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Issue: Lightning Comics #5

- Attribution History

Publication Date: February 1942

Issue v2 #5
- Sure-Fire Comics
- v1 #4
- v1 #5
- v1 #6
- v2 #1
- v2 #2
- v2 #3
- v2 #4
- ✔ v2 #5
- v2 #6
- v3 #1
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Detail

Issues: #5 of 10 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Ace Magazines

Brand: An Ace Magazine

Indicia Publisher: Ace Magazines Inc.

On Sale Date: 01/02/1942

Volume: 2

Pages: 68

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 10 (8 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Aaron A. Wyn

Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1942, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 1.

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Format

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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Content Items (10 total)

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Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): Jim Mooney (signed)

Inker(s): Jim Mooney (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Lash Lightning

Character(s): Lash Lightning [Robert Morgan]

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Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Jim Mooney (signed)

Inker(s): Jim Mooney (signed)

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Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Lash Lightning

Character(s): Lash Lightning [Robert Morgan]; Franklin Delano Roosevelt (cameo); Linda Larkin (the Vulture's niece); the Vulture [Larkin] (villain, a deranged scientist, introduction)

First Line: From an Egyptian mystic known only as the..........

Synopsis: A deranged scientist steals from his half-brother the blueprints for a flame gun and a formula that could create an impenetrable purple fog that be solidified into a wall. As the Vulture, he operates out of "The Black City in the Sky" to create a difficult time for the United States until he comes face to face with Lash Lightning.

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Pages: 13

Notes: Corrected story title by Craig Delich. Mooney signs his artwork twice. As Jim Mooney on the first page, and J. Mooney on the last.

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Feature(s): Raven

First Line: One night, Danny and Lola are driving...

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Pages: 10

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Red Holmdale (signed)

Inker(s): Red Holmdale

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Feature(s): Dr. Nemesis, Rx

First Line: The boards of directors of Mercy Hospital gather at a special meeting...

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Pages: 10

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Maurice Gutwirth (signed)

Inker(s): Maurice Gutwirth

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Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Marvo

First Line: Peaceful scene, eh Tito?

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Pages: 8

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Feature(s): Cappie Young

Character(s): Cappie Young (first appearance; origin)

First Line: One day as the great masted 'Renown' sails across the Pacific...

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Pages: 8

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Feature(s): Hap Hazard

First Line: Hap Hazard, copy boy on the Daily Star, has his most exciting adventure when he meets a desperate band of bank robbers!

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Pages: 6

Satan's Staircase

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): Cliff Howe

Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 2

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Penciller(s): Mark Schneider [as M. Scheider] (signed)

Inker(s): Mark Schneider (signed)

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Subject Matter

Genres: jungle

Feature(s): Congo Jack

Character(s): Congo Jack; Matu; Dan Wilde; Mary Wilde

First Line: Congo Jack is paddling down the Semliki River...

Synopsis: Jack rescues his old college classmate Dan and wife Mary from the Sudanese for trying to capture a white rhinoceros.

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Pages: 6.78

Notes: Schneider's signature is on the fifth page of the story

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Statement of Ownership on Interior Page(s)

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Genres: informational

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