(October-November 1939)

Fiction House, 1938 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.10 USD
Pages
68
Indicia Frequency
every other month
On-sale Date
1939-08-09
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Real Adventures Publishing Co. Inc.
Editing
Malcolm Reiss (Editor); Will Eisner (Art Director); S. M. Iger (Feature Editor)

Issue Notes

First standard-sized issue.

On sale date from the publication date found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 34, 1939, Number 4. Second class periodical. Copyright number 424739.
Parts of this issue are reprinted:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Stuart Taylor in Weird Stories of the Supernatural / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Lou Fine
Inks
Lou Fine
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
science fiction
Reprints
Keywords
extra-terrestrials; spears
Cover Thumbnail for Jumbo Comics (Fiction House, 1938 series) #10
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

Sheena / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
? [as W. Morgon Thomas]
Pencils
Bob Powell
Inks
Bob Powell
Colors
?
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
After escaping from the mad king, Sheena, Bob...
Genre
jungle
Characters
Sheena; Bob; Namu (lion, dies); Tamur (zebra); Teeka (lesser ape); Leeta (leopard; dies)
Synopsis
Sheena gets her leopard costume after Bob kills a leopard named Leeta.
Reprints
  • from Wags (Australia)(1936 series)

Indexer Notes

Panels have been cut up and rearranged. Most of them have been blow up very large so that there are only 4 panels rather than 8-9.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

Peter Pupp / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Peter and Tinymite found to their amusment that...
Genre
humor
Characters
Peter Pupp; Tinymite; Fooy On Yu; Ah Choo

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Stuart Taylor in Weird Stories of the Supernatural / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
? [as Curt Davis]
Pencils
Lou Fine
Inks
Lou Fine
Colors
?
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Projecting themselves by their own invention into time, ..
Genre
science fiction
Reprints
  • from Wags (Australia)(1936 series)

Indexer Notes

formerly Weird Stories of the Supernatural

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

Bobby / comic story / 0.5 page (report information)

Script
S. M. Iger
Pencils
S. M. Iger
Inks
S. M. Iger
Colors
?
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Mom, I'm gonna be independent-I'm lookin' for...
Genre
humor; children
Characters
Bobby; his mom

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

Hunchback of Notre Dame / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
? (adaptor); Victor Hugo (original author)
Pencils
Dick Briefer
Inks
Dick Briefer
Colors
?
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Esmeralda, really the daughter of a noble, is...
Genre
historical
Characters
Esmeralda; Jehan; Quasimodo
Reprints

Indexer Notes

final installment

The Jungle Pirates (Table of Contents: 6)

Ken Hammond and the Leopard Man / text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
Lin Davies
Pencils
Bob Powell
Inks
Bob Powell
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
jungle
Characters
Ken Hammond

The Crimson Rider Unmasked (Table of Contents: 7)

Wilton of the West / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
? [as Fred Sande]
Pencils
Lou Fine
Inks
Lou Fine
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Wilton; The Crimson Rider

The Perfect Crime (Table of Contents: 8)

Spencer Steel / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
? [as Dennis Colebrook]
Pencils
Will Eisner ? (layouts); Iger/Eisner shop
Inks
Iger/Eisner shop
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
detective-mystery
Characters
Spencer Steele; Miss Hawthorne; Commissioner Balentyne; Mike McCarthy; Belinda Hawthorne; Basil
Synopsis
Miss Hawthorne thinks her father died under suspicious circumstances. Steel finds he was poisoned with an old gypsy compound.
Reprints
  • from Wags (Australia) (1936 series)

Indexer Notes

Appears to be Eisner layouts or influence. But the "shop" is the "artist" and you can already see why it's so tough to sort them out...Tho it's very early one could see future traces of Zolne, Cardy and even Bryant if one wanted to...

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

The Hawk / comic story / 11 pages (report information)

Script
Will Eisner [as Willis Rensie]
Pencils
Will Eisner
Inks
Will Eisner
Colors
?
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
The Isle of Mantilla uncharted even to this...
Genre
historical
Characters
Hawk, Jeremy; Senorita Mantilla; Black Tonda; Jose Mantilla
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Pages 83-92. Panels enlarged, extended, redrawn and omitted from original.

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

ZX-5 / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
? [as Major Thorpe]
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
For months an old castle on the border...
Genre
spy
Characters
ZX-5; Swenson; Major Hastings; Magda; Alphonse; Josoix; Baron Karl
Synopsis
ZX-5 investigates an old castle on the border of Chesterland.
Reprints
  • from Wags (UK) (1937 series)

Indexer Notes

This is a true shop job again...but this time unlike the Spencer Steel work, it contains some elements seen in the "Powell-Henkel" style [see ZX-5 in issue 6] described earlier. There is a license plate that has R-B on it but other than Bob Bugg no other link came to mind in style.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 11)

Inspector Dayton / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
? [as George Thatcher]
Inks
? [as George Thatcher]
Colors
?
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Inspector Dayton prepares to embark on his long...
Genre
detective-mystery
Characters
Inspector Dayton; Carlos Diez; Wini Damian; Russell Nelson
Reprints
  • from Wags (UK)(1937 series)

Indexer Notes

A few panels have extraneous numbers in corners and the size of the lettering varies, hinting at paste-up pages of differing sizes.

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Stuart Taylor in Weird Stories of the Supernatural
  2. 1. ["After escaping from the mad king, Sheena, Bob..."]
    Sheena
  3. 2. ["Peter and Tinymite found to their amusment that..."]
    Peter Pupp
  4. 3. ["Projecting themselves by their own invention into time, .."]
    Stuart Taylor in Weird Stories of the Supernatural
  5. 4. ["Mom, I'm gonna be independent-I'm lookin' for..."]
    Bobby
  6. 5. ["Esmeralda, really the daughter of a noble, is..."]
    Hunchback of Notre Dame
  7. 6. The Jungle Pirates
    Ken Hammond and the Leopard Man
  8. 7. The Crimson Rider Unmasked
    Wilton of the West
  9. 8. The Perfect Crime
    Spencer Steel
  10. 9. ["The Isle of Mantilla uncharted even to this..."]
    The Hawk
  11. 10. ["For months an old castle on the border..."]
    ZX-5
  12. 11. ["Inspector Dayton prepares to embark on his long..."]
    Inspector Dayton
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Darci
  • Ray Bottorff Jr
  • Peter Croome
  • Michael Hoskin
  • Bob Hughes
  • Tony R. Rose
  • Ramon Schenk
  • Patrick Shaughnessy
  • Henry Steele, Hames Ware, Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. (R.I.P.)
  • Jim Van Dore
  • Len Wolinsky
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