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Issue: Lightning Comics #1 Public Domain
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Publisher: FlagAce Magazines
Brand: An Ace MagazineView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Ace Magazines, Inc.
On Sale Date: 04/02/1941
Volume: 2
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 9 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Aaron A. Wyn
Disclose Notes: On sale date from the publication date as submitted to the U.S. Copyright Office found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1941, New Series, Volume 36, Number 2. Class B periodical. Copyright registration number B 499052.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Full Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S.
Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior
Binding: Saddle-Stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Jim Mooney [as Mooney] (signed)
Jim Mooney [as Mooney] (signed)
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Subject Matter
superhero
Flash Lightning
Flash Lightning [Robert Morgan]; Amy Lane; The Mastermind; The Mummy [Professor Vatz]
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Jim Mooney (signed)
Jim Mooney (signed)
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Subject Matter
superhero
Flash Lightning
Flash Lightning [Robert Morgan]; Amy Lane (scientist); The Old Man of the Pyramids; The Mastermind (villain); The Mummy [Professor Vatz] (villain, death)
Lightning received the gift of speed, strength and power...
The Mastermind constructs a weird machine in a castle owned by scientist Amy Lane, a machine that attracts lightning into the room it's in and from which the Mastermind can absorb lightning and gain powers similar to those of Flash Lightning. Then he visits the Mummy at a hospital and convinces him to provide him with the villain's radium protective coating and tell him how to use it so that he can protect himself from bullets and other weapons.
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FlagMen of Mystery Comics #29 published January 2001
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Miscellaneous
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Mastermind apparently dies at the end of this story, but returns in the next two issues.

Inks credit from article in Alter Ego #133 (June, 2015).
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
superhero
The Raven
The Raven [Detective Sgt. Danny Dartin]; Lola Lash (Danny's fiancée); Police Chief Lash (Lola's father); un-named Police Commissioner; Mr. Calhoun (villain, President of the Chasmber of Commerce); Mike (villain)
Like an avenging angel, the Raven, swoops down upon underworld haunts...
While eating at an lunch wagon, Danny sees people going in and out of a back room, and figures that something illicit is going on. Further investigation uncovers a secret gambling den, which he soon rounds up and has jailed.
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Miscellaneous
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Harry Anderson
Harry Anderson
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Subject Matter
superhero
Doctor Nemesis Rx
Dr. Nemesis [Dr. Jim Bradley]; Mike Johnson (construction foreman); Jake (ambulance driver); Dr. Fowler (surgeon); Tom (small boy); Max McNulty (villain, contractor, death); Al Mirch (villain, McNulty's business partner)
Young Dr. Jim Bradley, hospital interne, has discovered a truth serum which...
Dr. Nemesis takes on a pair of corrupt building contractors who are using inferior materials in their building projects, causing buildings to collapse unexpectedly.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
superhero
Marvo the Magician and Tito
Marvo; Tito (a monkey); June Reeves (manager of a charity vaudeville show); Squire Baxter (villain); Joe (villain); Spike (villain)
Marvo... magician and master of illusions, while traveling through the country in search of adventure...
While having a flat tire repaired in Pleasantville, Marvo decides to take in a vaudeville show, whose gate receipts go to an orphan's home. When thugs ruin the show by tossing vegetables at the entertainers, Marvo decides to put on his own show!
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I Knew Buffalo Bill

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as "Old-Timer"] (signed)
typeset
Subject Matter
biography
Buffalo Bill Cody (death); Mr. Cody (Buffalo Bill's father, death); Kit Carson; President Abraham Lincoln; Lew Simpson; Jim "Wild Bill" Hickok (death); J. B. Studley (actor); Ned Buntline; Bill Mulligan (buffalo hunter); Billy Comstock; Texas Jack Omohundro; Frank Mordaunt (actor); Mlle. Morlacchi (actress); Harry Mainhall (actor); Jennie Fisher (actress); Lizzie Safford (actress); Eliza Hudson (actress); J. V. Arlington (actor); Major John Burke (Bill Cody's press agent); Mrs. Lew Decker (Bill Cody's sister); Chief Yellow Hand (villain, death)
Detailed biography of Buffalo Bill Cody.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Mark Schneider (signed)
Mark Schneider (signed)
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Subject Matter
jungle, science fiction
Congo Jack
Congo Jack; Clem Jones (Jack's friend); the Molemen [Sir Lugi; un-named others] (villains, green men from the bowels of the Earth); Queen Moletta (villain, Molemen's leader)
In the African Congo, earth suddenly explodes...
In the African Congo, weirdly garbed green invaders burst forth on the scene, killing local natives. One of the escapees alerts Jack and Clem of the danger, and both go to investigate.
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Gus Schrotter
Gus Schrotter
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Subject Matter
adventure, humorous
Hap Hazard
Hap Hazard (copy boy of the Daily Star); un-named Daily Star City Editor; un-named store clerk; un-named boss of the counterfeiters (villain); Bugs (villain)
Here's the cigars and change of the twenty bucks, chief...
Hap goes down to a local store to buy cigars for his editor, and, when he returns and gives his boss the cigars and change, he is told that one of the bills is counterfeit. Since the city is being flooded with such bills, Hap is told to go back to the store and get a real bill to replace it. When he does, he sees the girl clerk being kidnapped.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Red Holmdale ?
Red Holmdale ?
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Subject Matter
science fiction
Whiz Wilson
Whiz Wilson; Professor Morrow (visiting Earthman); Ellen Morrow (his daughter); the Mongolians; the Zanians (villains)
One day Whiz Wilson sets the dials of his futuroscope to take him to the planet Mongo, in the year 2300...
Whiz sets his Futuroscope to the year of 2300 and is transported to the Planet Mongo, where the four-armed Mongolians consider him, a Professor and his daughter to be their enemies. However, when a balloon corps from an enemy planet attacks, Whiz and company help to overcome them and save Mongo.
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Miscellaneous
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