Digital Comic Museum - Wow Comics 005 (paper)


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January, 1942. This issue features 3 Mr. Scarlet stories, The Hunchback, Rick O'Shay, Jim Dolan, and Atom Blake. This is a coverless copy with the front and back covers from Heritage and the ifc and ibc from fiche.

This particular copy is interesting because of the stamp, "Greetings from Congressman TENEROWICZ," which is found on numerous pages throughout the book. Rudolph G. Tenerowicz (D-Michigan) served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1939-1943, and it's easy to picture one of his children, or the child of one of his staff members, getting bored in his office and playing with the stamp. A fascinating connection to the book's original owner.

3-December-2013 7:45 am	\|
Username:	crashryan
Comment:	WTF!!?? The Hunchback MURDERS the crooked DA! "There goes the greatest of us all!"
6-December-2013 6:58 am	\|
Username:	churnworks
Comment:	The DA was crooked; he deserved to die. That's the message here, and in many other comics of the time. Comic book creators of the time understood kids far better than Wertham in the 20th century, or Andrew Lang in the 19th. It is not that the story favors murder, but that it favors the moral: crime and evil must be punished. This storyline in particular reminds me of Ditko's "Angel" story featuring one of the first appearances of Mr. A, from an early Witzend.

Issue: #5
Published: Spring 1942, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing: France Herron
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S. 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, 1942, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 1.

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Genre:	Superhero

Comic Story (8 pages)	The Moon Torchman
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Mr. Scarlet Pinky Moon Torchman [Prof. Hawkstrum] (introduction, Death)

Comic Story (8 pages)	The Boss
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	V: The Boss (I)

Comic Story (9 pages)	The Fire Fiend
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	V: The Fire Fiend (I Bill Wilcox)

Comic Story (13 pages)	Spinto's Submarine Gangsters
Genre:	Superhero

Text Story (2 pages)	The Death Peddlers
Credits:	Letters: typeset

Comic Story (8 pages)	Destroy the Voskay Dam
Genre:	Adventure

Comic Story (5 pages)	The Return of Zara
Genre:	Adventure
Characters:	V: Zara

Comic Story (10 pages)	The Planet Where Time Stood Still
Characters:	V: Queen Zirca (I)

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