XOW Logo
  • Location
    • Home
    • Issue Detail, List Content Items
in for
   
by
Facebook Logo
Report a Bug Ask for Support Review Site Apply to be an Editor
Issue: Science Comics #4
Publication Date: May 1940
Previous Base Issue Previous Issue Variant Next Issue Variant Next Base Issue
 
Disclose Detail
Issues: #4 of 8 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagFox
Brand: FPView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Fox Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 03/28/1940
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 9 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Victor Fox
Disclose Notes: On sale date from the publication date found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, 1940, Number 2. Second class permit. Copyright number 451191.
  Does this data need corrections? Become an editor.
Disclose Format
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
Format Notes:  
Disclose Reprinted In3
reprinted 3 times as Content Items in other Issues.
Disclose Reprinted From0
There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
Disclose Images1
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
Assets0
 
spacer
Disclose Content Items (9 total)
Disclose Issue Images
[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Joe Simon
Inker(s): Joe Simon
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Cosmic Carson
Character(s): Cosmic Carson
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose
The Wire of Doom

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Dick Briefer ? [as Harold Weber] (credited)
Penciller(s): Dick Briefer
Inker(s): Dick Briefer
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Dynamo
Character(s): The Leader (first appearance; villain)
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
Disclose
Prof. Piccardo Will Ascend Into Stratosphere

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Lester Raye] (credited)
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Eagle
Character(s): G-13 and other spies (first appearance; villains; death); Prof. Piccardo (first appearance)
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose
The Attack of Iako

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jack Kirby; Joe Simon? [as Michael Griffith] (credited)
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby [as Michael Griffith] (signed)
Inker(s): Jack Kirby [as Michael Griffith] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Jack Kirby
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Cosmic Carson
Character(s): Cosmic Carson; Elramis (introduction); Major Lang (introduction); Iako (villain, introduction)
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Jack Kirby #1 published January 1997
as Death Strikes in the Martian Night [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagGolden-Age Greats #12 published January 1998
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSupermen! The First Wave of Comic Book Heroes 1936-1941 #[nn] published February 2009
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose
The Stolen City

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Arnold Hardy] (credited)
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Perisphere Payne
Character(s): Bonto (first appearance; villain; death); Janice (first appearance)
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose
Ivory City

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as James T. Royal] (credited)
Penciller(s): Emil Gershwin ?
Inker(s): Emil Gershwin ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Marga, The Panther Woman
Character(s): Marga; Ashta (first appearance; villain; death)
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose
The Capellian War Monster

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Martin Burstein [as Martin A. Brusten] (credited)
Penciller(s): ? (spot illustration)
Inker(s): ? (spot illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Comet Frank
Character(s): Comet Frank (first appearance)
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose
Attack on Jupiter

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Richard Crater] (credited)
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Dr. Doom
Character(s): Dr. Doom (villain); Jan (hero); Wanda (heroine)
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose
Trapped By the Prime Minister

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bert Whitman [as Frank Pensley] (credited)
Penciller(s): Bert Whitman [as Frank Pensley] (credited)
Inker(s): Bert Whitman [as Frank Pensley] (credited)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Navy Jones
Character(s): The Prime Minister (villain); Sharks Finn (first appearance; villains); Queen Nina (first appearance)
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Navy Jones revealed as the great-great-grandson of Davy Jones (locker also revealed)

Site designed and hosted by XOWTech, Inc..
Any questions or problems with this site should be directed to REMOVE-webmaestro-THESE@xowcomics.com.

XOW, XOWComics.com, XOWTech and XOWTech.com are registered trademarks of XOWTech, Inc.
© XOWTech, Inc., 2010 - 2024. All rights reserved.

Some data courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution license.