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Issue: Superworld Comics #2
Publication Date: May 1940
 
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Publisher: FlagKomos Publications
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Indicia Publisher: Komos Publications Inc
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 14 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Hugo Gernsback
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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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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Frank Paul (signed)
Frank Paul (signed)
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?
Subject Matter
science fiction
Mitey Powers
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Miscellaneous
1
Zaggar-/X, the Madman of Mars

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Charles Hornig
?
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?
?
Subject Matter
science fiction
Mitey Powers
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Miscellaneous
10
Zaggar's name is actually followed by a slash in a box and an X in a box, but we have no way to reproduce that here.
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Charles Hornig [as Derwin Lesser]
Ray Burley [as R. A. Burley]
Ray Burley [as R. A. Burley]
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?
Subject Matter
Buzz Allen
Buzz Allen; Will Lawrence
All cars to Seventh and Broadway!
Buzz and Will rush to the scene of a bank robbery, where criminals with ray guns make their escape in an ambulance.
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Miscellaneous
8
Hornig claims Lesser as his pen name in the book "Partners of Wonder" (1999). Due to similarities in names, Ray Burley is often confused with Ray Burnley.
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Charles Hornig
?
?
?
?
Subject Matter
Hip Knox the Super Hypnotist
Hip Knox; Eric Mac Fadden; Mike O'Leary
Hip Knox was the adopted child of Professor Knox...
Mac Fadden kidnaps Knox.
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Miscellaneous
8
There is a space between Mac and Fadden throughout the whole story.
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
John Macery (signed)
John Macery (signed)
John Macery (signed)
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?
Subject Matter
Smarty Artie
Now, anybody who makes a mess...
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Miscellaneous
3
[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
?; typeset
Subject Matter
The Junior Inventor
Key chain
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Miscellaneous
1
Inventions by readers (who get $1 for each invention). Inventions by Billy Jedlicka (Long Island), Jocelyn Gernsback (NY), Emilio Rey (Philippines), Leroy Bau (Pa), Larry Birman (NY), Ronald Tepper (NY), Wm Kadlecek (Col), Vivian Blackstone (NY), Emeterio Rodriguez (Puerto Rico), Joe Miller (CA), illegible - Ha ----wright, (England)

Not mentioned in the text, Joselyn Gernsback was the daughter of the publisher, Hugo Gernsback.
Learn While You Sleep

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Hugo Gernsback
?
?
?
typeset
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Miscellaneous
2
The Case of the Sleeping Death!!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Homer Porter
Homer Porter
Homer Porter
?
?
Subject Matter
mystery
Detective Crane
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Miscellaneous
8
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Charles Hornig
?
?
?
?
Subject Matter
Marvo 1-2 Go+
Marvo 1-2 Go+ super boy of the future!
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Miscellaneous
8
Introduction: Marvo 1-2 Go+
Cut glass with scissors!

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
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?
?
?
Subject Matter
non-fiction
Unbelievable, But True!
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Miscellaneous
2
12 odd science experiments, with request for readers to send more
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Winsor McCay
Winsor McCay (signed)
Winsor McCay
?
Winsor McCay
Subject Matter
fantasy
Little Nemo in Dreamland
Little Nemo; Impie; Flip; Princess of Slumberland; Doctor Pill
Is Nemo up yet, Angelus?
Reprinting
from Little Nemo in Slumberland Sunday (New York Herald) 1908.11.01, 1910.03.13, 1907.06.16, 1906.08.26
Miscellaneous
4
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Ruth Leslie (signed)
Ruth Leslie
Ruth Leslie
?
?
Subject Matter
childrens, humorous
Alibi Alice - She Fibs!
Alice! Whatever happened to you?
After rescuing a lion cub, Alice is taken to be tested by a lie detector.
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Miscellaneous
3
Too long

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
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?
?
Subject Matter
Coo Koo Nuts
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Miscellaneous
1
Readers sent in rebus puzzles and get a dollar. Rebuses by G.E. Jones (Pa), A. Harrison (Canada), W.T. Baldwin (Va), Don Coleman (Ohio), R.A. Coe (Ga), W. Gunn (NY), A.V. Allison (Wash.), Gladys Holland (Canada),
M.E. Rich (NJ), Sadie E. Fay (Mass.), Ben Rosen (Manitoba), Aaron Glasser (NY)
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Winsor McCay [as Silas]
Winsor McCay [as Silas]
Winsor McCay [as Silas]
?
Winsor McCay
Subject Matter
Dream of the Mince Pie Fiend
So that's the little village of New York.
Reprinting
from Dream of the Rarebit Fiend (New York Evening Telegram) 1905.01.07, ?, ?, ?
Miscellaneous
4

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