AC Annual #2

([December] 1991)

Chapter 1 The Vacuum Blows In (Table of Contents: 1)

Femforce / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Bill Black

Pencils

Dick Ayers (signed)

Inks

Chad Hunt (signed)

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

FemForce [She-Cat; Synn; Ms. Victory; Stardust]; Captain Video

Reddevil (Table of Contents: 2)

Reddevil / character profile / 1 page (report information)

Script

Bill Black (credited)

Pencils

Dan Barry (credited) (art (from Charles Biro))

Inks

Dan Barry (credited) (art (from Charles Biro))

Letters

typeset

Genre

superhero

Characters

Reddevil [Bart Hill]; Little Wise Guys

Indexer Notes

Story of how Bart Hill, the original Daredevil (1940), became Reddevil.

Chapter 2 (Table of Contents: 3)

Crimebuster; Reddevil / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script

Bill Black (credited)

Pencils

Dick Ayers (credited)

Inks

Chad Hunt (credited); Bill Black (credited)

Letters

?

Genre

superhero; crime

Characters

Reddevil [Bart Hill]; Crimebuster; Jock McGregor; Little Wise Guys [Pee Wee; Scarecrow; Curly] (last app. in DAREDEVIL COMICS #134); Synn; The Vacuum (Villain)

Yankee Girl (Table of Contents: 4)

Yankee Girl / character profile / 1 page (report information)

Script

Bill Black (credited)

Pencils

Mark Heike (signed)

Inks

Mark Heike (signed)

Letters

typeset

Genre

superhero

Characters

Yankee Girl [Lauren Mason]

Chapter 3 (Table of Contents: 5)

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

Script

Bill Black

Pencils

Bill Black

Inks

Mark Heike (finishes)

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Yankee Girl [Lauren Mason]; She-Cat; Vacuum (Villain)

Chapter 4 (Table of Contents: 6)

Ms. Victory; She-Cat / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Bill Black (credited)

Pencils

John Nadeau (credited)

Inks

John Nadeau (credited)

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Ms. Victory [Jennifer Burke]; She-Cat; Reddevil; Crimebuster; Vacuum (Villain)

Frightenstein (Table of Contents: 7)

Frightenstein / character profile / 1 page (report information)

Script

Bill Black (credited)

Pencils

Mark Heike (signed)

Inks

Mark Heike (signed)

Letters

typeset

Genre

superhero

Characters

Frightenstein

Pleasure Cruise (Table of Contents: 8)

Frightenstein / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Bill Black

Pencils

Ted Seko (layouts)

Inks

Mark Heike (finishes)

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Frightenstein

Dr. Weir (Table of Contents: 9)

The Purple Claw / character profile / 1 page (report information)

Script

Bill Black (credited)

Pencils

Mark Heike (credited) (art); Rik Levins (credited) (art); Frank Turner (credited) (art)

Inks

Mark Heike (credited) (art); Rik Levins (credited) (art); Frank Turner (credited) (art)

Letters

typeset

Genre

superhero; horror-suspense

Characters

Black Shroud; The Purple Claw [Dr. Jonathan Weir]; The Green Lama

Vault of Heroes (Table of Contents: 10)

The Purple Claw / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

Bill Black (credited)

Pencils

Frank Turner (credited)

Inks

Frank Turner (credited)

Letters

?

Genre

superhero; horror-suspense

Characters

The Purple Claw [Dr. Jonathan Weir] (origin); Cat-Man; Kitten; Rocketman; Jet Girl; Avenger; Microman; Captain Flash; Miss Masque

Synopsis

Dr. Weir tells the other heroes how he came to obtain the Purple Claw. A Crusading knight had carried the Holy Grail from the Holy Land to a monastery in Tibet. He then left with the Grail, but left his gauntlets, which had become imbued with mystical energy for good, with the High Lama. Dr. Weir came to the monastery in 1950. Sensing that Dr. Weir was worthy, he was given one of the gauntlets, which became known as the Purple Claw. Since that is now keeping the powerful, evil, Black Shroud, imprisoned, Dr. Weir returns to Tibet and is given the other Purple Claw.

Reprints

• in Purple Claw Mysteries (AC, 1994 series) #1 (1994) [original title: "The Vault of Heroes", pages 3-10]

Indexer Notes

When AC brought back Dr. Weir in Femforce: Out of the Asylum (1987), they used the original (1953) origin that the Purple Claw had been given to him by an African witch doctor in 1943.

The Avenger (Table of Contents: 11)

The Avenger / character profile / 1 page (report information)

Script

Bill Black

Pencils

Dick Ayers

Inks

Dick Ayers ?

Letters

typeset

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Avenger [Roger Wright]

The Metal Menace (Table of Contents: 12)

The Avenger / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Gardner Fox (credited)

Pencils

Bob Powell (credited) (signed as POWELL)

Inks

Bob Powell (credited) (signed as POWELL)

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Avenger [Roger Wright]

Reprints

• from The Avenger (Magazine Enterprises, 1955 series) #2 [A-1 #131] (April-May 1955)