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Issue: Captain Midnight #9 Public Domain
Publication Date: June 1943
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Issues: #9 of 67 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagFawcett
Brand: A Fawcett PublicationView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Fawcett Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 05/19/1943
Volume: 2
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 8 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Rod Reed ?
Disclose Notes: On sale date from the publication date reported to the U.S. Copyright Office found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1943, New Series, Volume 38, Number 2. Class B periodical. Copyright registration number 590231.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: 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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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, aviation
Feature(s): Captain Midnight
Character(s): Captain Midnight [Captain Jim Albright]
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In Content Item: FlagCaptain Midnight Archives #1 published December 2013
as Captain Midnight #9 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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On Guard, Captain Midnight!

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Captain Midnight
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Mississippi Marauder

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, aviation
Feature(s): Captain Midnight
Character(s): Captain Midnight [Captain Jim Albright]
First Line: America's "breadbasket" threatened! When crop after crop in the fertile Mississippi Valley is mysteriously destroyed,E
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 16
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Bomber's Vengeance

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joseph Millard
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Red Skye
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
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The Silent Wings of Destruction

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, aviation
Feature(s): Captain Midnight
Character(s): Captain Midnight [Captain Jim Albright]; Ichabod Mudd [aka Icky]; Mike (defense plant worker, death); President Franklin D. Roosevelt; Johnny Blair (aircraft pilot, cameo); Herr Strudel (villain, death?); Hermann [aka The Electric Eel] (villain, actual eel, death); other un-named Nazis (villains, many die)
Synopsis: Captain Midnight investigates the mysterious attacks being made on U.S. defense plants, puzzled that enemy aircraft cannot even be heard! He discovers the cause: a gigantic, aircraft carrier-like mother ship, from which the planes take off!
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In Content Item: FlagCaptain Midnight Archives #1 published December 2013
as The Silent Wings of Destruction [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12.66
Disclose Notes: Johnny Blair becomes a regular in the Captain Midnight strip beginning next issue.

Captain Midnight #10, according to the blurb at the end of the story, went on sale June 18th.
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The Black Tornado

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, aviation
Feature(s): Captain Midnight
Character(s): Captain Midnight [Captain Jim Albright]; Ichabod Mudd [aka Icky]; Chuck Ramsay [SS-11]; Joyce Ryan; Baron Vindbagg (villain, death?); other un-named Nazis (villains, many die)
Synopsis: Captain Albriht finds it odd that devastating tornadoes, that have been striking the Middle West, seem only to occur in towns that have U.S. defense plants! Captured by the evil Vindbagg, he helplessly watches as the criminal uses the Captain's Secret Squadron transmitter to send the Squadron members to a false location in Waterfield......but the good Captain turns the tables on the Nazi fiend.
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In Content Item: FlagCaptain Midnight Archives #1 published December 2013
as The Black Tornadoes [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12.66
Disclose Notes: The last 1/3 of page 13 is an illustrated promotion for the Captain Midnight radio show, which features an upper body shot of Midnight and the listing of the radio stations the show is heard on.
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The Personality Kid

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Little Sneezer
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Pages: 6
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The Mechanical Man!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, aviation
Feature(s): Captain Midnight with Samson
Character(s): Captain Midnight [Captain Jim Albright]; Ichabod Mudd [aka Icky]; Joyce Ryan; Chuck Ramsay [SS-11); Samson [aka The Man of Steel] (robot pilot, introduction); von Vool (villain, Nazi spy); Ludwig (villain, Nazi spy)
Synopsis: Captain Albright, who has ust invented a robot pilot named Samson, is preparing to fly the robot to Washington D.C., when several Nazi spies fly off with what they think is the robot. Instead it's actually Icky, who plays robot to fool the Nazis.
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In Content Item: FlagCaptain Midnight Archives #1 published December 2013
as Samson, the Mechanical Man! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 9.5
Disclose Notes: The final 1/3 of page 10 is an illustrated promotional advertisement for Captain Marvel's E-Z Code Finder, featuiring an upper body shot of Captain Marvel, plus a full-sized representation of the code finder, which pictures head views of Bulletman, Captain Midnight, Captain Marvel Jr., Spy Smasher, and a 3/4 length view of Captain Marvel. Captain Marvel gives a code message as well.

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