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Issue: Lightning Comics #1 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: 04/03/1942
Volume: 3
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
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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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Title Page
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Subject Matter
superhero
Lash Lightning; The Sword
Lash Lightning [Robert Morgan]; Lightning Girl [Isobel Blake]; The Sword [Arthur Lake]
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The cover depicts a team-up of Lash Lightning and the Sword not found inside the issue.
The Teacher and the Lesson of Doom

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
superhero
Lash Lightning
Lash Lightning [Robert Morgan]; Lightning Girl [Isobel Blake] (introduction, origin); Col. John Blake (introduction, Lightning Girl's uncle); Capt. Adam Blake (introduction, Lightning Girl's father, death); Admiral Wahl (Dutch Harbor Commander); Admiral Collier; the Teacher (villain, introduction)
Lightning and Lightning Girl must face and defeat the Teacher, who seeks to: 1) kill Lightning; 2) destroy the American Fleet; 3) destroy the American Army at Dutch Harbor; and 4) placing the blame for all of this traitorous activity on Captain John Blake and his daughter, Isobel.
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FlagMen of Mystery Comics #82 published June 2010
as The Teacher and the Lesson of Doom [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
13
Next appears in Four Favorites #6.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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adventure
Hap Hazard
Hap Hazard
How could Hap Hazard prevent the escape of a trio of killers, when he himself was locked in a murderer's cell?
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Miscellaneous
6
Next appears in Super-Mystery Comics Volume 3 #3 (#15).
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
superhero
The Sword
The Sword [Arthur Lake]
Our story begins shortly before a meeting of the Lake Aircraft Company's board of directors!
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Miscellaneous
12
Last appearance in Captain Courageous Comics #6 and next appears in Super-Mystery Comics #15.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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adventure
Dr. Nemesis, Rx
Doctor Nemisis [Jim Bradley]
Terror freezes City Hospital when the surgeon with his scalpel of doom...
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Miscellaneous
10
Next appears in Super-Mystery Comics Volume 3 #3 (#15).

Signature is consistent with Bruce Currieā€˜s signature at https://fineart.ha.com/itm/paintings/bruce-currie-american-b-1911-a-girl-in-the-forestoil-on-canvas-26-x-20-1-4-inches-660-x-514-cm-signed/a/5057-64254.s
Deputy of Doom

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
typeset
Subject Matter
western
Ben Dixon (Deputy); Jed Haley (Sheriff); Reece Matcher (villain)
Reece Matcher, an old acquaitance of Ben, deputy sheriff of Poker Bend, attempts to blackmail Ben into killing the sheriff.
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Miscellaneous
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Cliff Howe is a house pseudonym used by Ace.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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occult, superhero
Marvo
Marvo; Tito (a monkey)
During a nightclub engagement, death strikes in the form of murder!
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Miscellaneous
8
Last appearance.
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Cappie Young
Cappie Young; Brask Cooper; Ling Po
Cappie Young, his pal Brask Cooper, and their Chinese friend, Ling Po...
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Miscellaneous
5
Last appearance.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
superhero
The Raven
The Raven [Sgt. Danny Dartin]; the Lizard (villain, introduction, death)
Like an evil, slimy monster from a prehistoric swamp...
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Miscellaneous
8
The artist's signature appears in the final panel of the last page.

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