Digital Comic Museum - Weird_Comics


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FC and BC from HA, formerly IFC or IBC, now added from eBay listing.
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Issue: #6
Published: September 1940, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing: Victor Fox
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: 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. 3.

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Featuring:	The Dart
Credits:	Pencils: Edd Ashe \| Inks: Edd Ashe
Characters:	The Dart [Caius Martius Wheeler] Ace Barlow (inset)

Promo (ad From The Publisher) (1 page)
Featuring:	Blue Beetle
Credits:	Letters: typeset
Characters:	Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]

Comic Story (8 pages)	The Red Shirt Ring
Featuring:	Dart
Synopsis:	The Dart and Ace foil the Redshirt's plot to kidnap the governor.
Credits:	Pencils: ? [as Jerry Arbo]
Characters:	The Redshirts (villain, Introduction, Death) The Governor (introduction) Hans Dart [Caius Martius Wheeler] Ace Barlow

Comic Story (8 pages)	The Episode of Prince Ja'afar
Featuring:	Sorceress of Zoom
Synopsis:	Prince Ja'afar rescues a group of females kidnapped by the Sorceress of Zoom.
Credits:	Pencils: Don Rico \| Inks: Don Rico
Genre:	Fantasy
Characters:	Prince Ja'afar (introduction) Sorceress Of Zoom Shiekh Abdulah Ishmael (horse) Shiekh Kalifah Shahzarad

Comic Story (2 pages)
Featuring:	Solar Plexis
Credits:	Pencils: ? [as Jupiter]
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Solar Plexis Prof. Potts Orson

Comic Story (8 pages)	The Unknown Horror
Featuring:	Blast Bennett
Synopsis:	Lex has been bitten by a winged snake; to save his life, Blast is tasked with obtaining the blood of the "Unknown Horror" which acts as an antidote to the venom of the winged snake.
Credits:	Pencils: Don Rico \| Inks: Don Rico
Genre:	Science Fiction
Characters:	Lex (introduction) Bordo (villain, Introduction) Blast Bennett Red

Comic Story (6 pages)	The Reducing Formula
Featuring:	Dr. Mortal
Synopsis:	Dr. Mortal is successful in creating a reducing serum, which shrinks living objects to one-tenth their normal size.
Credits:	Script: Bert Whitman \| Pencils: Bert Whitman \| Inks: Bert Whitman
Genre:	Science Fiction
Characters:	Dr. Mortal (villain) Kalak (villain, Introduction) Marlene Gary Brent

Text Story (2 pages)	Explorers In the Space Ways
Synopsis:	On a voyage from Mars to Io, the crew of the Ariadne run into a Force 101 storm that sets their spaceship adrift in space.
Credits:	Script: Nathaniel Nitkin [as N. N. Nathaniel] \| Letters: Typeset
Genre:	Science Fiction
Characters:	Don Wayne Kennedy Capt. Ketonnen

Comic Story (8 pages)	The Rites of Lucifer
Featuring:	Voodoo Man
Credits:	Pencils: ? [as Allen Spectre]
Genre:	Fantasy
Characters:	Lucifer (villain, Introduction) Voodoo Man (villain) Dr. Warren Petro Pierre

Comic Story (8 pages)	The Tidal Annihilator
Featuring:	Typhon
Synopsis:	Menar sinks an ocean liner to steal $100,000,000 dollars in gold.
Credits:	Pencils: ? [as Phillips Judge]
Genre:	Adventure
Characters:	Menar (villain, Introduction, Death) Typhon Ina Hank

Comic Story (1 page)
Featuring:	Weird Facts
Synopsis:	Subjects include octopi, cannibals, ghost ships, and angry Native American deities.
Genre:	Non-fiction

Comic Story (10 pages)	Introducing Dynamite Thor
Featuring:	Dynamite Thor
Credits:	Pencils: ? [as Wright Lincoln]
Characters:	Dynamite Thor [Peter Thor] (introduction) Glenda (introduction) Dead John's Gang (villain, Introduction) John Holmes

Advertisement (1 page)
Credits:	Script: ? (ad copy) \| Letters: typeset
Characters:	Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]

Activity (1 page)
Credits:	Script: ? (ad copy) \| Letters: typeset

Promo (ad From The Publisher) (1 page)
Featuring:	The Eagle
Credits:	Letters: typeset
Characters:	Eagle

Promo (ad From The Publisher) (1 page)
Featuring:	Samson; Fantastic Comics
Credits:	Letters: typeset
Characters:	Samson

Promo (ad From The Publisher) (1 page)
Credits:	Letters: typeset
Characters:	Samson Eagle Dart [Caius Martius Wheeler] Flame [Gary Preston] Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]

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