Issue: #2
Published: May 1940, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing: Victor Fox
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: The Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, January-December 1940, Numbers 1-4, lists this as volume 1, the date of this issue as January 1940 with a publication date of December 22, 1939, which is quite a few months before this issue's actual date. Second class permit. Copyright number 440219. Could be a publication error or perhaps an ashcan submission to the Copyright Office.
The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1940, New Series, Vol. 35, No. 2. The date of the issue is given as May 1940 with a publication date of March 15, 1940. Copyright number B449440.
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| Cover (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Dr. Mortal |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Lou Fine | Inks: Lou Fine | Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Sword And Sorcery |
| Characters: |
Dr. Mortal |
| Comic Story (12 pages) |
Thor Goes To War |
| Featuring: |
Thor |
| Synopsis: |
Grant calls Glenda up for a dinner date, but discovers she is sailing for Europe. Realizing the danger because of the war, he joins her aboard ship, which is soon sunk by a Nazi mine. On a raft, Grant sees a cruiser in the mined waters attempting to follow and rescue them, so Grant becomes Thor and blows up the mines. Now safe, Glenda tells Thor that she is heading for France to warn them of a surprise attack on Paris. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Pierce Rice | Inks: Arturo Cazeneuve |
| Genre: |
Superhero |
| Characters: |
Thor [Grant Farrel] Glenda The Nazis (villains, Some Die) |
| Comic Story (2 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Solar Plexis |
| Credits: |
Script: Fred Schwab | Pencils: Fred Schwab | Inks: Fred Schwab | Letters: Fred Schwab |
| Comic Story (8 pages) |
Zom the Space Pirate |
| Featuring: |
Blast Bennett |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Don Rico | Inks: Don Rico |
| Characters: |
Zom |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
The Lion-Man |
| Featuring: |
Dr. Mortal |
| Credits: |
Script: Bert Whitman | Pencils: Bert Whitman | Inks: Bert Whitman |
| Characters: |
Dr. Mortal Lion-Men Salvo |
| Comic Story (8 pages) |
The Return of the Voodoo Man |
| Featuring: |
Voodoo Man |
| Credits: |
Pencils: ? [as Alan Spectre] |
| Characters: |
The Hungun |
| Text Story (2 pages) |
The Speaking Rock |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Comic Story (8 pages) |
The Giant Lizard Invasion |
| Featuring: |
Bird Man |
| Credits: |
Pencils: ? [as Arnold Mazos] |
| Comic Story (10 pages) |
Dwellers of the Sea |
| Featuring: |
Typhon |
| Credits: |
Pencils: ? [as Phillips Judge] |
| Characters: |
Cecilia Mike Neptune Mermen |
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