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Issue: Amazing Man Comics #8 Public Domain
Publication Date: December 1939
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Issues: #8 of 22 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagCentaur
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Comic Corporation of America
On Sale Date: 11/13/1939
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 13 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Data from Jerry Bails index cards and Howard Keltner's Golden Age index.

On sale date from the publication date and volume number found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 34, 1939, Number 4. Class B periodical. Copyright number B 435648.

Comic Corporation of America's address given as 29 Worthington Street, Springfield, Massachusetts. Editorial and executive offices address given as 220 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York. Printed in U.S.A.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; color interior
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Bill Everett [as Everett] (signed)
Inker(s): Bill Everett [as Everett] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero, war
Feature(s): Aman the Amazing-Man
Character(s): The Amazing Man [John Aman]
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In Content Item: FlagThe Bill Everett Archives #1 published December 2011
as Amazing Man Comics #8 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
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Uncle Joe's Christmas Treat: Free Gifts for All!

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Uncle Joe]
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.8
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover. Includes indicia.

A questionnaire for readers to fill out about what they expect to get for Christmas.
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Special Offers for Boys and Girls

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): ? (illustrations)
Inker(s): ? (illustrations)
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.2
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover. Shares page with the questionnaire.

Advertisements include special offers for Cross-Words Card Game and Picture Puzzle Book from Centaur Publications; a promotional advertisement for Amazing Mystery Funnies; advertisements for stamp collectors from Tatman Coin Company of Springfield, Massachusetts; Christmas fireworks from the Spencer Fireworks Company of Polk, Ohio; and for developing roll film from Club Photo Service of LaCrosse, Wisconsin.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Everett (signed)
Penciller(s): Bill Everett (signed)
Inker(s): Bill Everett (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero, war
Feature(s): Aman the Amazing-Man
Character(s): Amazing-Man [John Aman]; Pierre (French soldier); the Nazis (villains, many die)
First Line: In Tibet, 25 years ago, the Council of Seven selected an orphan...
Synopsis: Learning about war being declared in Europe, the Amazing Man changes into the Green Mist, heads for the airport, and takes his fighter plane across the Atlantic to fight German planes in France. Involved in a aerial dogfight, Aman is shot down and captured by the Germans, who send him to Concentration Camp 23365AC.
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Pages: 10
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The Return of the Cat Man

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Tarpe Mills ?
Penciller(s): Tarpe Mills (signed)
Inker(s): Tarpe Mills (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Tarpe Mills
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Cat-Man
Character(s): Cat-Man [Barton Stone]; Doris Gorman (writer); Joseph Gypsy Greco (wanted man)
Synopsis: Disguised as an old lady, Cat-Man will catch Gypsy at his hotel hide out.
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Pages: 4
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Chapter II

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Harold Hughes (signed)
Inker(s): Harold Hughes (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): King of the South Seas
Character(s): Jeffers (mate); The King (pirate); Butang; Doris McAllister; William Dites; Sir Oliver King; Marangi
Synopsis: The King's men board and capture a passing steamer in the South Seas.
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Pages: 4
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Burgos (signed)
Penciller(s): Carl Burgos (signed)
Inker(s): Carl Burgos (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Iron Skull
Character(s): Iron Skull; Magno (Villain); Steve (guard, dies); Scarti (gangster, dies)
First Line: Crime wave followed crime wave after the great World War of 1950...
Synopsis: Magno is organizing the crooks to wipe out Iron Skull.
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Pages: 9
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): John Giunta (signed)
Inker(s): Mike Mirando (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Magician from Mars
Character(s): Magician from Mars [Jane Q-X3]; Zeke (cowboy)
First Line: Here's...the Magician from Mars...
Synopsis: The Magician from Mars saves a man jumping from a bridge and a cowboy at the rodeo.
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Pages: 7
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): John Kolb (signed)
Inker(s): John Kolb (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Minimidget the Supermidget
Character(s): Minimidget; Mitty; The Power (villain); Jose; Mike; Spud
First Line: Look at that big yellow car, Ritty...
Synopsis: The midgets are taken prisoner and brought to The Power on his stronhold at castle Rock.
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Pages: 6
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Loco Lobo

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): David C. Cooke
Penciller(s): ? [as B. T.] (signed)
Inker(s): ? [as B. T.] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Drake Hanley; Sheriff Carey Phelan
Synopsis: Even in the deep mesa, the hand can be faster than the eye.
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Pages: 2
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Frank Thomas (signed)
Penciller(s): Frank Thomas (signed)
Inker(s): Frank Thomas (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Chuck Hardy; Land Beneath the Sea
Character(s): Chuck Hardy; Oxan; Jerry Peterson; King Kustan; Princess Istrid; Leer; Kolo (Istrid's lizard); two-headed Reptilis
First Line: Oxan, there seems to be much gaiety in the courtyard!
Synopsis: Chuck and his friends are starting on an expedition with Leer as guide, and he is ordered by Princess Istrid to kill them on the way.
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Pages: 7
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The Football Mystery

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Martin Filchock; Frank Filchock (story idea suggestion)
Penciller(s): Martin Filchock (signed)
Inker(s): Martin Filchock (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Mighty Man
Character(s): Mighty Man (12 foot giant)
Synopsis: Mighty Man plays football against a team of men who have been operated on to obey the will of a mad scientist.
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Pages: 7
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Lew Glanzman (signed)
Penciller(s): Lew Glanzman (signed)
Inker(s): Lew Glanzman (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Shark
Character(s): The Shark; Kirk (fisherman); Johnny (gang chauffeur); The Fishermen Gang (gangsters); Phil Davis (fisherman, dies)
First Line: On the outskirts of a fishing town, trouble's afoot...
Synopsis: The Shark is an amazing under-sea creature serving justice, has webbed hands and feet, and the son of a mermaid and Neptune.
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Pages: 8

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