Issue: #1
Published: November 1940, Price: 0.10 USD; 0.15 CAD, Pages: 68, Editing:
Color: Color Cover; Color Interior Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: November, 1940. Number 1. WHAM COMICS is published monthly by Centaur Publications, Inc., 221 East 20th St., Chicago, Illinois. Editorial and Executive Offices: 215 Fourth Ave., New York, N. Y. Application for entry as second class matter at the Post Office at Chicago, Ill., pending. Single copies 10c; 15c in Canada. Yearly subscription $1.00 in the U.S.A. (other countries $1.50). Copyright 1940 by Centaur Publications, Inc. Contents must not be reproduced without permission. No actual person is named or delineated in this fiction magazine. Printed in the U.S.A.
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. 4.
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| Advertisement (1 page) |
The Stamp Album |
| Featuring: |
Tatham Stamp Co. |
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Letters: ?; typeset |
| Advertisement (1 page) |
Two of a Kind and Both Aces! |
| Featuring: |
Super-Mystery Comics; Sure-Fire Comics |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Harry Lucey ?; ? | Inks: Harry Lucey ?; ? | Letters: ?; typeset |
| Genre: |
Superhero |
| Comic Story (8 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Copper Slugg |
| Synopsis: |
Slugg needs to learn to control his fists, but even though he gets suspended he still catches the crooks. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Martin Filchock (signed) | Inks: Martin Filchock (signed) |
| Characters: |
Copper Slugg Police Chief |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Phantom Rider |
| Synopsis: |
The Phantom Rider saves a man who was framed for murder when he pulled his gun but did not shoot it. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: A. L. Petersen (signed) | Inks: A. L. Petersen (signed) |
| Genre: |
Western-frontier |
| Characters: |
Phantom Rider Thunder (his Horse) |
| Text Story (2 pages) |
The Mystery of the "Circle-X" |
| Credits: |
Script: Ray Gill | Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Western-frontier |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
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| Synopsis: |
Mike reminisces to Speed about the old days of the railroad and wishes they'd get robbed, and then they do. |
| Genre: |
Adventure |
| Characters: |
Speed Silvers Mike Muldoon |
| Comic Story (8 pages) |
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| Synopsis: |
After Jon helps Alpha defeat the Nogos, he and the Kanes journey back to the 3rd dimension and Earth. To their surprise, Alpha joins them en route and explains that they may have travelled in time as well as space. They arrive in 1940, sixty years before their time, and are greeted with suspicion and disbelief. |
| Genre: |
Adventure Science Fiction |
| Characters: |
Jon Linton Dr. Kane Lisa Kane Alpha-712 |
| Comic Story (10 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Speed Centaur |
| Synopsis: |
Speed takes Reel to see the ruined city of his people, but they are captured by hostile humans who have taken up residence there. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Malcolm Kildale (signed) | Inks: Malcolm Kildale (signed) |
| Genre: |
Superhero |
| Characters: |
Speed Centaur Jerry "Reel" McCoy |
| Comic Story (5 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Detecto |
| Synopsis: |
Scientist Jack Strand discovers "detecto," the wonder beam, and installs it in his car. When he hears of a dangerous criminal on the loose, Jack pursues him and captures him using detecto. |
| Genre: |
Superhero |
| Characters: |
Jack Strand |
| Advertisement (1 page) |
This Beautiful Desk for only $1.00 |
| Featuring: |
Remington Noiseless Deluxe Portable Typewriter |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Advertisement (1 page) |
"Boys! Girls! Have you seen our new 1941 catalog?" |
| Featuring: |
Johnson Smith & Company |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
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