Issue | #5 |
Published | [May 2003] |
Cover Price | 6.95 USD |
Pages | 52 |
Editing | Sol Cohen (original cover editor); Bill Black (reprint editor); Mark Heike (associate reprint editor) |
Characters | Space Detective; Teena |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Wally Wood [as Wallace Wood] |
Inks | Wally Wood [as Wallace Wood] |
Letters | typeset |
Reprinted | from Space Detective (Avon, 1951 series) #2 |
Characters | Beverly; her husband Carl |
Synopsis | Down through the ages, the leather-clad book lay dormant and unmoving... never hinting of the terror that lives in its yellowing pages! When prying hands unclasped the covers, catastrophe struck with a force never before imagined! Slowly the book of evil comes open!... Do not turn away -- look, my friend... look deeply into the map of doom. [per intro] |
Genre | horror |
Pencils | Joe Kubert (signed) |
Inks | Joe Kubert (signed) |
Reprinted | from Weird Horrors (St. John, 1952 series) #9 (October 1953). |
Characters | Captain Science; Doctor Khartoum; Klameth; Luana; Rip |
Synopsis | From the long forgotten temple of Klameth, hidden deep in the age-old fortress city of Btuh, rose a force that threatened to crush our modern civilization. Journeying backward in time, Captain Science, master of star-born knowledge and Rip, his young assistant, find a new way to conquer a power more dangerous than the atom bomb, and defeat the evil genius who would set it free, "The Insidious Doctor Khartoum"... [per intro] |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Joe Orlando (signed); Wally Wood (signed) |
Inks | Joe Orlando (signed); Wally Wood (signed) |
Letters | typeset |
Editing | Adolphe Barreaux (original editor) |
Reprinted | from Captain Science (Youthful, 1950 series) #4 (June 1951). |
Characters | Dr. John Range; Jane Martin; Jason Kirby; Mike; Olan Zenba |
Synopsis | Jason Kirby, famous Hollywood star who last year announced his retirement from the silver screen, has secretly purchased the movie rights to the best-selling novel "Consider the Beast". Take it from me, folks, the profile is trying for a comeback - and my bet is that he'll make it! [per intro] |
Genre | detective |
Script | ? [as F.E. Lincoln] |
Pencils | George Evans (signed) |
Inks | George Evans (signed) |
Reprinted | from Wings Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #108 |
Characters | Captain Crewes; General Larson (fb) |
Synopsis | Loneliness for Earth, fear and restlessness have plagued all space ship commanders ever since earthlings first embarked upon extensive space patrols! And sometimes the pressure erupts into the gravest problem of any commander... mutiny! [per intro] |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Steve Ditko (signed) |
Inks | Steve Ditko (signed) |
Reprinted | from Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds (Charlton, 1956 series) #8 (June 1958). |
Characters | Desert Eagle; Jack Burne; Miss Gray; her mother Mrs. Gray |
Synopsis | A lonely saddletramp roams the southwest, finding misfortune one day and fortune the next. Known to friend and foe as Desert Eagle, he follows the torturous trails where treachery lurks in many guises... and the whims of fate spur men to deeds of violence! [per intro] |
Genre | western |
Pencils | John Buscema |
Inks | John Buscema |
Reprinted | from The Hawk 3-D (St. John, 1953 series) #1 (November 1953). |
Characters | Torchy Todd |
Synopsis | Torchy is kidnapped by aliens from Saturn who turn out to be actors looking for publicity. |
Genre | humor |
Script | Bill Ward |
Pencils | Bill Ward |
Inks | Bill Ward |
Editing | George Brenner (original editor) |
Reprinted | from Modern Comics (Quality, 1945 series) #77 (September 1948). |
Characters | Willy Brommer; his wife Stella; his uncle Seth Brommer (in a portrait) |
Synopsis | I've had too many accidents in this cursed place! And they weren't planned by living men! I tell you, it's -- the house that tried to kill me! [per intro] |
Genre | horror |
Pencils | Mort Meskin |
Inks | Mort Meskin |
Editing | Joe Simon; Jack Kirby (original editors) |
Reprinted | from Black Magic (Prize, 1950 series) #v2 #2 [8] (December 1951-January 1952). |