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Issue: Super-Mystery Comics #2

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Publication Date: August 1940

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Issues: #2 of 48 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

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Publisher: Flag

Ace Magazines

Brand: Ace

Indicia Publisher: Periodical House Inc.

On Sale Date: 06/19/1940

Volume: 1

Pages: 68

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 8 (7 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Aaron A. Wyn

Notes: Per information from the NY Superior Court hearing, December 1941, Ace art director, Fred Gardener, stated that Pat Lamar's studio provided all of the artwork for this issue, as well as 20 pages of script, and lettering and new logos. Lamar's studio did not provide coloring. Lamar's bill was dated 6 June 1940. Lamar stated that his only artwork for Ace were corrections requested by the art director.

The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1940, New Series, Vol. 35, No. 3.

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Format

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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Content Items (8 total)

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Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): Harry Lucey

Inker(s): Harry Lucey

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Magno

Character(s): Magno

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Pages: 1

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Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Magno

Character(s): Magno; the Blue Spark (villain, introduction)

First Line: With his mighty powers, Magno, the magnetic man, has struck terror into the foes of law and order.

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Pages: 15

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Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): Bob Wood?

Penciller(s): Al Fagaly?

Inker(s): Al Fagaly?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Sky Smith

First Line: Because of his skill and daring, Sky Smith has been hired...

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Pages: 10

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Writer(s): ?

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Feature(s): Vulcan

First Line: 'Fire Bug' Farlin visits his boss, Mike Raddin, in prison.

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Pages: 12

Notes: Art previously credited to George Appel?, but the style is completely different to the signed Corporal Flint story in the previous issue.

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Malcolm Kildale

Inker(s): Malcolm Kildale

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Feature(s): Q-13

First Line: In no other city in the world are the insidious forces...

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Pages: 10

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Writer(s): ?

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Feature(s): Corporal Flint

First Line: Late one night, 'Breed' Duval...

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Pages: 8

The Hideout Gun

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): Cliff Howe

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

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Writer(s): Bob Wood?

Penciller(s): Al Fagaly?

Inker(s): Al Fagaly?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Mark Murdock

First Line: Mark Murdock, crime crushing D.A., has been called to state prison...

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Pages: 7