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Issue: Lightning Comics #6 Public Domain
Publication Date: April 1942
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Issues: #6 of 10 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagAce Magazines
Brand: An Ace MagazineView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Ace Magazines, Inc.
On Sale Date: 02/02/1942
Volume: 2
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 9 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Aaron A. Wyn
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1942, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 2.
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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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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Lash Lightning
Character(s): Lash Lightning [Robert Morgan]; The Raven [Danny Dartin]; Doctor Nemesis; Marvo the Magician; Cappie Young; Hap Hazard; Congo Jack; The Eel [Professor Aqua]
First Line: Just as the Eel was hurtling the girl toward the giant press, Lightning blasted his way forward to stop his fiendish plot.
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Lash Lightning Battles the Eel!!

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Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Lash Lightning
Character(s): Lash Lightning [Robert Morgan]; The Eel [Professor Aqua] (villain)
Synopsis: Billed as the "Human Fish," Professor Aqua was embittered by his life as a circus freak, so he becomes a criminal mastermind known as the Eel.
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Pages: 13
Disclose Notes: Script credit from Mark Carlson-Ghost in Alter Ego #144 (January, 2017).
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The Eel's Smuggling Operation

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Robert Turner ?; Abner Sundell ?
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Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Raven
Character(s): The Raven [Danny Dartin]; The Eel [Professor Aqua] (villain)
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Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Turner script credit suggested by the Who's Who. The Sundell credit from Mark Carlson-Ghost in Alter Ego #144 (January, 2017), based on circumstantial evidence.
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The Army Gets Fumed

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Harry Anderson [as Anderson] (signed)
Inker(s): Harry Anderson [as Anderson] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Doctor Nemesis
Character(s): Doctor Nemesis
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Pages: 10
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Museum Artifacts Go Missing

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Maurice Gutwirth ?
Penciller(s): Maurice Gutwirth (signed)
Inker(s): Maurice Gutwirth (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Marvo the Magician And Tito
Character(s): Marvo the Magician
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Pages: 8
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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Cappie Young
Character(s): Cappie Young
First Line: Cappie Young and his pal Brask Cooper are somewhere in China, the only survivors of Cappy's father's ship, which was wrecked in the China seas...
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Artist used Milt Caniff's Terry and the Pirates for artistic guidance.
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Lippy Larue and his Gang

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Hap Hazard
Character(s): Hap Hazard
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Art is identical to the "Dameron" signed story in the previous issue.
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Grubstake to Hades

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Credits
Writer(s): Clint Douglas (credited)
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Bid Patton
Character(s): Bid Patton
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Pages: 2
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The Lane Expedition

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Mark Schneider ?
Penciller(s): Mark Schneider [as Schneider] (signed)
Inker(s): Mark Schneider [as Schneider] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Congo Jack
Character(s): Congo Jack
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Pages: 7

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