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Issue: Lightning Comics #5

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Publication Date: February 1941

Issue v1 #5
- 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: #5 of 10 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Ace Magazines

Brand: An Ace Magazine

Indicia Publisher: Ace Magazines Inc.

On Sale Date: 01/03/1941

Volume: 1

Pages: 68

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 9 (7 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s):

Notes: On sale date from the publication date as submitted to the U.S. Copyright Office found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1941, New Series, Volume 36, Number 1. Class B periodical. Copyright registration number B 485140.

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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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Content Items (9 total)

The Mummy

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

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Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Flash Lightning

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Pages: 1

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Genres: superhero

First Line: The old man of the pyramid has endowed Flash Lightning with amazing speed, power and strength...

Synopsis: Flash battles evil Prof. Vatz alias "The Mummy".

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Pages: 15

Notes: Per information from a NY Superior Court hearingin December 1941, Ace art director, Fred Gardener, stated on record that James "Jim" Mooney drew this story. Mooney actually signs his name in the first panel of page five.

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Genres: crime, superhero

First Line: Beloved by the poor and oppressed, hated by the underworld and wanted by the police...

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Pages: 12

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Genres: humorous, superhero

First Line: Hap Hazard, ambitious young copy boy of the Daily Star, mixes it with hatchet men and murderers...

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Pages: 5.75

Notes: The fourth and final tier of the last page consists of the Statement of Ownership.

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Genres: adventure, superhero

First Line: Marvo and his pet monkey, Tito, roam the country in search of adventure...

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Pages: 10

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Genres: adventure

First Line: Ace McCoy and his loyal mechanic-partner, Bill Regan, [...] have been hired to carry 100.000 dollars ransom money...

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Pages: 10

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Brother of Doom

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): Roy Carter

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: crime

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Pages: 2

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Genres: science fiction

First Line: Whiz Wilson, young scientist, with the aid of a "futuroscope" which he invented, can project himself to any place in the world at any time in the future...

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Pages: 9