Digital Comic Museum > Minute Man 01 (fiche)

Issue: #1
Published: 1941, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing: France Herron
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S. Paper Stock: Newsprint Interior; Color Cover Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Featuring:	Minute Man
Credits:	Pencils: Charles Sultan \| Inks: Charles Sultan \| Letters: typeset
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Minute Man [Jack Weston] The Nazis

Promo (ad From The Publisher) (1 page)
Synopsis:	Illustrated promotional house ad for Whiz and Master Comics, featuring illustrations of all the characters appearing in both magazines.
Credits:	Pencils: various \| Inks: various \| Letters: typeset
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Captain Marvel [Billy Batson] Spy Smasher [Alan Armstrong] Bulletman [Jim Barr] Bulletgirl [Susan Kent] Lance O'Casey Golden Arrow [Roger Parsons] Doctor Voodoo [Hal Carey] Ibis Taia Dan Dare Captain Venture El Carim Zoro Minute Man [Jack Weston] Buck Jones Devil's Dagger [Ken Wyman] Companions 3 [Don Nifty Spike]

Comic Story (16 pages)	The Redemption of Major Von Hartz
Featuring:	Minute Man
Synopsis:	Major Hart wants to put his past of spying for Nazi Germany behind him, but foreign agents try to persuade him otherwise by kidnapping his father and forcing him to do anything he can to embarrass America's army. His first assignment is to betray Fort Stonewall. Minute Man tells the major to go along with their plans while he attempts to rescue the soldier's father.
Credits:	Script: Otto Binder ? \| Pencils: Charles Sultan \| Inks: Charles Sultan
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Minute Man [Jack Weston] Army General Milton Major Hart [a.k.a. Major Von Hartz] Major Hart's Father Nazi Foreign Agents (villains)

Comic Story (14 pages)	No Rest for Minute Man
Featuring:	Minute Man
Synopsis:	Minute Man saves a young lad from Nazi agents while aboard a train and hears from the lad that a crooked political boss named Shuker is involved with those same agents who plan to use devious means for him to be elected first, governor of the state, then dictator. What Shuker doesn't know is that those same agents plan to control the government themselves and use Shuker only as a figure head.
Credits:	Script: Otto Binder ? \| Pencils: Charles Sultan \| Inks: Charles Sultan
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Minute Man [Jack Weston] Gloria (Shuker's Secretary) Shuker (villain, Crooked Political Boss) Nazi Agents (villains, Some Die)

Text Story (2 pages)	Triumph of Time
Synopsis:	Following Public Enemy Number Three, Red Kozlik, to Ekstrom Laboratories, New York rookie policeman O'Grady comes face to face with Ekstrom, who is being held at gun point by the nefarious criminal. Kozlik insists that the professor use his newly invented time machine to send Kozlik back to August 18, 1921. The professor does, but Kozlik discovers that fate has a way of settling old scores.
Credits:	Script: Gerry de la Ree (as Jerry de la Ree) (signed) \| Pencils: ? (spot illustration) \| Inks: ? (spot illustration) \| Letters: typeset
Genre:	Crime
Characters:	Danny O'Grady (rookie Policeman) Professor Ekstrom Red Kozlik (villain, Death)

Comic Story (15 pages)	Illyria, Queen of Spies
Featuring:	Minute Man
Synopsis:	Jack Weston is sent to Barracoon, an island in the Gulf of Mexico that the U.S. government has just purchased for use as a naval base. However, Minute Man must contend with Illyria and her agents who plan to stop the building of the base by stirring up the ancient voodoo deviltry that the island is noted for.
Credits:	Script: Otto Binder ? \| Pencils: Charles Sultan \| Inks: Charles Sultan
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Minute Man [Jack Weston] General Milton Lady Illyria (villain, Queen Of Foreign Spies)

Promo (ad From The Publisher) (1 page)
Synopsis:	Illustrated promotional house ad, with characters featured, for Master Comics.
Credits:	Pencils: various \| Inks: various \| Letters: typeset
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Bulletman [Jim Barr] Bulletgirl [Susan Kent] Captain Venture Zoro El Carim Minute Man [Jack Weston] Buck Jones Companions 3 [Don Nifty Spike]

Comic Story (15 pages)	The Servants of Korozan
Featuring:	Minute Man
Synopsis:	Jack Weston is arrested following the disappearance of Senator Barr's daughter, who was actually kidnapped by Japanese foreign agents, hoping to induce her famous father to quit his insistence that America build up stronger defenses.
Credits:	Script: Otto Binder ? \| Pencils: Charles Sultan \| Inks: Charles Sultan
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Minute Man [Jack Weston] Semator Barr Judy Barr (daughter Of Senator Barr) Korozan (villain, Introduction, Death) Japanese Agents (villains)

Promo (ad From The Publisher) (1 page)
Synopsis:	Illustrated promotional house ad for the latest three issues of: Captain Marvel Adventures #3 (on sale about April 23rd, 1941), Spy Smasher #1 (on sale about June 13, 1941), and Minute Man #? (on sale about May 14, 1941).
Credits:	Pencils: various \| Inks: various \| Letters: typeset
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Minute Man [Jack Weston] Captain Marvel [Billy Batson] Billy Batson Nazi Soldier Spy Smasher [Alan Armstrong]

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