Fantastic Comics #4

(March 1940)

[The Giant Robots of Kilgor] (Table of Contents: 1)

Samson [Fox] / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Script

Will Eisner ?

Pencils

Alex Blum

Inks

Alex Blum

Colors

?

Letters

?

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] (Table of Contents: 2)

Flip Falcon / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Don Rico

Inks

Don Rico

Colors

?

Letters

?

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 (Table of Contents: 3)

Golden Knight / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Grieg Chapian

Inks

Grieg Chapian

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

historical; adventure

Characters

Golden Knight [Sir Richard of Warwick]; Alice (introduction)

[The Silent Explosive] (Table of Contents: 4)

Yank Wilson / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Characters

Yank Wilson; Terro (villain, introduction, death)

Lost in Time (Table of Contents: 5)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Richard Paul (signed)

Letters

typeset

[Headless Men of the Gold Comet] (Table of Contents: 6)

Space Smith / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

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

• 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)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 7)

Captain Kidd / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Toni Blum ?

Pencils

Bill Bossert

Inks

Bill Bossert

Colors

?

Letters

?

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] (Table of Contents: 8)

Professor Fiend / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Fred Schwab

Pencils

Fred Schwab

Inks

Fred Schwab

Colors

?

Letters

Fred Schwab (sourced)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Deep down in a gloomy subterranean subcellar...

Genre

humor

Characters

Professor Fiend

[The Mad Giant Experimenter] (Table of Contents: 9)

Stardust [biography] / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

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; non-fiction; biography

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)

[The Problem of Prince Pizga] (Table of Contents: 10)

Sub Saunders / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Henry Kiefer

Inks

Henry Kiefer

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

adventure

Characters

Sub Saunders; Thetis (introduction); Prince Pizga (villain, introduction, death)