Issue: #8
Published: December 1939, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing:
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: Data from Jerry Bails index cards and Howard Keltner's Golden Age index.
On sale date from the publication date and volume number found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 34, 1939, Number 4. Class B periodical. Copyright number B 435648.
Comic Corporation of America's address given as 29 Worthington Street, Springfield, Massachusetts. Editorial and executive offices address given as 220 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York. Printed in U.S.A.
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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) |
| Genre: |
Superhero War |
| Characters: |
The Amazing Man [John Aman] |
| Text Article (1 page) |
Uncle Joe's Christmas Treat: Free Gifts for All! |
| Credits: |
Script: ? [as Uncle Joe] | Letters: typeset |
| Advertisement (0 pages) |
Special Offers for Boys and Girls |
| Credits: |
Script: ? (ad copy) | Pencils: ? (illustrations) | Inks: ? (illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
| Comic Story (10 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Aman the Amazing-Man |
| Synopsis: |
Learning about war being declared in Europe, the Amazing Man changes into the Green Mist, heads for the airport, and takes his fighter plane across the Atlantic to fight German planes in France. Involved in a aerial dogfight, Aman is shot down and captured by the Germans, who send him to Concentration Camp 23365AC. |
| Credits: |
Script: Bill Everett (signed) | Pencils: Bill Everett (signed) | Inks: Bill Everett (signed) |
| Genre: |
Superhero War |
| Characters: |
Amazing-Man [John Aman] Pierre (French Soldier) The Nazis (villains, Many Die) |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Magician from Mars |
| Synopsis: |
The Magician from Mars saves a man jumping from a bridge and a cowboy at the rodeo. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: John Giunta (signed) | Inks: Mike Mirando (signed) |
| Genre: |
Science Fiction |
| Characters: |
Magician From Mars [Jane Q-X3] Zeke (cowboy) |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Minimidget the Supermidget |
| Synopsis: |
The midgets are taken prisoner and brought to The Power on his stronhold at castle Rock. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: John Kolb (signed) | Inks: John Kolb (signed) |
| Genre: |
Superhero |
| Characters: |
Minimidget Mitty The Power (villain) Jose Mike Spud |
| Text Story (2 pages) |
Loco Lobo |
| Synopsis: |
Even in the deep mesa, the hand can be faster than the eye. |
| Credits: |
Script: David C. Cooke | Pencils: ? [as B. T.] (signed) | Inks: ? [as B. T.] (signed) | Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Western-frontier |
| Characters: |
Drake Hanley Sheriff Carey Phelan |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
The Football Mystery |
| Featuring: |
Mighty Man |
| Synopsis: |
Mighty Man plays football against a team of men who have been operated on to obey the will of a mad scientist. |
| Credits: |
Script: Martin Filchock; Frank Filchock (story idea suggestion) | Pencils: Martin Filchock (signed) | Inks: Martin Filchock (signed) |
| Genre: |
Sports Superhero |
| Characters: |
Mighty Man (12 Foot Giant) |
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