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Amazing Man Comics 009 (paper+4fiche)(re-edit)-JVJ+narfstar+BB
Improved; now only 4 pages fiche (centerfold pages), with the missing pages provided from Darkmark's fiche copy.

A JVJ collection book, scanned by narfstar, edited and posted by builderboy.
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Packed with great artists - Bill Everett, Carl Burgos, John Giunta, Frank Thomas, Lew Glanzman, Martin Filchock!

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Issue: #9
Published: February 1940, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing:
Color: Color Cover; Color Interior Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-Stitched Publishing Format: Was On-Going Series
Notes: Various sequence notes corrected by Darci, September 2007. Editor per Ownership Statement on inside front cover. Indicia: February 1940. Number 9. AMAZING MAN COMICS is published monthly by Comic Corporation of America, 29 Worthington St., Springfield, Mass., Editorial and Executive offices: 215 Fourth Avenue, New York, N. Y. Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at Springfield, Mass. Single copies 10c. Yearly subscription $1.00 in the U.S.A. (other countries $1.50). Copyright 1939 by Comic Corporation of America. Contents must not be reproduced without permission. No actual person is named or delineated in this fiction magazine. Ptd. in U.S.A. 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. Second class permit. Copyright number 439469.
 Comic Contents:
Cover (1 page)
Featuring: Aman the Amazing-Man
Credits: Letters: typeset
Genre: Superhero
Characters: Amazing Man [John Aman] The Nazis

Advertisement (0 pages) Books for Boys and Girls
Featuring: Comic Corp. of America
Credits: Letters: typeset

Statement Of Ownership (0 pages) Statement of the Ownership, Management, Circulation Etc.
Synopsis: Statement of ownership of "Amazing-Man Comics, published monthly at Springfield, Mass., for October 1, 1939."
Credits: Script: Joseph J. Hardie; Berta M. Holcepl (notary) | Letters: typeset | Editing: Comic Corporation of America (owner); Joseph J. Hardie (owner, publisher); E. L. Angel (owner)

Promo (ad From The Publisher) (1 page) For 1940 It's the Centaur Group!
Featuring: The Centaur Group

Comic Story (10 pages)
Featuring: Aman the Amazing-Man
Synopsis: Escaping from the clutches of the Nazis, thanks to "The Green Mist," Aman steals a German plane and heads for Berlin. He is shot down, injured, and once again captured. While in the hospital, the Great Question mentally contacts Aman and demands he escape and head for Tibet.
Genre: Superhero
Characters: Amazing-Man [John Aman] Elsie (a Nurse) Pat (a Nurse)The Great Question (villain) Un-named German Leutnant (villain) Herman (villain) Karl (villain) Erich (villain, Intern, Death) Wilhelm (villain) Joseph (villain) Other Nazis (villains, Some Die)

Comic Story (4 pages)
Featuring: King of the South Seas
Synopsis: The King is revealed to be Roger King, Sir Oliver's missing son. When the King gets into a fight with Jenkins over the treatment of his prisoners King hits his head. Thinking the King is dead the natives begin an attack on the white people. Jenkins sacrifices his life to help the others escape the island with the King.
Genre: Adventure
Characters: Doris McAllister Sir Oliver King Jeffers Mr. Dites The King [Roger King] Dr. Wellesly (castaway) Mr. Jenkins (King's Partner, Dies)

Comic Story (3 pages) Jungle Battles
Featuring: Jay Douglas
Synopsis: Jay hunts dinosaurs in South America, encountering a menacing stegosaurus.
Genre: Jungle
Characters: Jay Douglas (paleontologist) Kelinga (guide) Ka-No (guide)

Comic Story (9 pages)
Featuring: Iron Skull
Synopsis: Iron Skull investigates missing rocket planes. Ludwig has been blasting them from the sky with his invisible ray then collecting the fallen planes aboard his steamship. Iron Skull pilots a rocket plane to learn what's happening. Confronting Ludwig Iron Skull throws him into the furnace of the ship then destroys the invisible ray.
Genre: Superhero
Characters: Iron Skull Mr. Leighton (aircraft Executive) Mr. Ryan (Naval Intelligence) Jeff (pilot) Richards (pilot) Ludwig (spy, Skipper, Dies) Otto (coal Man)

Comic Story (7 pages)
Featuring: The Magician from Mars
Synopsis: A mad professor makes an alliance with an unearthly Elemental. The Magician from Mars grows in size to battle the monster. She dispatches the monster by singing 'the most beautiful song in the world' at him.
Genre: Superhero
Characters: Magician From Mars Bill Wend (amateur Pianist) Elemental (giant Green Monster)

Comic Story (7 pages)
Featuring: Minimidget
Synopsis: Jake and Smily kidnap Minimidget and Ritty to force the duo to rob a bank for them. Minimidget escapes them and phones the police; the two robbers die in a shoot-out with the police.
Genre: Science Fiction
Characters: Minimidget Ritty Jake (robber, Dies) Smiley (robber, Dies) Mahoney (policeman)

Comic Story (7 pages)
Featuring: Chuck Hardy; Land Beneath the Sea
Synopsis: Jerry is kidnapped by the Quadropel Men, who want to sacrifice her to their god of steam. Oxan and Chuck rescue her. Oxan keeps the head of a victim as a trophy.
Genre: Science Fiction
Characters: Chuck Hardy Jerry Peterson Oxan Ciro (king Of Quadropel Men) Quadropel Men (four-armed Green Men)

Text Story (2 pages) The Green Mist
Featuring: Aman the Amazing-Man
Synopsis: Professor Matulay tries to start an uprising at the asylum where he's kept but Amazing Man stops him.
Credits: Letters: typeset
Genre: Superhero
Characters: Amazing Man [John Aman] Professor Khosov Matulay

Comic Story (7 pages) The Devil Dogs
Featuring: Mighty Man
Synopsis: Mighty Man, a 12' giant, leaves the Valley of Giants to wage war on crime, and his first case is to battle The Dogman and his devil dogs. The Dogman's master has created a formula which can be traced by his dogs across any distance, making it impossible for men to escape him. Mighty Man battles the Dogman while the inventor of the formula is doused in his own chemical then killed by his dogs.
Genre: Superhero
Characters: Mighty Man [Scott Pearson] (introduction) The Dogman (villain) Sunny

Comic Story (8 pages)
Featuring: The Shark
Synopsis: The Shark battles von Sclagian's submarine, which has been sinking and plundering ships in the Atlantic.
Genre: Superhero
Characters: The Shark Captain Von Sclagian (pirate)

Advertisement (1 page) This Beautiful Desk for Only $1.00
Featuring: Remington Noiseless Deluxe Portable Typerwriter
Credits: Letters: typeset

Advertisement (1 page) Boys, Girls! Select New & Unusual Gifts from This Ad or Sensational New Catalog
Featuring: Johnson Smith & Co.
Credits: Letters: typeset

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