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Issue: Lightning Comics #6 Public Domain
Publication Date: April 1942
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Issues: #6 of 10 Issues
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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: 02/02/1942
Volume: 2
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 9 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Aaron A. Wyn
Disclose 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. 2.
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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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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Lash Lightning
Character(s): Lash Lightning [Robert Morgan]; The Raven [Danny Dartin]; Doctor Nemesis; Marvo the Magician; Cappie Young; Hap Hazard; Congo Jack; The Eel [Professor Aqua]
First Line: Just as the Eel was hurtling the girl toward the giant press, Lightning blasted his way forward to stop his fiendish plot.
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Lash Lightning Battles the Eel!!

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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Lash Lightning
Character(s): Lash Lightning [Robert Morgan]; The Eel [Professor Aqua] (villain)
Synopsis: Billed as the "Human Fish," Professor Aqua was embittered by his life as a circus freak, so he becomes a criminal mastermind known as the Eel.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Disclose Notes: Script credit from Mark Carlson-Ghost in Alter Ego #144 (January, 2017).
The Raven story in this issue also has a villain called The Eel. Other than the name, there is no indication it is the same character as the villain in this story.
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The Eel's Smuggling Operation

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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Raven
Character(s): The Raven [Danny Dartin]; The Eel [Professor Aqua] (villain)
Synopsis: Raven goes after a jewel smuggling ring lead by The Eel.
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Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Turner script credit suggested by the Who's Who. The Sundell credit from Mark Carlson-Ghost in Alter Ego #144 (January, 2017), based on circumstantial evidence.
There is no indication that this is the same character as the one in the Lash Lightning story also in this issue other than the name “The Eel”.
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The Army Gets Fumed

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Genres: drama
Feature(s): Doctor Nemesis
Character(s): Doctor Nemesis
Synopsis: Dr Nemesis investigates the cause of a mysterious plague.
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Pages: 10
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Museum Artifacts Go Missing

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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Marvo the Magician And Tito
Character(s): Marvo the Magician
Synopsis: Marvo helps a women find her kidnapped father.
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Pages: 8
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Cappie Young
Character(s): Cappie Young; Brask Cooper.
First Line: Cappie Young and his pal Brask Cooper are somewhere in China, the only survivors of Cappy's father's ship, which was wrecked in the China seas...
Synopsis: Cappie and Brask are hired by the Chinese to truck ammunition and supplies along the Burma Rd.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Artist used Milt Caniff's Terry and the Pirates for artistic guidance.
In the previous issue Brask Cooper was called Bras Cooper (short for Nebraska).
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Lippy Larue and his Gang

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Genres: crime
Feature(s): Hap Hazard
Character(s): Hap Hazard
Synopsis: Hap chases a story about a pickpocketing ring.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Art is identical to the "Dameron" signed story in the previous issue.
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Grubstake to Hades

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Benni Wilson Gardner [as Clint Douglas] (credited)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Bid Patton
Character(s): Bid Patton
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: According to Fictionmag Index Clint Douglas was an Ace house pseudonym used by B W Gardner, a pulp author. This story originally appeared in their pulp magazine Western Aces dated Oct 1940.
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The Lane Expedition

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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Congo Jack
Character(s): Congo Jack
Synopsis: Congo Jack attempts to rescue two people kidnapped by a tribe with “iron skin”.
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Pages: 7

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