers at ACG were penciled and inked by him, but signed by Pete Costanza because DC editor Mort Weisinger (for whom Schaffenberger worked on the Superman Family titles at that time) did not want him drawing superhero covers for other companies.
Magicman!
Magicman / comic story / 12 pages
- Script
- Richard Hughes (credited as Zev Zimmer)
- Pencils
- Pete Costanza
- Inks
- Pete Costanza
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- He's here...the mighty man who dares the impossible!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Magicman [Tom Cargill]; Cagliostro (flashback); Senator Loring
- Synopsis
- Magicman is the immortal son of the wizard Cagliostro. In the present day he joins the Army to fight in Viet Nam as PFC Tom Cargill and decides to use his magical abilities secretly as Magicman.
- Reprints
in How to Stay Healthy!
Herbie / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- This is my great new magazine, "Herbie".
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Herbie Popnecker
Indexer Notes
Promotional ad in comic strip form.
[no title indexed]
From Your Editor- To You! / letters page / 2 pages
- Script
- Richard Hughes ?
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Letters submitted by Don Markstein, Janet Renner, Susan Newton, Lee Whittlesey, Eugene J. Rule, Juan Ortiz, and Mario Pagalocci.
Missing: Frederick Forbes!
comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Ladies and gentlemen, as editor of this magazine,
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Richard E. Hughes (host); Frederick Forbes; Eddie Forbes
- Synopsis
- Banker Frederick Forbes vanished in 1867 with a great amount of the townspeoples' money. Nearly a hundred years later, his great-grandson agrees to undergo hypnosis to solve the mystery, and learns that it was accidental death, not villainy, that caused Forbes to disappear, and the money is finally recovered.
- Reprints
- from Adventures into the Unknown (American Comics Group, 1948 series) #92 (January 1958) [retitled]
-
in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #19 (1967?) [Black and white], #107 ([circa 1974 - 1975]), #156 ([circa 1981 - 1982]) - in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #233 ([circa 1987 - 1988])
-
Indexer Notes
Original title: "Annals of the Occult."
No Good to the World!
comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Richard Hughes (credited as Zev Zimmer)
- Pencils
- George Wilhelms
- Inks
- George Wilhelms
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- He wasn't a great fighter, a great thinker or a great leader ---
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Willie Stover; Maratta
- Synopsis
- Willie Stover and his pet frog Oswald accidentally foil an invasion from a microscopic world while being held after school for detention.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Magicman!
Magicman -
1.
Magicman!
Magicman -
2.
How to Stay Healthy!
Herbie -
3.
[no title indexed]
From Your Editor- To You! -
4.
Missing: Frederick Forbes!
-
5.
No Good to the World!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Dwayne Best
- Steve Coates
- Gary Henderson
- Paul Lefebvre
- Lou Mazzella
- Stephen Mitchell
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Van Dore
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