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Issue: Amazing Man Comics #24 Public Domain
Publication Date: October 1941
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Issues: #24 of 22 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagCentaur
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Comic Corporation of America
On Sale Date: 08/04/1941
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 11 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Data from Jerry Bails index cards & Howard Keltners Golden Age index used for this comic. Sequence update by Darci.

The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1941, New Series, Vol. 36, No. 4.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; color interior
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
Penciller(s): Myron Strauss (signed)
Inker(s): Myron Strauss (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Aman the Amazing-Man
Character(s): Aman the Amazing Man [John Aman]
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Aman the Amazing-Man
Character(s): Amazing-Man [John Aman]; The Vulture (villain)
First Line: A network of saboteurs headed by a mysterious leader called the Vulture...
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Pages: 15
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): John F. Kolb
Penciller(s): John F. Kolb
Inker(s): John F. Kolb
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Minimidget
Character(s): Minimidget
First Line: Big Mike was used to having things his own way...
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Pages: 7
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The World's Strongest Girl

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Martin Filchock
Penciller(s): Martin Filchock
Inker(s): Martin Filchock
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Martin Filchock
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Mighty Man
Character(s): Mighty Man; Super-Ann
Synopsis: Mighty Man meets Super-Ann the world's stongest girl.
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Pages: 8
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ray Houlihan
Inker(s): Ray Houlihan
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Life At Its Worst
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: humor
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A Soldier's Courage

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Robert Turner
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): A Soldier's Courage
Character(s): Chuck Connors
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Pages: 2
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): H. (Henry) Weston Taylor [as Taylor] (signed)
Penciller(s): Harry Francis Campbell (signed)
Inker(s): Harry Francis Campbell (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The King of Darkness
Character(s): The King of Darkness [Bruce King] (radio engineer, introduction, origin); Sergeant Burke (Policeman, introduction); head Nazi agent (villain, introduction); foreign nation agents [Carl; Hans; Fritz] (villains, introduction for all, all die)
First Line: Bruce King, young radio engineer, stumbled on a strange phenomenon while working with ultra short radio waves.
Synopsis: A dictatorial foreign nation is very much interested in the invention of a death ray by Bruce King and sends out agents to the United States to capture it. They confront King, who switches to his special uniform and creates total darkness in his lab which creates a numbing cold that incapacitates the agents. However, a Nazi agent, noting the failure of the three agents, kills all three and pins the crime on Bruce King.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Hobo Harper
Character(s): John "Hobo" Harper (Introduction)
First Line: John Harper, young millionaire, suddenly repented over his lazy misspent youth...
Synopsis: Former millionaire Harper gives away his money and becomes adventure-loving hobo.
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Pages: 7
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Monkey Business

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Art Helfant
Penciller(s): Art Helfant
Inker(s): Art Helfant
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Phil and Bill
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Pages: 2
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Origin of the Blue Lady

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Frank Frollo (signed)
Penciller(s): Frank Frollo (signed)
Inker(s): Frank Frollo (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Blue Lady
Character(s): The Blue Lady [Lucille Martin] (novelist, introduction, origin); Larry Grant (Lucille's sweetheart, introduction); Lotus (faithful maid of Chin Liang, introduction, death); unnamed banker (introduction, death); Sing Thang (introduction); Chinese gangsters [Lee; others unnamed] (villains, introduction for all)
Synopsis: Novelist Lucille Martin is on a boat headed home from China where she was getting proper atmosphere for her new novel, when the maid of Chin Liang informs her that she is carrying a valuable jade idol to New York for her master, and that three enemy agents are on board to stop her. The maid, soon to die, gives Lucille a "Bluebird" ring and the idol to deliver to America. Once home, Lucille finds her home ransacked and the idol missing. When she accidentally drops the ring and steps on it, a mysterious gas is emitted which gives Lucille Martin super-powers, which she uses to retrieve the idol.
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Pages: 8
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Nightshade -- Nemisis of Gangdom [sic]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Charles Verral
Penciller(s): Homer Fleming
Inker(s): Homer Fleming
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Nightshade
Character(s): Nightshade [Howard Hall] (wealthy scientist, introduction and origin); Princess Anna (of Balkania, introduction); Anna's child (Balkania Crown Prince, introduction); Balkania's Consul (introduction); Prince Dumka (of Balkania, introduction); Ivar Kotescu (villain, introduction); Kotescu's gang [Joe; rest unnamed] (villains, introduction for all)
Synopsis: Howard Hall notes a crime in progress and becomes Nightshade to deal with it by saving a young woman and her offspring. The child wears a strange bracelet bearing the coat-of-arms of the nation of Balkania, and it seems that Prince Dumka of Balkania wants to marry the princess and has hired crooks to kidnap her, kill the child, and return the princess to Balkania.
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Pages: 7

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