(March 1940)
Fox,
1939 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1940-01-08
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Fox Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
FP
- Editing
- Victor Fox (editor)
Issue Notes
On sale date from the publication date found at the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, January-December 1940, Numbers 1-4. Class B periodical. Copyright number B 441668.
[The Giant Robots of Kilgor]
Samson / comic story / 13 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The threat of doom by giant robots hovers over the world.
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Samson; Kilgor (villain, introduction, death); Prof. Brun; Rigo
- Keywords
- Baha Island; Boravia; demoleculing ray; robots; television screen
[Invasion of the Three-Armed Men]
Flip Falcon / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- science fiction; adventure
- Characters
- Flip Falcon; Three-Armed Men (villains)
Indexer Notes
Flick Falcon's name changed to Flip.
The Legend of the Haunted Well
Golden Knight / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- historical; adventure
- Characters
- Golden Knight [Sir Richard of Warwick]; Alice (introduction)
[The Silent Explosive]
Yank Wilson / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- adventure; spy
- Characters
- Yank Wilson; Terro (villain, introduction, death)
[Headless Men of the Gold Comet]
Space Smith / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Fletcher Hanks (signed as Hank Christy)
- Pencils
- Fletcher Hanks (signed as Hank Christy)
- Inks
- Fletcher Hanks (signed as Hank Christy)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Fletcher Hanks
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- "Space" has just received a radio call from a lunar station, inviting him and Dianna to visit the moon for a close-up of a new comet.
- Genre
- science fiction; adventure
- Characters
- Space Smith; Dianna; The Thinker (villain, introduction)
- Synopsis
- Space Smith and Dianna are attacked by the Thinker's headless soldiers while they investigate the comet of gold.
- Reprints
[no title indexed]
Captain Kidd / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hearing rumors of a strange cult of hideous beast-men...
- Genre
- adventure; aviation
- Characters
- Captain Kidd
[no title indexed]
Professor Fiend / comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Deep down in a gloomy subterranean subcellar...
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Professor Fiend
[The Mad Giant Experimenter]
Stardust / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Fletcher Hanks (signed)
- Pencils
- Fletcher Hanks (signed)
- Inks
- Fletcher Hanks (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Fletcher Hanks
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Stardust, the scientific marvel whose vast interplanetary knowledge has given him greater powers than anybody else, has learned through his scopes that a mad giant experimenter, who dwells in the Gobi desert, is planning to destroy the world.
- Genre
- science fiction; superhero
- Characters
- Stardust; The Mad Giant (introduction); Kamet (introduction)
- Synopsis
- Stardust prevents the Mad Giant from destroying Chicago with a volcano that appears in Lake Michigan.
- Reprints
-
in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #56 ([December] 2005) - in You Shall Die by Your Own Evil Creation! (Fantagraphics, 2009 series) (June 2009)
-
in Fletcher Hanks : œuvres complètes (Actes Sud, 2018 series) (mai 2018)
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[The Problem of Prince Pizga]
Sub Saunders / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Sub Saunders; Thetis (introduction); Prince Pizga (villain, introduction, death)
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
The Mighty Samson Demolishes the Closing Torture Walls
Samson -
1.
[The Giant Robots of Kilgor]
Samson -
2.
[Invasion of the Three-Armed Men]
Flip Falcon -
3.
The Legend of the Haunted Well
Golden Knight -
4.
[The Silent Explosive]
Yank Wilson -
5.
Lost in Time
-
6.
[Headless Men of the Gold Comet]
Space Smith -
7.
["Hearing rumors of a strange cult of hideous beast-men..."]
Captain Kidd -
8.
["Deep down in a gloomy subterranean subcellar..."]
Professor Fiend -
9.
[The Mad Giant Experimenter]
Stardust -
10.
[The Problem of Prince Pizga]
Sub Saunders
This issue was modified by, among others
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Craig Delich
- Gregory Fischer
- Del Gruber
- Michael Hoskin
- Clint Maxwell
- Lou Mazzella
- Ramon Schenk
- Henry Steele, Hames Ware, Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. (R.I.P.)
- Jim Van Dore
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