Archie's Super Hero Comics Digest Magazine #2

(1979)

[Kip- you're a good cop...] (Table of Contents: 1)

The Black Hood / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script:

Gray Morrow

Pencils:

Gray Morrow

Inks:

Gray Morrow

Colors:

?

Letters:

Gray Morrow

Characters:

Black Hood (origin)

Indexer Notes

Traces the Black Hood line back through history and the various crime fighters in the Burland line. Heavy Metal, in 1979, printed a re-worked version of the story. This featured a female protagonist, Stingaree.

The Menace of the Micro Men (Table of Contents: 2)

The Shield / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script:

Joe Simon ?; Jack Kirby ?

Pencils:

Joe Simon; Jack Kirby

Inks:

Joe Simon; Jack Kirby

Colors:

?

Letters:

Joe Rosen

Genre:

superhero

Reprints:

• from The Double Life of Private Strong (Archie, 1959 series) #1 (June 1959)

The Lady and the Monster (Table of Contents: 3)

The Fly / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Script:

Robert Bernstein

Pencils:

John Rosenberger

Inks:

John Rosenberger

Colors:

?

Letters:

John Duffy

Characters:

Kim Brand [later Fly-Girl] (introduction)

Reprints:

• from Adventures of The Fly (Archie, 1960 series) #13 (July 1961)

The Ultimate Power (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script:

Wally Wood ?

Pencils:

Wally Wood (signed)

Inks:

Wally Wood (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

fantasy-supernatural

Characters:

Nimrod; Mog (demon); Endora

Reprints:

• in Basically Strange (JC Comics, 1982 series) #1 (November 1982)

Keywords:

magic

The Death Ray from Space (Table of Contents: 5)

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

Script:

Robert Bernstein

Pencils:

John Rosenberger

Inks:

John Rosenberger

Colors:

?

Letters:

John Duffy

Reprints:

• from Adventures of the Jaguar (Archie, 1961 series) #5 (March 1962)

The Nine Lives of Falseface (Table of Contents: 6)

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

Script:

Jerry Siegel

Pencils:

Paul Reinman

Inks:

Joe Giella; Frank Giacoia ?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Reprints:

• from Mighty Comics (Archie, 1966 series) #45 (April 1967)

Superteen Strikes Again (Table of Contents: 7)

Superteen / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script:

Frank Doyle

Pencils:

Dan DeCarlo

Inks:

Vincent DeCarlo

Colors:

?

Letters:

Vincent DeCarlo

Genre:

superhero; teen

Characters:

Superteen [Betty Cooper]; Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge

Synopsis:

Superteen uses her powers to save Archie and Veronica from Communist spies.

Reprints:

• from Betty and Me (Archie, 1965 series) #3 (August 1966)

Black Hood Hits a Sour Note (Table of Contents: 8)

Black Hood / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script:

Robin Snyder; Marv Channing

Pencils:

Al McWilliams

Inks:

Al McWilliams

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Reprints:

• in The Black Hood (Archie, 1983 series) #1 (June 1983)
• in Blue Ribbon Comics (Archie, 1983 series) #8 (May 1984) [similar to a story in Heavy Metal introducing a heroine called Stingaree (6/1979)]
which is reprinted
• in New Crusaders (Archie, 2012 series) #5 (February 2013)
• in New Crusaders: Legacy (Archie, 2013 series) ([July] 2013)
• in The Black Hood Season 2 (Archie, 2016 series) #2 (February 2017)
• in The Black Hood Season 2 (Archie, 2016 series) #3 (April 2017)

The Awesome Bravo (Table of Contents: 9)

Steel Sterling / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script:

Jerry Siegel

Pencils:

Paul Reinman

Inks:

Joe Giella; Frank Giacoia ?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Reprints:

• from Mighty Comics (Archie, 1966 series) #44 (March 1967)

Uglyman's Ugliest Plot (Table of Contents: 10)

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

Script:

Jerry Siegel

Pencils:

Paul Reinman

Inks:

Paul Reinman ?

Colors:

?

Letters:

Sam Rosen

Reprints:

• from Mighty Comics (Archie, 1966 series) #40 (November 1966)

The Tarantula's Trap (Table of Contents: 11)

Pureheart the Powerful / comic story / 11 pages (report information)

Script:

Frank Doyle

Pencils:

Bill Vigoda ?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Characters:

Evilheart [Reggie Mantle]; Captain Pureheart [Archie Andrews]; Tarantula; Veronica Lodge

Synopsis:

Evilheart is more interested in keeping Captain Pureheart from capturing the Tarantula than he is in defeating the villain himself.

Reprints:

• from Reggie and Me (Archie, 1966 series) #23 (April 1967)

Time Twist (Table of Contents: 12)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script:

Tom DeFalco

Pencils:

Chic Stone

Inks:

Chic Stone

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Characters:

Vampire; Victor;

Synopsis:

A vampire travels in time to the future and finds an unpleasant surprise.

Reprints:

• in The Fly (Archie, 1983 series) #8 (August 1984)

Keywords:

robots; time travel; vampires

The Gasser Attacks (Table of Contents: 13)

The Fox / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Script:

Jerry Siegel

Pencils:

Paul Reinman

Inks:

Chic Stone

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Reprints:

• from Mighty Comics (Archie, 1966 series) #49 (August 1967)

Life's Not Like a Comic Book (Table of Contents: 14)

The Black Hood / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script:

Neal Adams; Gray Morrow (plot)

Pencils:

Neal Adams

Inks:

Dick Giordano

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Reprints:

• in JCP Features [JCP Features the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents] (JC Comics, 1981 series) #1 (December 1981)
• in Blue Ribbon Comics (Archie, 1983 series) #8 (May 1984)

The Ultrasonic Spies (Table of Contents: 15)

The Shield / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script:

Joe Simon ?; Jack Kirby ?

Pencils:

Jack Kirby

Inks:

Joe Simon ?

Colors:

?

Letters:

Howard Ferguson

Genre:

superhero

Reprints:

• from The Double Life of Private Strong (Archie, 1959 series) #2 (August 1959)

The Beast in the Forest (Table of Contents: 16)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script:

Tom DeFalco

Pencils:

Jesse Santos

Inks:

Jesse Santos

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Characters:

Euryleda (dryad); Tanatalus; Mierdo (faun); centaurs

Keywords:

Trojan War

A Real Hot Talent (Table of Contents: 17)

Chilling Adventures in Sorcery / text story / 1 page (report information)

Script:

?

Letters:

typeset

Reprints:

• from Chilling Adventures in Sorcery as Told by Sabrina (Archie, 1972 series) #1 (September 1972)

Keywords:

fire; magic

The Fly Meets the Cat Girl (Table of Contents: 18)

The Fly / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script:

Robert Bernstein

Pencils:

John Giunta

Inks:

John Giunta

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Characters:

Cat Girl (introduction)

Reprints:

• from Adventures of The Fly (Archie, 1960 series) #9 (November 1960)

It's Murder to Beat the Odds (Table of Contents: 19)

The Black Hood / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script:

Marv Channing

Pencils:

Al McWilliams

Inks:

Al McWilliams

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Reprints:

• in Blue Ribbon Comics (Archie, 1983 series) #8 (May 1984)