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Issue: Science Comics #1
Publication Date: February 1940
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Issues: #1 of 8 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagFox
Brand: FPView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Fox Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 01/02/1940
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 11 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Victor Fox
Disclose Notes: 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 444546.

The Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, January-December 1940, Numbers 1-4 lists another issue #1 sent to the copyright office with the publication date of November 25, 1939, copyright number 435618, with a cover date of January 1940. This could have been for an ashcan edition of the title.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Lou Fine
Inker(s): Lou Fine
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Electro
Character(s): Electro [Jim Andrews]
First Line: With a lightning flash Electro suddenly appeared
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In Issue: FlagAction! Mystery! Thrills! Comic Book Covers of the Golden Age: 1933-45 #[nn] published December 2011
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Jack Kirby #1 published January 1997
as Science Comics #1 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
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Origin of the Eagle

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Emil Gershwin ?
Inker(s): Emil Gershwin ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Eagle
Character(s): The Eagle [Bill Powers] (first appearance, origin); Jason (first appearance); The Purple Gang (first appearance, villains)
Synopsis: Bill Powers returns home from vacation and, as the Eagle, captures the Purple Gang.
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Pages: 8
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The Origin of Electro

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Robert Webb ?
Inker(s): Robert Webb ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Electro
Character(s): Electro [Jim Andrews] (first appearance, origin, becomes Dynamo in next issue); Saunders (first appearance); the President's daughter (first appearance); The Gerlandians (first appearance, villains)
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Pages: 12
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The Fang Men of Jupiter

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): George Tuska
Inker(s): George Tuska
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Cosmic Carson
Character(s): Cosmic Carson (first appearance); Roland (first appearance); Fang Men of Jupiter (first appearance, villains, one dies); Okal
First Line: Carson grapples in space with the Fang Men of Jupiter...
Synopsis: Cosmic Carson fights against a band of pirates - the Fang Men of Jupiter.
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Pages: 7
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The Space Slavers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (Arnold Haney)
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Perisphere Payne
Character(s): Perisphere Payne (first appearance); Villon (first appearance, villain, death)
First Line: It is the year 2000, and the American Interplanetary Transport Company has established regular air routes to all the major planets.
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Pages: 8
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First Line: Construct a bomber
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Disclose Notes: Patterns and instructions on how to build a cardboard bomber plane.
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First Line: Build your own battleship!!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Patterns and instructions on how to build a battleship using cardboard.
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Origin of Marga, the Panther Woman

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Emil Gershwin ?
Inker(s): Emil Gershwin ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle, science fiction
Feature(s): Marga
Character(s): Marga [the Panther Woman] (first appearance, origin); Von Dorf (first appearance, villain, death); Ted Grant (first appearance, not DC's Wildcat!)
First Line: Von Dorf, a mad physio-biologist, escaped into the heart of the African jungle from an asylum.
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Pages: 8
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Death on the Air Waves

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Rodney Weems
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Jeff Stone; Dick Gordon; Maxwell
First Line: Jeff Stone climbed to his little attic "studio," and shut the door behind him.
Synopsis: Dick Gordon investigates the death of Jeff Stone and discovers a race of beings that live within radio waves.
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Pages: 2
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The Shrinking Serum

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (Richard Crater)
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Dr. Doom
Character(s): Dr. Doom (first appearance, villain); Jan Swift (first appearance); Wanda (first appearance)
First Line: In a weird laboratory, miles from civilization, the mad Dr. Doom works fiendishly...
Synopsis: While exploring a strange land, Jan and Wanda are captured, and experimented on, by Dr. Doom.
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Pages: 8
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Origin of Navy Jones

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bert Whitman
Penciller(s): Bert Whitman
Inker(s): Bert Whitman
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Navy Jones
Character(s): Navy Jones (first appearance, origin); King of a sub-sea people (first appearance); Princess Coral (first appearance); The prime minister (first appearance, villain)
First Line: Disaster looms, as Navy Jones, commander of the Z-81, journeys on his undersea voyage...
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