(January 1946)

Harvey, 1941 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.10 USD
Pages
52
Indicia Frequency
bi-monthly
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Family Comics Inc.
Editing
Leon Harvey (credited) (editor, managing editor)

[The Human Airplane] (Table of Contents)

Captain Freedom / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Rudy Palais (signed)
Inks
Rudy Palais (signed)
Colors
?

Genre
superhero
Characters
Captain Freedom [Don Wright]

Indexer Notes

Title from the story

Cub Reporters (Table of Contents: 1)

Captain Freedom / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Hold on to your seats, gang!
Genre
superhero
Characters
Captain Freedom [Don Wright]; The Young Defenders [Slim; Whitey; Lefty; Blackie; Beanie; Joanie]; Heist Hogan (Villain; Intro)

Indexer Notes

Keith Chandler : A previous indexer attributed the art to 'Rudy Palais ?', but compare the style to the signed cover and it clearly is not his work.

The God of Steel (Table of Contents: 2)

Shock Gibson / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Bob Fujitani
Inks
Bob Fujitani
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Legendary is the sly deceitfulness of our Pacific enemy...
Genre
superhero
Characters
Shock Gibson [Robert Charles Gibson]; Colonel Mohandas Bagore; Vishnu (villain); The Japanese (villains)
Synopsis
Shock is called into action by reports of Indian troops committing mutiny over the appearance of Vishnu the Destroyer.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Art credits [previously with a ?] verified by Bill Black, added by Craig Delich 2011-4-24.

The Human Airplane (Table of Contents: 3)

Captain Freedom / text story / 1.8 pages (report information)

Script
?
Letters
typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text
The Globe-Girdler...
Genre
superhero
Characters
Captain Freedom [Don Wright]; The Young Defenders [Slim; Whitey; Lefty; Blackie; Beanie; Joanie]; Professor Hugarb

Indexer Notes

The Story Behind the Cover

The balance of page two is taken up with the annual Statement of Ownership.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

statement of ownership / 0.2 page (report information)

Script
Leon Harvey (credited) (editor)
Letters
typeset

A Pack of Trouble - King-Size! (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Rudy Palais ?
Inks
Rudy Palais ?
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Science and circumstance collaborate...
Genre
adventure; humor; sports
Characters
Billy Bickerstaff (football fullback); Professor Dixon (Shirley's father); Shirley Dixon (Billy's date); Watson (the Dixon's butler); Tony (villain, an organ grinder); Tony's monkey (villain)
Synopsis
Billy and Shirley head out on a date after Billy is told about her father's experiments to get animals to grow several times their own size. When Shirley's purse is snatched by an organ grinder's monkey, Billy chases the man into the Professor's lab, where he accidently receives an injection of the growth serum.
Keywords
Victorville

Indexer Notes

The last third of page seven has an illustrated ad for four Army and Navy related humorous magazines.

Keith Chandler : This is much more like the art style of Palais than attributed stories in previous issues.

Biff Bannon's Furlough (Table of Contents: 6)

Biff Bannon / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
Art Helfant (signed)
Pencils
Art Helfant (signed)
Inks
Art Helfant (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
humor; war; military
Characters
Biff Bannon; The Admiral

The Sacred Tooth of Buddha (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Arturo Cazeneuve (signed)
Inks
Arturo Cazeneuve (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
In this fast and furious tale...
Genre
adventure
Characters
Tommy Buttersworth; "Soho" Smith; Mahatma Mohrandi

Treachery At the Top of the World (Table of Contents: 8)

Girl Commandos / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Jill Elgin
Inks
Jill Elgin
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Here is a tale of a treaty torn...
Genre
adventure; war
Characters
The Girl Commandos [Pat Parker; Tanya; Ellen; Penny; Mei-Ling]; General Yashimoto (Villain; Intro); the Japanese (Villain)
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [The Human Airplane]
    Captain Freedom
  2. 1. Cub Reporters
    Captain Freedom
  3. 2. The God of Steel
    Shock Gibson
  4. 3. The Human Airplane
    Captain Freedom
  5. 4. [no title indexed]
  6. 5. A Pack of Trouble - King-Size!
  7. 6. Biff Bannon's Furlough
    Biff Bannon
  8. 7. The Sacred Tooth of Buddha
  9. 8. Treachery At the Top of the World
    Girl Commandos
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Nick Caputo
  • Keith Chandler
  • Craig Delich
  • Jean-Francois Masse
  • Clint Maxwell
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Per Sandell
  • Ramon Schenk
  • Len Wolinsky