Red Band Comics #3

(April 1945)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

Captain Wizard / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

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When Captain Wizard donned the mantle which made him a master of mighty magic...

Characters

Captain Wizard (Intro; Origin; next appearance in Meteor Comics #1)

Reprints

• in Red Band Comics (Rural Home, 1944 series) #4 (May 1945)

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

"Teeny" McSweeny / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

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Charles Voight

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Charles Voight

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He's short -- but from starboard to port he's four feet six inches...

Characters

Teeny McSweeny (Intro)

Reprints

• in Red Band Comics (Rural Home, 1944 series) #4 (May 1945)

Indexer Notes

Art is consistent with Voight’s signed work from Picture News #2 (February 1946).

The Bewitched Heiress! (Table of Contents: 3)

Dr. Mercy / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

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Dr. Mercy (Intro)

Reprints

• in Red Band Comics (Rural Home, 1944 series) #4 (May 1945)

Murder Above the City (Table of Contents: 4)

King O'Leary / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

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King O'Leary (Intro)

Reprints

• in Red Band Comics (Rural Home, 1944 series) #4 (May 1945)

Whispered Fate (Table of Contents: 5)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Bruce Elliott

Letters

typeset

Reprints

• in Red Band Comics (Rural Home, 1944 series) #4 (May 1945)

Ride That Nightmare! (Table of Contents: 6)

Race Wilkins / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

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August Froehlich

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August Froehlich

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Race Wilkins (Intro)

Reprints

• in Red Band Comics (Rural Home, 1944 series) #4 (May 1945)

Indexer Notes

Art is consistent with Froehlich’s signed Race Wilkins art from Meteor Comics #1 (November 1945).

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Impossible Man / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

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Bernard Baily

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Bernard Baily

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Just imagine being lost on a strange planet...

Genre

superhero

Characters

Impossible Man [Hugh Mann] (inventor, introduction, origin); Flatfeet Fogarty (super-cop of Brutus, introduction); Super-Judge (introduction); Super-Phony (villain, introduction)

Synopsis

Hugh Mann considers himself a failure and someone who is afraid of his own shadow......but someone who has brains. He decides to build a rocket ship to Mars and heads out into space. However, upon landing, he discovers that he is on the lost planet Brutus, where he arrested by Flatfeet Fogarty, who takes Hugh to see Super-Judge, who has Hugh packed in cotton and exhibited as a typical weak Earth freak. When Super-Phony barges in, informing Super-Judge that he has robbed the Super-Treasury, Hugh tells the judge he can stop the villain...and does, thus earning the name Impossible Man.

Reprints

• in Red Band Comics (Rural Home, 1944 series) #4 (May 1945)
• in Three Ring Comics (Superior, 1946 series) #1 (1946)
• in Captain Wizard Comics (Croydon Publishing Co., 1946 series) #1 ([April] 1946)

Keywords

Brutus (a planet)