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Issue: Weird Comics #2 Public Domain
Publication Date: May 1940
 
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagFox
Brand: FPView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Fox Publications, Inc.
On Sale Date: 03/15/1940
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 10 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Victor Fox
Disclose Notes: The Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, January-December 1940, Numbers 1-4, lists this as volume 1, the date of this issue as January 1940 with a publication date of December 22, 1939, which is quite a few months before this issue's actual date. Second class permit. Copyright number 440219. Could be a publication error or perhaps an ashcan submission to the Copyright Office.

The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1940, New Series, Vol. 35, No. 2. The date of the issue is given as May 1940 with a publication date of March 15, 1940. Copyright number B449440.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
?
Lou Fine
Lou Fine
?
typeset
Subject Matter
fantasy
Dr. Mortal
Dr. Mortal
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Miscellaneous
1
Thor Goes To War

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Pierce Rice
Arturo Cazeneuve
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Thor
Thor [Grant Farrel]; Glenda; The Nazis (villains, some die)
Grant calls Glenda up for a dinner date, but discovers she is sailing for Europe. Realizing the danger because of the war, he joins her aboard ship, which is soon sunk by a Nazi mine. On a raft, Grant sees a cruiser in the mined waters attempting to follow and rescue them, so Grant becomes Thor and blows up the mines. Now safe, Glenda tells Thor that she is heading for France to warn them of a surprise attack on Paris.
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Miscellaneous
12
Attack On Bango

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Louis Cazeneuve
Louis Cazeneuve
?
?
Subject Matter
Sorceress of Zoom
King of Bango; Prince Paul; King of Zoda; Princess Lydia
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Miscellaneous
8
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Fred Schwab
Fred Schwab
Fred Schwab
?
Fred Schwab
Subject Matter
Solar Plexis
Which way to Mars?
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Miscellaneous
2
Zom the Space Pirate

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Don Rico
Don Rico
?
?
Subject Matter
Blast Bennett
Zom
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Miscellaneous
8
The Lion-Man

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Bert Whitman
Bert Whitman
Bert Whitman
?
?
Subject Matter
Dr. Mortal
Dr. Mortal; Lion-Men; Salvo
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Miscellaneous
6
The Return of the Voodoo Man

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
? [as Alan Spectre]
?
?
?
Subject Matter
Voodoo Man
The Hungun
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Miscellaneous
8
The Speaking Rock

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
typeset
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
2
The Giant Lizard Invasion

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
? [as Arnold Mazos]
?
?
?
Subject Matter
Bird Man
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Miscellaneous
8
Dwellers of the Sea

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
? [as Phillips Judge]
?
?
?
Subject Matter
Typhon
Cecilia; Mike; Neptune; mermen
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Miscellaneous
10

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