Speed Comics
#40
(November 1945)
Harvey,
1941 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Family Comics, Inc.
- Editing
- Leon Harvey (credited) (editor)
[no title indexed]
Black Cat [Harvey]; Captain Freedom / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Rudy Palais (signed)
- Inks
- Rudy Palais (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Captain Freedom [Don Wright]; Black Cat [Linda Turner]
Indexer Notes
Illustrates the text story
Laundry Store for Sale--Cheap!
Captain Freedom / comic story / 10 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Unhand my lady, Don Miguel...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Captain Freedom [Don Wright]; The Young Defenders [Slim; Whitey; Lefty; Blackie; Beanie; Joanie]; Mirimushima (villain); Lieutenant Saki (villain)
Indexer Notes
A previous indexer credited the art to 'Rudy Palais ?', but this is not his style.
[no title indexed]
Getting Maisie Married / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Art Helfant (signed as Art Helfant)
- Pencils
- Art Helfant (signed as Art Helfant)
- Inks
- Art Helfant (signed as Art Helfant)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Art Helfant (signed as Art Helfant)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Good morning Pa - you just getting home?
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Maisie; her mother and father; Dick (bugler)
- Synopsis
- Maisie's new boyfriend is a bugler.
Indexer Notes
The "Getting Maisie Married" feature formerly appeared in Green Hornet Comics (Harvey, 1942 Series). It will now appear in various comics, without a regular home.
Death from One Million B. C.
Shock Gibson / comic story / 9 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Bob Fujitani (signed as B. Fuje)
- Inks
- Bob Fujitani (signed as B. Fuje)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Once the Earth was young...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Shock Gibson [Robert Charles Gibson]; Hirohito (Villain); the Japanese (Villain)
The Story Behind the Cover
Black Cat, Captain Freedom / text story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- For some time, the shooting had stopped...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Captain Freedom [Don Wright]; The Black Cat [Linda Turner]
[no title indexed]
Bimbo's Beanery / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Art Helfant (signed as Art Helfant)
- Pencils
- Art Helfant (signed as Art Helfant)
- Inks
- Art Helfant (signed as Art Helfant)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Art Helfant (signed as Art Helfant)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dishes! Dishes!! Dishes!!!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Bimbo
- Synopsis
- Bimbo buys an automatic washing machine.
Indexer Notes
This is the final appearance of "Bimbo's Beanery" feature in Speed Comics. The feature appears next in Black Cat (Harvey, 1946 Series) #3 (December/January 1946/1947).
Forgotten Land!!!
Girl Commandos / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Jill Elgin (signed)
- Inks
- Jill Elgin (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- There's a land so strange...
- Genre
- adventure; war
- Characters
- The Girl Commandos [Pat Parker; Tanya; Ellen; Penny; Mei-Ling]; Father Kiri (Intro); The Japanese (Villain)
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Black Cat [Harvey]; Captain Freedom -
1.
Laundry Store for Sale--Cheap!
Captain Freedom -
2.
["Good morning Pa - you just getting home?"]
Getting Maisie Married -
3.
Death from One Million B. C.
Shock Gibson -
4.
[no title indexed]
Speed Sticklers -
5.
The Story Behind the Cover
Black Cat, Captain Freedom -
6.
["Dishes! Dishes!! Dishes!!!"]
Bimbo's Beanery -
7.
Forgotten Land!!!
Girl Commandos
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- Keith Chandler
- Nick Caputo
- Mike Nielsen
- Len Wolinsky
- Per Sandell
- Michael Hoskin
- Ramon Schenk
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