Green Lama #2

(February 1945)

Green Lama Contents (Table of Contents: 1)

Green Lama / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Pencils:

Mac Raboy

Inks:

Mac Raboy

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Characters:

The Green Lama [Jethro Dumont]

Synopsis:

Contents page featuring illo of the Green Lama, features, story titles and brief synopses of each story.

Reprints:

• in Green Lama Featuring the Art of Mac Raboy (Dark Horse, 2008 series) #1 (April 2008)

Willie the Sleeper! (Table of Contents: 2)

The Green Lama / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Script:

Ken Crossen

Pencils:

Mac Raboy

Inks:

Mac Raboy

Colors:

?

Letters:

Rhoda Lewis (signed)

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Green Lama [Jethro Dumont]; Tsarong; Lieutenant Caraway; Willie the Sleeper (villain, introduction)

Synopsis:

Willie, the President of the Chamber of Criminal Commerce, offers a grand prize of $10,000 to anyone who sends them the best idea for a successful crime wave in the postwar underworld.

Reprints:

• in Golden Age of Comics Special (New Media Publishing, 1982 series) (Summer 1982)
• in Green Lama Featuring the Art of Mac Raboy (Dark Horse, 2008 series) #1 (April 2008)

Indexer Notes

The last 1/3 of the last page of the story is an illustrated ad for the Green Lama Club. Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 2008-10-5.

Smith? Kelly? Cohen? Svoboda? (Table of Contents: 3)

War Bonds / public service announcement / 1 page (report information)

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Synopsis:

Illustrated ad encouraging Americans to join the war effort and buy War Bonds.

Reprints:

• in Green Lama Featuring the Art of Mac Raboy (Dark Horse, 2008 series) #1 (April 2008)

A Genius in the Family! (Table of Contents: 4)

The Boy Champions / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script:

Joseph Greene (signed)

Pencils:

Al Bare (signed)

Inks:

Al Bare (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

Rhoda Lewis (signed)

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Boy Champions [Tuffy; Mickey; Wellington Smith]; Horace Higginbottom (villain); Higginbottom's gang (villains)

Synopsis:

Tuffy writes what he thinks is a masterpiece and sees a man about publishing it, which he agrees to do. But Tuffy is not aware the man plans to use the publishing of the book as a cover for a crime!

Reprints:

• in Green Lama Featuring the Art of Mac Raboy (Dark Horse, 2008 series) #1 (April 2008)

Indexer Notes

Credits added by Craig Delich 2008-10-5.

Murder on Water (Table of Contents: 5)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script:

Joseph Greene (signed)

Pencils:

? (spot illustration)

Inks:

? (spot illustration)

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Genre:

crime

Characters:

Inspector McGabe; Professor Sam Hoyle; Mrs. Sterling; John Gardner (villain)

Synopsis:

Inspector McCabe asks Professor Hoyle help him solve the murder of James Sterling, a man strangled to death on a life raft in the water while half a dozen people watched.

Reprints:

• in Green Lama Featuring the Art of Mac Raboy (Dark Horse, 2008 series) #1 (April 2008)

Youth Is a Curse! (Table of Contents: 6)

Angus Mac Erc / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script:

Bruce Elliott (signed)

Pencils:

Jerry Robinson [as Perry Williams] (signed)

Inks:

Jerry Robinson [as Perry Williams] (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Angus Mac Erc [aka Mc Erc]; Time; Mr. Magdelene; Chumley Sister Maudlin; Paracelsus

Synopsis:

While at a library, Mac Erc runs into a student of the dark arts who plans to release one Paracelsus from his imprisonment in a tree for the last few centuries.

Reprints:

• in Green Lama Featuring the Art of Mac Raboy (Dark Horse, 2008 series) #1 (April 2008)

Indexer Notes

Credits added by Craig Delich 2008-10-5.

Letterer credit revised from Rhoda Lewis to ? by Craig Delich. Lettering on this story totally different from Lewis' work on the other stories.

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

Pop Flys / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script:

Al Liederman [as L] (signed)

Pencils:

Al Liederman [as L] (signed)

Inks:

Al Liederman [as L] (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

Al Liederman

Genre:

sports

Characters:

Mike McTigg; Pop; Joe Clutch (villain)

Synopsis:

Mike gets nervous before his big fight, but his pop is equally scared of the fight he has waiting at home: with his wife!

Reprints:

• in Green Lama Featuring the Art of Mac Raboy (Dark Horse, 2008 series) #1 (April 2008)

Indexer Notes

Credits added by Craig Delich 2008-10-5.

Censor Trouble (Table of Contents: 8)

Rick Masters / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script:

Bruce Elliott [as Walter Gardner] (signed)

Pencils:

Mort Lawrence (signed)

Inks:

Mort Lawrence (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

Rhoda Lewis (signed)

Genre:

adventure; aviation

Characters:

Rick Masters; Twin Eagle; F. X. MacIntyre (death); Peeves (villain, death); Big Casino (villain, death); Little Casino (villain, death)

Synopsis:

When Rick Masters and his sidekick set up their commercial air operations, they thought it would be smooth sailing. And it would have been, except for a dictionary, a dying man, a stolen safe and the power of static electricity.

Reprints:

• in Green Lama Featuring the Art of Mac Raboy (Dark Horse, 2008 series) #1 (April 2008)

Indexer Notes

Credits added by Craig Delich 2008-10-5.

It Pays to Advertise (Table of Contents: 9)

Lieutenant Hercules / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script:

Horace L. Gold [as H. L. Gold] (signed)

Pencils:

Irving Tirman

Inks:

Irving Tirman

Colors:

?

Letters:

Rhoda Lewis (signed)

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Lieutenant Hercules [Wilbur Klutz]; Merlin; un-named gang members (villains)

Synopsis:

Wilbur decides that the job of bookkeeper is beneath the dignity of a superhero, so he decides to use his super powers to cash in.

Reprints:

• in Green Lama Featuring the Art of Mac Raboy (Dark Horse, 2008 series) #1 (April 2008)

Indexer Notes

Credits added by Craig Delich 2008-10-5. Story title taken from the contents page.