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Issue: Dynamo #1
Publication Date: August 1966
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Issues: #1 of 4 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagTower
Brand: Tower Action SeriesView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Tower Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 06/08/1966
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: On-sale date is the median of four different dates, handwritten or stamped, on four different copies, with a range of sixteen days.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: Squarebound
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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[untitled]

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In Content Item: FlagAstounding Stories #33 published January 1968
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagAstounding Stories #148 published January 1980
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagAstounding Stories #195 published January 1988
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Pages: 1
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Menace from the Moon!

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Character(s): Dynamo [Leonard Brown]; Noman; Alice
Synopsis: Observatories on Earth are being mysteriously destroyed. The President of the United States calls Noman and Dynamo in for a mission to investigate the suspected source of the destruction, a military base on the moon. Noman discovers a civilization living on the dark side of the moon who wishes their existence to remain unknown to mankind.
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Pages: 14
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A Day in the Life of Dynamo

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Character(s): Dynamo [Leonard Brown]; Red Dragon; Red Star; THUNDER; Iron Maiden; Subterraneans; Overlord
Synopsis: Len Brown plan on asking the Chief for a raise, but before he can get to it, adventure whisks him away. First to Hong Kong, where he is at the mercy of the Red Dragon, then to the subterranean world, where he must stop the Overlord's ambition of creating nuclear Armageddon on the surface world. Help comes in the unlikely guise of the Iron Maiden. By the end of the adventure, Len finds that his chance to ask for a raise has passed him by.
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In Content Item: FlagEscaravelho Azul v1 #12 published January 1969
as Um Dia na Vida de Dynamo [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 10
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Back to the Stone Age!

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Character(s): Dynamo [Leonard Brown]; Dr. Sparta (villain); Demo (villain); Wilbur [lackey of Dr. Sparta] (villain)
Synopsis: THUNDER makes the mistake of putting Demo in the same prison cell as Dr. Sparta. The two pool their resources, and are sprung from prison by Dr. Sparta's minion, Wilbur. The combination of Demo's cavemen and Sparta's dinosaurs are enough to keep Dynamo's hands full.
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In Content Item: FlagEscaravelho Azul v1 #19 published January 1970
as Luta com Dinossauros [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Plot and script by Battersby; revised by Wood and Adkins. Info from Battersby's work records as published in Alter Ego # 152, May 2018.
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Dynamo Meets the Amazing Andor

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Character(s): Dynamo [Leonard Brown]; Andor (first appearance; villain); Subterraneans (villains); Overlord [leader of Subterraneans]; Lord Uru [Subterranean scientist, dies]
Synopsis: The subterranean scientist Lord Uru reports on his latest project to overthrow the surface dwellers to the Overlord. His project involved raising an abandoned surface baby, and subjecting the child to treatments to control its mind and give it superhuman strength. The human, named Andor, infiltrates THUNDER, and nearly kills Dynamo before freeing himself from mind control. Andor returns to the subterranean world and kills Lord Uru.
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Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: "Work on script" per Battersby's work records as published in Alter Ego # 152, May 2018.
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Wonder Weed, Super Hero

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Feature(s): Agent Weed
Character(s): Weed [William Wylie]; Dynamo [Leonard Brown]; Lightning [Guy]; Chief; Noman; Doctor Oom (villain)
Synopsis: Weed is an ordinary THUNDER agent with no special suit or powers, and he envies the others. Doctor Oom, a villainous master of telepathy and hypnotism, exploits Weed's envy by planting the hypnotic suggestion that he really has superpowers. Oom lures the super-powered members of THUNDER into a trap, and it takes Weed's wit and bravery to save the day for THUNDER.
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Pages: 10

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