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Publisher: Ace Magazines

Title: Lightning Comics
Issue: 1
Page Count: 68
Publish Date: June 1941
Volume: 2
Contributors: Editor: Aaron A. Wyn

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Lightning Comics V2 N1 CGC 6.0
Owner: the420kid

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Story Title: [ no title ] - cover
Features:Flash Lightning
Pages:1
Pencils:Jim Mooney [as Mooney] (signed)
Inks:Jim Mooney [as Mooney] (signed)
Genre:superhero
Characters:Flash Lightning [Robert Morgan]; Amy Lane; The Mastermind; The Mummy [Professor Vatz]


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Flash Lightning
Pages:13
Pencils:Jim Mooney (signed)
Inks:Jim Mooney (signed)
Genre:superhero
Characters:Flash Lightning [Robert Morgan]; Amy Lane (scientist); The Old Man of the Pyramids; The Mastermind (villain); The Mummy [Professor Vatz] (villain, death)
Synopsis:The Mastermind constructs a weird machine in a castle owned by scientist Amy Lane, a machine that attracts lightning into the room it's in and from which the Mastermind can absorb lightning and gain powers similar to those of Flash Lightning. Then he visits the Mummy at a hospital and convinces him to provide him with the villain's radium protective coating and tell him how to use it so that he can protect himself from bullets and other weapons.


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:The Raven
Pages:10
Genre:superhero
Characters:The Raven [Detective Sgt. Danny Dartin]; Lola Lash (Danny's fiancée); Police Chief Lash (Lola's father); un-named Police Commissioner; Mr. Calhoun (villain, President of the Chasmber of Commerce); Mike (villain)


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Doctor Nemesis Rx
Pages:8
Pencils:Harry Anderson
Inks:Harry Anderson
Genre:superhero
Characters:Dr. Nemesis [Dr. Jim Bradley]; Mike Johnson (construction foreman); Jake (ambulance driver); Dr. Fowler (surgeon); Tom (small boy); Max McNulty (villain, contractor, death); Al Mirch (villain, McNulty's business partner)
Synopsis:Dr. Nemesis takes on a pair of corrupt building contractors who are using inferior materials in their building projects, causing buildings to collapse unexpectedly.


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Marvo the Magician and Tito
Pages:8
Genre:superhero
Characters:Marvo; Tito (a monkey); June Reeves (manager of a charity vaudeville show); Squire Baxter (villain); Joe (villain); Spike (villain)


Story Title: I Knew Buffalo Bill - text story
Pages:2
Letters:typeset
Genre:biography; western-frontier
Characters:Buffalo Bill Cody (death); Mr. Cody (Buffalo Bill's father, death); Kit Carson; President Abraham Lincoln; Lew Simpson; Jim "Wild Bill" Hickok (death); J. B. Studley (actor); Ned Buntline; Bill Mulligan (buffalo hunter); Billy Comstock; Texas Jack Omohundro; Frank Mordaunt (actor); Mlle. Morlacchi (actress); Harry Mainhall (actor); Jennie Fisher (actress); Lizzie Safford (actress); Eliza Hudson (actress); J. V. Arlington (actor); Major John Burke (Bill Cody's press agent); Mrs. Lew Decker (Bill Cody's sister); Chief Yellow Hand (villain, death)
Synopsis:Detailed biography of Buffalo Bill Cody.


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Congo Jack
Pages:10
Pencils:Mark Schneider (signed)
Inks:Mark Schneider (signed)
Genre:jungle; science fiction
Characters:Congo Jack; Clem Jones (Jack's friend); the Molemen [Sir Lugi; un-named others] (villains, green men from the bowels of the Earth); Queen Moletta (villain, Molemen's leader)
Synopsis:In the African Congo, weirdly garbed green invaders burst forth on the scene, killing local natives. One of the escapees alerts Jack and Clem of the danger, and both go to investigate.


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Hap Hazard
Pages:6
Pencils:Gus Schrotter
Inks:Gus Schrotter
Genre:adventure; humor
Characters:Hap Hazard (copy boy of the Daily Star); un-named Daily Star City Editor; un-named store clerk; un-named boss of the counterfeiters (villain); Bugs (villain)
Synopsis:Hap goes down to a local store to buy cigars for his editor, and, when he returns and gives his boss the cigars and change, he is told that one of the bills is counterfeit. Since the city is being flooded with such bills, Hap is told to go back to the store and get a real bill to replace it. When he does, he sees the girl clerk being kidnapped.


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Whiz Wilson
Pages:7
Pencils:Red Holmdale ?
Inks:Red Holmdale ?
Genre:science Fiction
Characters:Whiz Wilson; Professor Morrow (visiting Earthman); Ellen Morrow (his daughter); the Mongolians; the Zanians (villains)
Synopsis:Whiz sets his Futuroscope to the year of 2300 and is transported to the Planet Mongo, where the four-armed Mongolians consider him, a Professor and his daughter to be their enemies. However, when a balloon corps from an enemy planet attacks, Whiz and company help to overcome them and save Mongo.


Story Title: The Big Reward - promo (ad from the publisher)
Pages:1
Synopsis:The lure of being able to read a copy of Super-Mystery Comics encourages a boxer to win his fight.


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