Issue: #9
Published: February 1940, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing: Lloyd Jacquet
Color: Color Cover; Color Interior Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-Stitched Publishing Format: Was On-Going Series
Notes: Various sequence notes corrected by Darci, September 2007. Editor per Ownership Statement on inside front cover. Indicia:
February 1940. Number 9. AMAZING MAN COMICS is published monthly by Comic Corporation of America, 29 Worthington St., Springfield, Mass., Editorial and Executive offices: 215 Fourth Avenue, New York, N. Y. Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at Springfield, Mass. Single copies 10c. Yearly subscription $1.00 in the U.S.A. (other countries $1.50). Copyright 1939 by Comic Corporation of America. Contents must not be reproduced without permission. No actual person is named or delineated in this fiction magazine. Ptd. in U.S.A.
On sale date from the publication date found at the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, January-December 1940, Numbers 1-4. Second class permit. Copyright number 439469.
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| Cover (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Aman the Amazing-Man |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Bill Everett [as Everett] (signed) | Inks: Bill Everett [as Everett] (signed) | Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Superhero |
| Characters: |
Amazing Man [John Aman] The Nazis |
| Advertisement (0 pages) |
Books for Boys and Girls |
| Featuring: |
Comic Corp. of America |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Statement Of Ownership (0 pages) |
Statement of the Ownership, Management, Circulation Etc. |
| Synopsis: |
Statement of ownership of "Amazing-Man Comics, published monthly at Springfield, Mass., for October 1, 1939." |
| Credits: |
Script: Joseph J. Hardie; Berta M. Holcepl (notary) | Letters: typeset | Editing: Comic Corporation of America (owner); Joseph J. Hardie (owner, publisher); Raymond J. Kelly (owner, business manager); E. L. Angel (owner); Lloyd Jacquet (editor) |
| Promo (ad From The Publisher) (1 page) |
For 1940 It's the Centaur Group! |
| Featuring: |
The Centaur Group |
| Credits: |
Pencils: George Peter [as Peter] (signed) | Inks: George Peter [as Peter] (signed) |
| Comic Story (4 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
King of the South Seas |
| Credits: |
Script: Harold Hughes? | Pencils: Harold Hughes (signed) | Inks: Harold Hughes (signed) |
| Comic Story (3 pages) |
Jungle Battles |
| Featuring: |
Jay Douglas |
| Credits: |
Script: Robert Louis Golden? | Pencils: Robert Golden (signed) | Inks: Robert Golden (signed) |
| Comic Story (9 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Iron Skull |
| Synopsis: |
Iron Skull (hero) vs. spies in the year 1970. |
| Credits: |
Script: Carl Burgos? | Pencils: Carl Burgos (signed) | Inks: Carl Burgos (signed) |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
The Magician From Mars |
| Synopsis: |
"born of Martian & Earth parents, super-heroine Jane battles a giant Elemental" |
| Credits: |
Script: John Giunta; Michael Mirando | Pencils: John Giunta; Michael Mirando | Inks: John Giunta; Michael Mirando |
| Genre: |
Superhero |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Minimidget |
| Synopsis: |
Reduced to 6-inches by a mad scientist, a young man and woman battle criminals. |
| Credits: |
Script: John F. Kolb? | Pencils: John F. Kolb | Inks: John F. Kolb |
| Genre: |
Science Fiction |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Chuck Hardy; Land Beneath the Sea |
| Synopsis: |
Pellucidar-like sci-fi adventure. |
| Credits: |
Script: Frank Thomas? | Pencils: Frank Thomas (signed) | Inks: Frank Thomas (signed) |
| Genre: |
Science Fiction |
| Text Story (2 pages) |
The Green Mist |
| Featuring: |
Aman the Amazing-Man |
| Credits: |
Script: Sam Gilman | Pencils: Sam Gilman (signed) | Inks: Sam Glanzman (signed) | Letters: typeset |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
The Devil Dogs |
| Featuring: |
Mighty Man |
| Synopsis: |
Mighty Man, a 12' giant, leaves the Valley of Giants to wage war on crime, and his first case is to battle The Dogman and his devil dogs. |
| Credits: |
Script: Martin Filchock ? | Pencils: Martin Filchock (signed) | Inks: Martin Filchock (signed) |
| Genre: |
Superhero |
| Characters: |
Mighty Man [Scott Pearson] (introduction) The Dogman (villain) |
| Comic Story (8 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
The Shark |
| Credits: |
Script: Lew Glanzman? | Pencils: Lew Glanzman (signed) | Inks: Lew Glanzman (signed) |
| Genre: |
Superhero |
| Advertisement (1 page) |
This Beautiful Desk for Only $1.00 |
| Featuring: |
Remington Noiseless Deluxe Portable Typerwriter |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Advertisement (1 page) |
Boys, Girls! Select New & Unusual Gifts from This Ad or Sensational New Catalog |
| Featuring: |
Johnson Smith & Co. |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
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