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Issue: Science Comics #4
Publication Date: May 1940
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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.
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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:  
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reprinted 3 times as Content Items in other Issues.
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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[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
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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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)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
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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)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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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
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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)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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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)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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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)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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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)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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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)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Navy Jones revealed as the great-great-grandson of Davy Jones (locker also revealed)

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