Digital Comic Museum - Special Edition Comics 01 (paper+6fiche)


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Special Edition 01 (paper+6fiche)

scanned from a coverless also missing its centerfold. FC and BC from HAG. IFC, IBC and centerfold from fiche on site

rangerhouse scans
comic by krankyboy/rangerhouse fund
movielover edits

Issue: #1
Published: 1940, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: One-shot
Notes: On sale date is Library of Congress copyright record publication date, in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1940 Pamphlets, page 757.

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]

Comic Story (17 pages)	The Menace of Dr. Allirog
Synopsis:	Billy is stunned, like the rest of the crowd, when the challenger in the heavyweight boxing match knocks out the champion with one punch. By hook or crook, trying to get an interview, Billy learns the truth behind what happened and is captured by a giant ape who is actually Dr. Allirog, who works for Slaughter Slade.
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Captain Marvel [Billy Batson] Unnamed Boxing Champion President Franklin D. Roosevelt (cameo) Slaughter Slade (villain, Boxer) Butch (villain) Dr. Allirog (villain, Scientist, Giant Gorilla, Death) Spider (villain, Allirog's Assistant) Professor Universe (villain, Master Of All Knowledge)

Comic Story (19 pages)	The Haunted House
Synopsis:	In 1890, a recluse millionaire, with his dying breath, informs his servant that no one is to enter this house after his death. Anyone doing so will fall under the dying man's curse that will follow them to their grave. When the man dies, the city wants to take the property on back taxes, tear it down and sell the land, but ghosts haunting the property scare everyone off, except Captain Marvel.
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Captain Marvel [Billy Batson] J. Morton Grood (eccentric Bachelor-millionaire, Flashback, Death) Ricketts (Grood's Servant, Flashback) Police Chief Noble Spencer Barnes [aka J. Morton Grood] (villain, Town Treasurer) Ralph Cole (villain)

Comic Story (9 pages)	Gamblers of Death
Synopsis:	Risking death, Billy investigates a phantom gambling ring which uses men's lives as chips in a fantastic game of murder for money.
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Captain Marvel [Billy Batson] Jack Scott (track Athlete) Jose Angelo (track Athlete) "Long Shot" Louis Lupo (villain, Gambler) Unnamed Sniper (villain)

Comic Story (19 pages)	Sivana the Weather Wizard
Synopsis:	Billy seeks to learn why there has been ten times as much damage by tornado, earthquake, hail storms, and floods than the previous year, disasters that threaten to bankrupt American insurance companies. However, when he learns that one company in particular has benefitted greatly from these disasters, Billy smells a rat and it's Captain Marvel who discovers the truth and the man behind it: Sivana!
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Captain Marvel [Billy Batson] Unnamed President Of The National Insurance Association Beautia Sivana Dr. Thaddeus Bodog Sivana (villain) Herman (villain)

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