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Issue: Amazing Man Comics #9 Public Domain
Publication Date: February 1940
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Issues: #9 of 22 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagCentaur
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Comic Corporation of America
On Sale Date: 12/13/1939
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 16 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Various sequence notes corrected by Darci, September 2007. Editor per Ownership Statement on inside front cover. Indicia:

February 1940. Number 9. AMAZING MAN COMICS is published monthly by Comic Corporation of America, 29 Worthington St., Springfield, Mass., Editorial and Executive offices: 215 Fourth Avenue, New York, N. Y. Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at Springfield, Mass. Single copies 10c. Yearly subscription $1.00 in the U.S.A. (other countries $1.50). Copyright 1939 by Comic Corporation of America. Contents must not be reproduced without permission. No actual person is named or delineated in this fiction magazine. Ptd. in U.S.A.

On sale date from the publication date found at the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, January-December 1940, Numbers 1-4. Second class permit. Copyright number 439469.
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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
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Aman the Amazing-Man
Character(s): Amazing Man [John Aman]; the Nazis
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In Content Item: FlagThe Bill Everett Archives #2 published September 2013
as Amazing Man Comics #9 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
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Books for Boys and Girls

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Comic Corp. of America
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Pages: 0.15
Disclose Notes: Advertisement for Lone Ranger books published by the publisher of this comic book.
Upper left corner of the inside front cover.
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Statement of the Ownership, Management, Circulation Etc.

Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joseph J. Hardie; Berta M. Holcepl (notary)
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): Comic Corporation of America (owner); Joseph J. Hardie (owner, publisher); E. L. Angel (owner)
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Statement of ownership of "Amazing-Man Comics, published monthly at Springfield, Mass., for October 1, 1939."
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Pages: 0.15
Disclose Notes: All addresses for given as 220 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y.
Bertha M. Holcepl, Notary public, Kings County.
Managing editor listed as "none".
Lower left corner of inside front cover.
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For 1940 It's the Centaur Group!

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Feature(s): The Centaur Group
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Pages: 0.7
Disclose Notes: Identity of "Peter" from Jerry Bails' Who's Who.
The Centaur Group books are Keen Detective Funnies, Amazing Mystery Funnies, Amazing-Man Comics and Funny Pages.
Right side inside front cover.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Aman the Amazing-Man
Character(s): Amazing-Man [John Aman]; Elsie (a nurse); Pat (a nurse)The Great Question (villain); un-named German Leutnant (villain); Herman (villain); Karl (villain); Erich (villain, intern, death); Wilhelm (villain); Joseph (villain); other Nazis (villains, some die)
First Line: Aman, the "Amazing-Man", having abandoned his plan to avenge the misdeeds...
Synopsis: Escaping from the clutches of the Nazis, thanks to "The Green Mist," Aman steals a German plane and heads for Berlin. He is shot down, injured, and once again captured. While in the hospital, the Great Question mentally contacts Aman and demands he escape and head for Tibet.
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Pages: 10
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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): King of the South Seas
Character(s): Doris McAllister; Sir Oliver King; Jeffers; Mr. Dites; The King [Roger King]; Dr. Wellesly (castaway); Mr. Jenkins (King's partner, dies)
First Line: Doris, Sir Oliver King, First Mate Jeffers...
Synopsis: The King is revealed to be Roger King, Sir Oliver's missing son. When the King gets into a fight with Jenkins over the treatment of his prisoners King hits his head. Thinking the King is dead the natives begin an attack on the white people. Jenkins sacrifices his life to help the others escape the island with the King.
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Jungle Battles

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Genres: jungle
Feature(s): Jay Douglas
Character(s): Jay Douglas (paleontologist); Kelinga (guide); Ka-No (guide)
Synopsis: Jay hunts dinosaurs in South America, encountering a menacing stegosaurus.
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Disclose Notes: vs. dinosaur in jungle
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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Iron Skull
Character(s): Iron Skull; Mr. Leighton (aircraft executive); Mr. Ryan (Naval intelligence); Jeff (pilot); Richards (pilot); Ludwig (spy, skipper, dies); Otto (coal man)
First Line: Late in the year 1970, twenty years after the Second World War...
Synopsis: Iron Skull investigates missing rocket planes. Ludwig has been blasting them from the sky with his invisible ray then collecting the fallen planes aboard his steamship. Iron Skull pilots a rocket plane to learn what's happening. Confronting Ludwig Iron Skull throws him into the furnace of the ship then destroys the invisible ray.
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Pages: 9
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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Magician from Mars
Character(s): Magician from Mars; Bill Wend (amateur pianist); Elemental (giant green monster)
First Line: The story starts in a small rural town...
Synopsis: A mad professor makes an alliance with an unearthly Elemental. The Magician from Mars grows in size to battle the monster. She dispatches the monster by singing 'the most beautiful song in the world' at him.
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Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Minimidget
Character(s): Minimidget; Ritty; Jake (robber, dies); Smiley (robber, dies); Mahoney (policeman)
First Line: Say, Jake!
Synopsis: Jake and Smily kidnap Minimidget and Ritty to force the duo to rob a bank for them. Minimidget escapes them and phones the police; the two robbers die in a shoot-out with the police.
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Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Chuck Hardy; Land Beneath the Sea
Character(s): Chuck Hardy; Jerry Peterson; Oxan; Ciro (king of Quadropel Men); Quadropel Men (four-armed green men)
First Line: After the death of their treacherous guide...
Synopsis: Jerry is kidnapped by the Quadropel Men, who want to sacrifice her to their god of steam. Oxan and Chuck rescue her. Oxan keeps the head of a victim as a trophy.
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Pages: 7
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The Green Mist

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Aman the Amazing-Man
Character(s): Amazing Man [John Aman]; Professor Khosov Matulay
Synopsis: Professor Matulay tries to start an uprising at the asylum where he's kept but Amazing Man stops him.
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Pages: 2
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The Devil Dogs

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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Mighty Man
Character(s): Mighty Man [Scott Pearson] (introduction); the Dogman (villain); Sunny
Synopsis: Mighty Man, a 12' giant, leaves the Valley of Giants to wage war on crime, and his first case is to battle The Dogman and his devil dogs. The Dogman's master has created a formula which can be traced by his dogs across any distance, making it impossible for men to escape him. Mighty Man battles the Dogman while the inventor of the formula is doused in his own chemical then killed by his dogs.
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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Shark
Character(s): The Shark; Captain von Sclagian (pirate)
First Line: Out on the high seas, a fishing schooner...
Synopsis: The Shark battles von Sclagian's submarine, which has been sinking and plundering ships in the Atlantic.
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This Beautiful Desk for Only $1.00

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Feature(s): Remington Noiseless Deluxe Portable Typerwriter
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Boys, Girls! Select New & Unusual Gifts from This Ad or Sensational New Catalog

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Feature(s): Johnson Smith & Co.
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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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