Amazing Man Comics #7

(November 1939)

Amazing-Man Loose! (Table of Contents: 1)

Aman the Amazing-Man / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

A. L. Kirby (signed)

Pencils

Bill Everett (signed)

Inks

Bill Everett (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Characters

Amazing-Man [John Aman]; Lucille Peabody (image in newspaper); Tom Gregg (maintenance engineer, death); un-named State Engineer; Miss Dean (State Engineer's secretary); The Great Question (villain); Garcia (villain); Murray (villain, death); Karl (villain, aviator, death); Jeff (villain, aviator, death); Henry Muth (villain, engineering contractor, death)

Synopsis

Having interfered with the plans of the Great Question, the villain arranges for fake witnesses to claim in court that Aman forced a car off the road, killing a maintenance engineer. Forced into a cell, Aman changes into the Green Mist and confronts the witnesses, trying to get them to confess to their treachery.

Reprints

• in Continuum (JMF, 2007 series) #3 (No Date [circa décembre 2007]) [excerpt]
• in The Bill Everett Archives (Fantagraphics, 2011 series) #1 - Amazing Mysteries (December 2011)

Indexer Notes

Previous indexer listed script by Bill Everett, revised credit from Gregory Huneryager 2007-5-31. Title and character info from Lou Mougin (May, 2009).

Dinosaur Forest (Table of Contents: 2)

Dinosaur Forest / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Robert Louis Golden

Inks

Robert Louis Golden

Colors

?

Letters

?

Characters

Jay Douglas

Indexer Notes

A Complete Novelette. Info for this sequence from Gregory Huneryager 5/31/2007.

The 'King' of the South Seas (Table of Contents: 3)

King of the South Seas / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Harold Hughes

Inks

Harold Hughes

Colors

?

Letters

?

Indexer Notes

Data from Jerry Bails index cards & Howard Keltners Golden Age index. Art credit from Gregory Huneryager 5/31/2007. Title from Lou Mougin, May 2009.

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

The Iron Skull / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Carl Burgos

Inks

Carl Burgos

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Dear Reader--In the year 1950 during the Second World War...

Indexer Notes

Info on this sequence from Gregory Huneryager 5/31/2007. Title from Lou Mougin, May 2009.

[Origin of the Magician from Mars] (Table of Contents: 5)

Magician from Mars / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

John Giunta (signed)

Inks

Malcolm Kildale (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

science fiction; superhero

Characters

Magician from Mars [Jane Gem35] (introduction, origin); Jane Faro [Gem35] (Earth woman, mother of daughter Jane); Jarl Gem35 (Martian man, father of daughter Jane); Dr. Clinton (introduction); Jane's Aunt (guardian, introduction)

Synopsis

The daughter of a Martian father and human mother is accidentally exposed to the rays of a cathode tube by her nurse which gives her extraordinary powers and advanced mentality. However, her Earthly heritage of affection for blood relatives is her one weakness.

Reprints

• in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #100 (2016)

Indexer Notes

Art credit from Gregory Huneryager (2007-5-31).

The Who's Who indicates that Giunta did both pencil and ink, and does not indicate that Kildale worked on the strip at all.

Title from Lou Mougin, May 2009.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6)

Minimidget the Miniature Man / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

John F. Kolb (signed)

Pencils

John F. Kolb (signed)

Inks

John F. Kolb (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Say, Ritty!

Characters

Minimidget; Ritty

Synopsis

Minimidget and Ritty battle a weasel.

First to Luna (Table of Contents: 7)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

David C. Cooke

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Info on this sequence from Gregory Huneryager 5/31/2007.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 8)

Chuck Hardy; Land beneath the Sea / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Frank Thomas

Pencils

Frank Thomas

Inks

Frank Thomas

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Provided with a good meal by the patrol captain...

Indexer Notes

Title from Lou Mougin, May 2009.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 9)

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

Script

Martin Filchock (signed)

Pencils

Martin Filchock (signed)

Inks

Martin Filchock (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The Mighty Man -- a huge twelve-foot giant...

Genre

superhero

Indexer Notes

Title from Lou Mougin, May 2009.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 10)

The Shark / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Lew Glanzman [as Lew Glanz]

Pencils

Lew Glanzman [as Lew Glanz]

Inks

Lew Glanzman [as Lew Glanz]

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The Shark is an amazing under-sea creature...

Genre

superhero

Reprints

• in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #63 ([February] 2007)

Indexer Notes

Title from Lou Mougin, May 2009.