Lightning Comics #v2#6

(April 1942)

Battles the Eel (Table of Contents: 1)

Lash Lightning / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Script:

Abner Sundell ?

Pencils:

Jim Mooney

Inks:

Jim Mooney

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Lash Lightning [Robert Morgan]; The Eel [Professor Aqua] (villain)

Synopsis:

Billed as the "Human Fish", Professor Aqua was embittered by his life as a circus freak, so he becomes a criminal mastermind known as the Eel.

Indexer Notes

Script credit by Mark Carlson-Ghost in Alter Ego #144 (January, 2017), based on circumstantial evidence.

The Eel's Smuggling Operation (Table of Contents: 2)

The Raven / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script:

Robert Turner ?; Abner Sundell ?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Raven [Danny Dartin]; The Eel [Professor Aqua] (villain)

Indexer Notes

Turner script credit by Craig Delich, courtesy of the Who's Who. The Sundell credit by Mark Carlson-Ghost in Alter Ego #144 (January, 2017), based on circumstantial evidence.

[The Army gets Fumed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Doctor Nemesis / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Harry Anderson [as Anderson] (signed)

Inks:

Harry Anderson [as Anderson] (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Characters:

Doctor Nemesis

Indexer Notes

Prior art and script identification listed Murphy Anderson. His first comics work was in 1944, two years later.

[Museum artifacts go Missing] (Table of Contents: 4)

Marvo the Magician And Tito / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script:

Maurice Gutwirth ?

Pencils:

Maurice Gutwirth (signed)

Inks:

Maurice Gutwirth (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Marvo the Magician

["Cappie and Brask make their way through the Dingy...] (Table of Contents: 5)

Cappie Young / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Characters:

Cappie Young

Indexer Notes

Artist used Milt Caniff's Terry and the Pirates for artistic guidance.

Lippy Larue and his Gang (Table of Contents: 6)

Hap Hazard / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Characters:

Hap Hazard

Grubstake to Hades (Table of Contents: 7)

Bid Patton / text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script:

Clint Douglas (credited)

Letters:

Typeset

Characters:

Bid Patton

[The Lane Expedition] (Table of Contents: 8)

Congo Jack / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script:

Mark Schneider ?

Pencils:

Mark Schneider [as Schneider] (signed)

Inks:

Mark Schneider [as Schneider] (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Congo Jack