Volume: 1
Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 68
On-sale Date: 1940-01-02
Editing: John Reece ? (editor)
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[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents)

Power Nelson / cover / 1 page

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?
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?
  • Genre:science fiction; superhero
Reprints (1)

Issue Data

Indexer Notes

On sale date from the publication date found at the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, January-December 1940, Numbers 1-4. Class B periodical. Copyright number B 439740.

[The Coming of Power Nelson]
(Table of Contents: 1)

Power Nelson / comic story / 15 pages

Script:
?
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?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:science fiction; superhero
Characters:
Power Nelson (first appearance; origin); Emperor Seng I (first appearance; villain)

[Birth of a Barnstormer]
(Table of Contents: 2)

Ted O'Neil / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
? [as King]
Pencils:
Tarpé Mills ? (signed as Nella)
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:adventure
Characters:
Ted O'Neil (first appearance; origin); Midge Martin (first appearance); Nate Ogden (first appearance; villain)

Flaming Death!
(Table of Contents: 3)

text story / 2 pages

Script:
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?
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?
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset
  • Genre:adventure

[Jupiter's Mission to Earth]
(Table of Contents: 4)

Jupiter, Master Magician / comic story / 8 pages

Script:
?
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?
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?
  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
Jupiter (first appearance; an alien magician); Jim Johnson (first appearance); Gyp Mercer (first appearance; villain)

[The Rescue of Lt. Andre]
(Table of Contents: 5)

Jaxon of the Jungle / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Tarpé Mills (Edgar Allen, Jr.)
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?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:jungle
Characters:
Mike Jaxon (first appearance)

[The Master Plan of Zola]
(Table of Contents: 6)

Secret Agent M-11 / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
?
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?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:spy
Characters:
Secret Agent M-11 (first appearance); Zola (first appearance; villain)

[The Corpse in the Snowman]
(Table of Contents: 7)

K the Unknown / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Robert Turner (credited as Thomas Brown)
Pencils:
? (credited as Thomas Brown)
Inks:
? (credited as Thomas Brown)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:superhero
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Private snoop, eh?
Characters:
K the Unknown [Doug Danville] (first appearance; only appearance as K the Unknown); Terry Dane (first appearance); Sigmund Rathko (first appearance; villain)
Synopsis:
College friends Douglas Danville and Terry Dane meet up at an alumni ski event. Dane is now a private detective, and Danville is secretly the vigilante K the Unknown. They discover a body hidden inside a snowman. Terry sets out to solve the case, and Douglas changes to K to protect her.
Reprints (3)

Indexer Notes

In the next issue, Doug Danville has changed his crimefighting name to the Black Owl.

In The Liberty Brigade (Thrilling Nostalgia, 2020 Series) #1, a mysterious young African-American woman takes over the K the Unknown identity.

[My Brother, the Counterfeiter]
(Table of Contents: 8)

Buck Brady of the FBI / comic story / 6 pages

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?
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?
  • Genre:detective-mystery
Characters:
Buck Brady (first appearance); Carter Brady (first appearance; villain; Buck's brother)

[The Ghost-Ship Isle]
(Table of Contents: 9)

Storm Curtis / comic story / 7 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
?
Inks:
?
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:adventure
Characters:
Storm Curtis (first appearance)
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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. [no title indexed]
    Power Nelson
  2. [The Coming of Power Nelson]
    Power Nelson
  3. [Birth of a Barnstormer]
    Ted O'Neil
  4. Flaming Death!
  5. [Jupiter's Mission to Earth]
    Jupiter, Master Magician
  6. [The Rescue of Lt. Andre]
    Jaxon of the Jungle
  7. [The Master Plan of Zola]
    Secret Agent M-11
  8. [The Corpse in the Snowman]
    K the Unknown
  9. [My Brother, the Counterfeiter]
    Buck Brady of the FBI
  10. [The Ghost-Ship Isle]
    Storm Curtis
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