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 (Archie, 2016 series) #2 (February 2017)
• in The Black Hood (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)