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Issue: Lightning Comics #5 Public Domain
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagAce Magazines
Brand: An Ace MagazineView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Ace Magazines Inc.
On Sale Date: 01/03/1941
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 8 (7 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 1. Class B periodical. Copyright registration number B 485140.
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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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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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The Mummy

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Jim Mooney (signed)
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Subject Matter
superhero
Flash Lightning
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Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Jim Mooney [as Mooney] (signed)
Jim Mooney [as Mooney] (signed)
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Subject Matter
superhero
Flash Lightning
The old man of the pyramid has endowed Flash Lightning with amazing speed, power and strength...
Flash battles evil Prof. Vatz alias "The Mummy".
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Miscellaneous
15
Per information from a NY Superior Court hearingin December 1941, Ace art director, Fred Gardener, stated on record that James "Jim" Mooney drew this story. Mooney actually signs his name in the first panel of page five.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
crime, superhero
Raven
Beloved by the poor and oppressed, hated by the underworld and wanted by the police...
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Miscellaneous
12
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Jack Alderman (signed)
Jack Alderman (signed)
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Subject Matter
humorous, superhero
Hap Hazard
Hap Hazard, ambitious young copy boy of the Daily Star, mixes it with hatchet men and murderers...
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Miscellaneous
6
The fourth and final tier of the last page consists of the Statement of Ownership.
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Jack Binder (signed)
Jack Binder (signed)
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Subject Matter
adventure
Marvo the Magician
Marvo and his pet monkey, Tito, roam the country in search of adventure...
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10
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Maurice Gutwirth (signed)
Maurice Gutwirth (signed)
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Subject Matter
adventure
Ace McCoy
Ace McCoy and his loyal mechanic-partner, Bill Regan, [...] have been hired to carry 100.000 dollars ransom money...
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Miscellaneous
10
last appearance
Brother of Doom

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Roy Carter
typeset
Subject Matter
crime
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Miscellaneous
2
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
science fiction
Whiz Wilson
Whiz Wilson, young scientist, with the aid of a "futuroscope" which he invented, can project himself to any place in the world at any time in the future...
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Miscellaneous
9

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