Digital Comic Museum - Soldiers of Fortune 001


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Issue: #1
Published: March-April 1951, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 52, Editing: Richard Hughes [as Richard E. Hughes] (credited)
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Silver Age US Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Featuring:	Captain Crossbones
Credits:	Pencils: Ogden Whitney (signed) \| Inks: Ogden Whitney (signed) \| Letters: Ed Hamilton
Genre:	Adventure
Characters:	Captain Crossbones

Comic Story (10 pages)	Meet Ace Carter
Featuring:	Ace Carter Adventurer
Synopsis:	Ellen Prescott hires Ace Carter to lead her to a place in the jungle where her father had located a diamond necklace.
Credits:	Pencils: Leonard Starr \| Inks: Leonard Starr
Genre:	Adventure Jungle
Characters:	Ace Carter Miss Ellen Prescott Bruce Professor Anthony Prescott (Flashback)

Text Story (1 page)	A Mission for the General
Credits:	Letters: typeset; Ed Hamilton
Genre:	Adventure

Comic Story (12 pages)	Captain Crossbones -- Soldier of Fortune
Featuring:	Captain Crossbones
Synopsis:	Tom runs away and stows on a ship as a youngster. He is eventually captured by pirates, where he grows to adulthood. When the captain captures Lady Nancy Terrence, Tom kills him and becomes Captain Crossbones.
Credits:	Pencils: Sheldon Moldoff [as Shelly] (signed) \| Inks: Sheldon Moldoff [as Shelly] (signed)
Genre:	Adventure Historical
Characters:	Captain Crossbones [Tom Rutherford] Captain Smithers Alf Blackhand (Pirate) Duke Lady Nancy Terrence

Comic Story (2 pages)	The Sioux Massacres
Synopsis:	The story of the Fetterman Massacre and the reprisal by the U.S. Calvary.
Genre:	Non-fiction Western-frontier
Characters:	Jim Bridger Colonel Fetterman Red Cloud

Text Story (1 page)	Gamble against Odds
Credits:	Letters: typeset; Ed Hamilton
Genre:	Adventure

Comic Story (6 pages)	Richard Burton, alias Ruffian Dick
Featuring:	True Soldiers of Fortune
Synopsis:	The story of Richard Burton and his adventures, including being the first white man to see the sacred Moslem ceremonies in Mecca and discovering lake Tanganyika.
Genre:	Adventure
Characters:	Richard Burton Isabel Arundel Grand Emir Of Harar

Text Story (1 page)	Galley Slaves
Credits:	Letters: typeset; Ed Hamilton

Comic Story (13 pages)	The Man of a Thousand Faces!
Featuring:	Lance Larson, Soldier Of Fortune
Synopsis:	Lance Larson must stop some spies from stealing the secret behind Alexi Ivanov's new cosmic-ray powered weapon.
Credits:	Pencils: Charles Sultan \| Inks: Charles Sultan \| Letters: Ed Hamilton
Genre:	Adventure
Characters:	Lance Larson Midge Atlas Zortan Alexi Ivanov

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