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Issue: Lightning Comics #4

- Attribution History

Publication Date: December 1940

Issue v1 #4
- Sure-Fire Comics
- ✔ v1 #4
- v1 #5
- v1 #6
- v2 #1
- v2 #2
- v2 #3
- v2 #4
- v2 #5
- v2 #6
- v3 #1
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Issues: #4 of 10 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Ace Magazines

Brand: An Ace Magazine

Indicia Publisher: Ace Magazines, Inc.

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: 1

Pages: 68

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 10 (8 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Aaron A. Wyn

Notes: formerly SURE-FIRE COMICS

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: Full 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

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Title Page

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Content Items (10 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): Harry Lucey [as H L] (signed)

Inker(s): Harry Lucey [as H L] (signed)

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Subject Matter

Feature(s): Flash Lightning

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Pages: 1

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Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Harry Lucey?

Inker(s): Harry Lucey?

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Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Flash Lightning

First Line: In mystic Egypt the Old Man of the Pyramids bestowed upon Flash Lightning...

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Pages: 15

Notes: By comparison with the signed cover this appears to be Harry Lucey.

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Feature(s): Raven

First Line: Secret and silent as a shadow...

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Pages: 10

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Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Maurice Gutwirth?

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Subject Matter

Feature(s): X, the Phantom Fed

First Line: Two super-speed armored trucks...

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Pages: 10

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Subject Matter

Feature(s): Ace McCoy

First Line: Nothing like taking it easy on this farm we rented for the summer

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Pages: 8

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Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

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Subject Matter

Feature(s): Hap Hazard

First Line: Gosh!

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Pages: 4

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Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Marvo the Magician

First Line: Wandering over the highways and byways of the country...

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Pages: 8

The Golden Siesta

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): Clint Douglas

Penciller(s): ?

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Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 2

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Subject Matter

Feature(s): Whiz Wilson

First Line: This was once the big South American city, San Marino.

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Pages: 7

The Worm Turns

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): C. C. Beck Studio ?

Inker(s): C. C. Beck Studio ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: drama

Character(s): "Softy" Jones, unnamed street gang

Synopsis: "Softy" Jones buys a copy of Super-Mystery Comics and fights off a gang of street kids who try to take it from him.

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Pages: 1

Notes: The art is by multiple hands, but the face of the hero looks like an older Billy Batson. Probably inked by Beck himself.