Cat-Man Comics #v2#10 (23)

(March 1944)

New... Excitingly Different (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

The Cat-Man and the Kitten / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Don Rico (signed)

Inks

Don Rico (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Down through the ages have come the dreaded ravages of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse...

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Cat-Man [David Merrywether]; The Kitten [Katie Conn]; Colonel Barnes; Adolf Hitler (villain); Dr. Grotz (villain, scientist); The Four Horsemen of Doom [war; famine; death; pestilence] (villains, all die); the Nazis (villain)

Synopsis

Captain Merrywether volunteers to go into the occupied nations to battle the Four Horsemen of Doom, sent there by Adolf Hitler in order to ravage, murder, loot and destroy, all to let the peasant swine know the real glory of the New Order.

Reprints

• in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #44 ([January 2004])
• in Golden-Age Greats Spotlight (AC, 2003 series) #9 - Cat-Man and Kitten (2012)

Fate Turns the Combination (Table of Contents: 3)

The Deacon and Mickey / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Jack Grogan (signed)

Pencils

Jack Alderman (signed)

Inks

Jack Alderman (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

crime

Characters

The Deacon [Dean Denton]; Mickey

Firebrand of Disaster! (Table of Contents: 4)

Blackout / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Robert Brice ?

Inks

Robert Brice ?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

aviation

Characters

Blackout [Jack Wayne]; Hans (Blackout's assistant); Captain Green (British POW); Adolf Hitler (villain); Reichsmarshall Herman Göring (villain); Firemaster [Von Flamm] (villain, death); Baroness Brunhilde (villain, mention only)

Synopsis

Göring convinces Hitler to give a man in an insane asylum a chance to build a secret weapon to be used against the Allies, especially since the war is not going well for the Nazis. The weapon is the Liquid Fire Stream, which can be used to envelop enemy aircraft and destroy them. Although Blackout is told about this, to his horror he discovers that the weapon will be tested on an unsuspecting British POW who is allowed to escape.

Reprints

• in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #89 ([May] 2013) [black and white]

Indexer Notes

Robert Brice ? credit from Jerry Bails' Who's Who, which indicates he did art on this strip only in 1942.

Gum for a Gumshoe (Table of Contents: 5)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

crime

Little Leaders (Table of Contents: 6)

Mickey and the Kitten / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Mickey; The Kitten [Katie Conn]

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 7)

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

Script

Herman C. Browner

Pencils

Herman C. Browner

Inks

Herman C. Browner

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Patriotically maintaining a day nursery for children of war workers...

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Ragman [Jay Garson, Jr.]

The Siren's Wail (Table of Contents: 8)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Letters

typeset

The Adventure with Lady Satan (Table of Contents: 9)

The Hood / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Jack Grogan (credited)

Pencils

Jack Alderman (signed)

Inks

Jack Alderman (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Hood [Major Tom Wood]; Ray Herman (Wood's girl friend); Colonel Quinlan; Lady Satan (villain); Abel Garling (villain)

Synopsis

The Hood must stop the murder rampage of Lady Satan, who is out to kill all the war workers she can, but the evil villainess decides to kidnap Ray in order to get to the Hood first.

Reprints

• in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #84 (2011) [in black and white]

Now on Sale at Your Newsstand (Table of Contents: 10) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

I Knew Billy the Kid (Table of Contents: 11)

comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

C. R. Schaare (signed)

Inks

C. R. Schaare (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

non-fiction; western-frontier

Characters

William 'Billy the Kid' Bonney

Indexer Notes

Last appearance of feature.

33 Power Telescope Lens Kit (Table of Contents: 12) (Expand) /

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Be Popular - Learn the Newest Dances in 5 Days (Table of Contents: 13) (Expand) /

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Pick Your Prize (Table of Contents: 14) (Expand) /

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