Cat-Man Comics
#29
(August 1945)
Temerson / Helnit / Continental,
1941 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1945
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Continental Magazines Inc.
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
Correct story order and text story from Bill via error report.
[no title indexed]
The Cat-Man / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- L. B. Cole (signed as
L. B. Cole) - Inks
- L. B. Cole (signed as L. B. Cole)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Cat-Man [David Merrywether]; The Kitten [Katie Rose]; Dr. Macabre
- Reprints
-
in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #44 ([January 2004]) - in Black Light: The World of L. B. Cole (Fantagraphics, 2014 series) (January 2015)
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- Keywords
- circuses; knives; leopards; lions; tigers
The Man Who Conquered Death!
Cat-Man and the Kitten / comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Bob Fujitani [as B. Fuje] (signed)
- Inks
- Bob Fujitani [as B. Fuje] (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Cat-Man [Captain David Merrywether]; The Kitten [Katie Rose]; Inspector Jenkins; un-named scientist (inventor of the Z-Ray, death); Dr. Macabre (villain)
- Synopsis
- After murdering a scientist to get his famed "Z-Ray", Dr. Macabre learns that it has given a deadly gift: death by touch! And the Cat-Man and Kitten must stop him from getting the antidote!
- Reprints
- in Golden-Age Greats (AC, 1994 series) #1 (1994)
- in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #74 ([October] 2008)
- in Golden-Age Greats Spotlight (AC, 2003 series) #9 - Cat-Man and Kitten (2012)
-
- Keywords
- Z-Ray
Indexer Notes
Cat-Man's true last name was spelled "Merryweather" in this story.
[no title indexed]
Molly O'Moore and Scoop Scanlon / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It was the strangest murder case of Molly O'Moore's career...
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Molly O'Moore; Scoop Scanlon; Bernard Adams; Estelle Adams; Professor Ostrow
- Synopsis
- Someone is going to kill mr. Adams at midnight, and he invites reporters to his house to cover his murder.
Indexer Notes
Art very similar to her signed stories in Cat-Man #28 and Terrific #6. Profile of Molly, faces and movement of figures match.
Portraits of Plunder
The Hood / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Hood [Major Tom Wood]; Rae Herman (his fiancée); Happy Hollihan (villain); Pete Pallette (villain); an art Professor (villain)
- Synopsis
- Two crooks steal a painting at the art gallery and disguise it with paint and then hand it over to the art professor who manage to get it out of the museum.
Indexer Notes
Next appearance in FEMFORCE #29 (AC Comics).
The Zombie Master
The Deacon and Mickey / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- The Deacon; Mickey; Ellen Cole (introduction, singer); unnamed Policeman (introduction); Zombie Master (villain, introduction, death); Kuala (villain, Zombie Master's servant, introduction, death)
- Synopsis
- The spirit of Khara-El is displeased with his humble servants and demands a white victim for a blood sacrifice that would satisfy him. So he chooses the one known as the Zombie Master to seek out the victim: a nightclub singer named Ellen Cole. It happens that The Deacon and Mickey attend the performance at the club and see her being kidnapped on the street. The girl is forcibly taken, but a Policeman fatally wounds Kuala, whom the Zombie Master raises from the dead to attack the Deacon and Mickey.
Indexer Notes
Art ID by Lou Mougin.
Corpses Don't Stay Cold
The Reckoner and Chipper / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- The Reckoner [Michael Shayne]; Chipper; Dr. Cole; Mortimer Grayson (introduciton; death); Grayson's former partner (villain; introduction)
- Synopsis
- A man frozen to death by a blazing fire, and the answer to the mystery is in an experimental quick freezer in the cellar.
Indexer Notes
The close up faces with very bright eyes and layout with many diagonal lines, look very much like the signed Cat-Man story in this issue. Probably him.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
The Cat-Man -
1.
The Man Who Conquered Death!
Cat-Man and the Kitten -
2.
["It was the strangest murder case of Molly O'Moore's career..."]
Molly O'Moore and Scoop Scanlon -
3.
Portraits of Plunder
The Hood -
4.
The Cat Came Back
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5.
Hypnosis In Reverse
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6.
The Zombie Master
The Deacon and Mickey -
7.
Corpses Don't Stay Cold
The Reckoner and Chipper -
8.
Carnival of Crime
Little Leaders
This issue was modified by, among others
- Steinar Ådland
- Henry Andrews
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Craig Delich
- Del Gruber
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Ramon Schenk
- Henry Steele, Hames Ware, Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. (R.I.P.)
- Jim Van Dore
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