Master Comics
#22
(January 1942)
Fawcett,
1940 Series
- Volume
- 4
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1941-12-05
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Fawcett Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
A Fawcett Publication [Triangle]
- Editing
- France Herron?
Issue Notes
The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1942, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 1.
The Wax Death!
Bulletman / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Bulletman [Jim Barr]; Susan Kent [Bulletgirl]; Captain Nazi [Albrecht Krieger]; Dr. Eternity
- Reprints
The Wax Death
Bulletman / comic story / 14.66 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Bulletman [Jim Barr]; Susan Kent [Bulletgirl]; Sgt. Kent; Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Sir Henry Eliot (introduction, death); Sir Henry Welch (introduction); Peter Costo (a wax figure); Sir Clarence Beck (a wax figure); Irwin Wile (a wax figure); Captain Nazi [Albrecht Krieger] (villain); Dr. Eternity (villain, introduction)
- Synopsis
- Bulletman vows to stop Dr. Eternity, who is determined to eliminate ten different people through his dreaded wax death and later teams with Captain Marvel Jr. to track down both Eternity and Captain Nazi.
- Reprints
-
in The Shazam! Archives (DC, 1992 series) #4 (2003 [April 2004])
-
Indexer Notes
Title taken from the cover. Story continued from Whiz Comics (Fawcett, 1940 series) #25 (December 1941).
The last 1/3 of page 15 is an illustrated advertisement for the next issue of Bulletman Comics (#3).
The Hawk
Minute Man / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Minute Man [Jack Weston]; The Hawk (first appearance; villain)
[The Return of the Little Men]
El Carim / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- El Carim; The Little Men From the Mountain
[Salty Bill and the Gold Mine]
Buck Jones / comic story / 7 pages
- Feature Logo
- Buck Jones, Frontier Marshal
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Buck Jones; Silver (horse); Mesquite Mike (deputy); Susan Lee; Salty Bill (grandpa)
- Synopsis
- Buck and Mike help a lady in distress cross the desert using the wind to move her wagon.
Indexer Notes
Carlson can be recognized by his horses with rather long, narrow tapering heads and especially by his way of drawing the legs of running horses, with outstretched frontlegs, almost like a rocking horse.
[The End of King Leon]
Captain Venture and the Planet Princess / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- V: King Leon (D)
Indexer Notes
last appearance. Art credits from Jack Butterworth, owner of a page of original art from the story, via the GCD Error List, 8 May 2005. The original indexer credited the art to Rafael Astarita ?.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
The Wax Death!
Bulletman -
1.
The Wax Death
Bulletman -
2.
The Hawk
Minute Man -
3.
[The Return of the Little Men]
El Carim -
4.
Flying Murder
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5.
[Salty Bill and the Gold Mine]
Buck Jones -
6.
[Sue Belle, Fight Fixer]
Companions Three -
7.
[The End of King Leon]
Captain Venture and the Planet Princess -
8.
[The Tomb of Tut Ankhara]
Zoro, the Mystery Man
This issue was modified by, among others
- Steinar Ådland
- Craig Delich
- Gregory Fischer
- Del Gruber
- Bob Hughes
- Clint Maxwell
- Tony R. Rose
- Jim Stangas
- Jim Van Dore
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