Digital Comic Museum - Pocket Comics 04 (paper+2fiche)-c2c


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(Corrected) Scanned from a coverless; fc+bc from the reliable old HAG, and ifc+ibc from darkmark's old fiche.
Early appearances of Black Cat; Spirit of '76; Satan; Red Blazer; Zebra; and the Phantom Sphinx!

Issue: #4
Published: January 1942, Price: 0.10 USD; 0.15 CAD, Pages: 100, Editing: Alfred Harvey
Color: Color Cover Dimensions: Digest Size Paper Stock: Binding: Publishing Format:
Notes: POCKET COMICS, Volume 1, Number 4, JANUARY 1942. Published Bi-monthly by Alfred Harvey 67 West 44th Street, New York, N. Y. Entered as second class matter April 18, 1941, at the Post Office in New York, under Act of March 3, 1879. Price 10 cents per copy. In Canada 15 cents per copy. Subscription for six issues, 60 cents in U. S. A. (Other countries 85 cents). No actual person is named or delineated in this fiction magazine. Printed in U. S. A.

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Credits:	Pencils: Al Avison ?; Al Gabriele ? \| Inks: Al Avison ?; Al Gabriele ?

Comic Story (12 pages)	Decoy Destruction
Featuring:	Black Cat
Credits:	Script: Alfred Harvey? \| Pencils: Al Gabriele? \| Inks: Al Gabriele?
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Garboil (villain)

Comic Story (12 pages)	Don Swan, Traitor
Featuring:	Spirit of '76
Credits:	Script: ? (Major Ralston)

Comic Story (2 pages)	Hitchin' a Ride
Featuring:	Private Pinky
Credits:	Script: Art Helfant \| Pencils: Art Helfant \| Inks: Art Helfant

Comic Story (10 pages)	Satan Meets His Equal
Featuring:	Satan
Credits:	Pencils: Pierce Rice \| Inks: Pierce Rice
Genre:	Horror-suspense
Characters:	Natas (introduction, Villain, Death?)

Cartoon (1 page)
Featuring:	Simpy
Genre:	Humor

Comic Story (8 pages)	The Coming of Von Voff
Featuring:	Spin Hawkins

Text Story (2 pages)	Captain Freedom and the Stratobomber Riddle
Featuring:	Captain Freedom
Credits:	Letters: typeset

Comic Story (12 pages)	Dr. Skull and the Thieving Orphans
Featuring:	Red Blazer
Credits:	Pencils: Al Avison? \| Inks: Al Avison?
Characters:	Dr. Skull (villain)

Text Story (2 pages)	U.S.A.
Featuring:	Black Cat & Spirit of '76 (teamup)
Credits:	Letters: typeset

Comic Story (10 pages)	Crossing the Black Cat's Path
Featuring:	British Agent 99
Credits:	Script: Alfred Harvey? \| Pencils: Pierce Rice \| Inks: Pierce Rice
Characters:	Alan Douglas [Agent 99] (British Scren Star) Linda Turner [The Black Cat] Rick Horne Garboil (villain) Karl Vern (introduction, Villain)

Advertisement (1 page)
Genre:	Humor

Activity (2 pages)
Featuring:	Can You Solve These Puzzlers
Credits:	Script: A. W. Nugent \| Pencils: A. W. Nugent \| Inks: A. W. Nugent

Comic Story (10 pages)	The Evil of Kali
Featuring:	Phantom Sphinx
Credits:	Pencils: Louis Cazeneuve? \| Inks: Louis Cazeneuve?
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Amron (son Of Pharaohs) [The Phantom Sphinx] Kali (Villain, Introduction)

Text Article (2 pages)
Featuring:	Stars In the Spotlight!

Comic Story (10 pages)	Battles the Human Frog!
Featuring:	The Zebra
Credits:	Script: ? (Ellery King) \| Pencils: Pierce Rice? \| Inks: Pierce Rice?
Characters:	John Doyle (counselor At Law) [The Zebra] J. C. Terry (his Friend, A Secret Service Agent, Death) The "Frog" (deported Spy, Villain, Death) Reginald Stillson (head Of The American Secret Service)

Cartoon (1 page)
Credits:	Script: Art Helfant \| Pencils: Art Helfant (signed) \| Inks: Art Helfant

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