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Published: November 1939, 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: Was On-Going Series
Notes: Data from Jerry Bails index cards and Howard Keltners Golden Age index.
Sequence order from Gregory Huneryager May 31, 2007.
On sale date from the publication date and volume number found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 34, 1939, Number 4. Second class periodical. Copyright number 436088.
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| Cover (1 page) |
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| Credits: |
Pencils: Bill Everett [as Everett] (signed) | Inks: Bill Everett [as Everett] (signed) |
| Genre: |
Adventure |
| Characters: |
The Amazing Man [John Aman] |
| Comic Story (10 pages) |
Amazing-Man Loose! |
| Synopsis: |
Having interfered with the plans of the Great Question, the villain arranges for fake witnesses to claim in court that Aman forced a car off the road, killing a maintenance engineer. Forced into a cell, Aman changes into the Green Mist and confronts the witnesses, trying to get them to confess to their treachery. |
| Credits: |
Script: A.L. Kirby (signed) | Pencils: Bill Everett (signed) | Inks: Bill Everett (signed) |
| Characters: |
Amazing-Man [John Aman]; Lucille Peabody (image in newspaper); Tom Gregg (maintenance engineer, death); un-named State Engineer; Miss Dean (State Engineer's secretary); The Great Question (villain); Garcia (villain); Murray (villain, death); Karl (villain, aviator, death); Jeff (villain, aviator, death); Henry Muth (villain, engineering contractor, death) |
| Comic Story (3 pages) |
Dinosaur Forest |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Robert Louis Golden | Inks: Robert Louis Golden |
| Characters: |
Jay Douglas |
| Comic Story (4 pages) |
The 'King' of the South Seas |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Harold Hughes | Inks: Harold Hughes |
| Comic Story (9 pages) |
"Dear Reader--In the year 1950 during the Second World War..." |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Carl Burgos | Inks: Carl Burgos |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
Origin of the Magician From Mars |
| Synopsis: |
The daughter of a Martian father and Earth woman is accidentally exposed to the rays of a cathode tube by her nurse, which gives her extraordinary powers and advanced mentality. However, her Earthly heritage of affection for blood relatives is her one weakness. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: John Giunta (signed) | Inks: Malcolm Kildale (signed) |
| Genre: |
Science Fiction; Superhero |
| Characters: |
Magician From Mars [Jane Gem35] (introduction, origin); Jane Faro [Gem35] (Earth woman, mother of daughter Jane); Jarl Gem35 (Martian man, father of daughter Jane); Dr. Clinton (introduction); Jane's Aunt (guardian, introduction) |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
"Say, Ritty!" |
| Credits: |
Script: John F. Kolb | Pencils: John F. Kolb | Inks: John F. Kolb |
| Text Story (2 pages) |
First to Luna |
| Credits: |
Script: David C. Cooke | Letters: typeset |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
"Provided with a good meal by the patrol captain..." |
| Credits: |
Script: Frank Thomas | Pencils: Frank Thomas | Inks: Frank Thomas |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
The Mighty Man--a huge twelve-foot giant... |
| Credits: |
Script: Martin Filchock | Pencils: Martin Filchock | Inks: Martin Filchock |
| Comic Story (8 pages) |
"The Shark is an amazing under-sea creature..." |
| Credits: |
Script: Lew Glanzman | Pencils: Lew Glanzman | Inks: Lew Glanzman |
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