#9 August 2002
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Contents
Cat-Man
Iron Skull
Madam Fatal
Marvelo
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-All scans by me.
-Madam Fatal, and Marvelo from the
Scott Nichols collection. |
Hello and welcome to the ninth choice issue of
Spotlight Comics!!! Here you'll get a "5th week" dose of Golden Age goodness!
Enjoy!
Cover by: Chas M. Quinlan (with restoration
by me)
***Reader's Choice***
This Reader's Choice issue was voted
on last fall in Yahoo Clubs and on the DC Comics Archives Message Board.
Here's what the 10 respondents choose:
1st Story
Catman-Catman Comics 15 - 6 votes
Doc Strange-Thrilling Comics 8
- 0 votes
Doll Man-Feature Comics 89 - 4
votes
Skyman-Big Shot Comics 32 - 0 votes
2nd Story
Blue Bolt-Blue Bolt vol.2 no.11
- 1 vote
The Face-Big Shot Comics 19 - 1
vote
Iron Skull-Amazing-Man Comics 15
- 4 votes (won by coin toss)
Rocketman-Punch Comics 13 - 4 votes
3rd Story
Judy of the Jungle-Exciting Comics
60 - 2 votes
Madam Fatal-Crack Comics 22 - 7
votes
Phantom Detective-Thrilling Comics
54 - 0 votes
Tiger Man-Rangers Comics 39 - 1
vote
4th Story
Blimpy-Feature Comics 89 - 0 votes
Daffy-Smash Comics 64 - 1 vote
Hurricane Harrigan-Catman Comics
3 - 2 votes
Marvelo-Big Shot Comics 19 - 7
votes
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Cat-Man and the Kitten
-Story
taken from Cat-Man Comics #15
Holyoke Publishing Co. Inc. November 1942
-Writer- Chas
M. Quinlan
-Penciler- Chas
M. Quinlan
-Inker- Chas
M. Quinlan
-A.K.A.- David Merrywether
and Katie Conn
-Known Powers- All
the powers of the cat family.
-Other information-
His parents and sister murded by bandits in the jungles of Burma, David
was raised by a tiger and gradually aquired the skills of the cat family
including 9 lives. Returning to America, David saw the rampant crime, and
decided to fight it as a privite detective, later a soldier, and as Cat-Man!
After her uncle tried to kill Merrywether and ended up meeting his own
fate, young Katie Conn was taken in by David as his ward and became the
Kitten.
-Known Appearances-
Cat-Man Comics 1-32; Crash Comics Adventures 4-5 |
Iron Skull
-Story
taken from Amazing-Man Comics #15
Centaur Publications Inc. August 1940
-Writer- Unknown
-Penciler- Sam
Gilman
-Inker- Sam Gilman
-A.K.A.- Iron Skull
was an android with no other known name.
-Known Powers- Strength,
invulnerability.
-Known Appearances-
Amazing-Man Comics 5-6, 8-11, 14-20; Stars and Stripes Comics 2-6 |
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Madam Fatal
-Story
taken from Crack Comics #22
Comic Magazines Inc. March 1942
-Writer- Art
Pinajian
-Penciler- Art
Pinajian
-Inker- Art Pinajian
-A.K.A.- Richard Stanton
-Known Powers- None
-Other information- When
Stanton's daughter was kidnapped, he used his skills as a retired actor
to become a "simple old lady" and catch the criminals. Taken with the idea,
Stanton continued fighting crime after his daugfhter was recovered, as
Madam Fatal.
-Known Appearances-
Crack Comics 1-22 |
Marvelo
-Story
taken from Big Shot Comics #19
Columbia Comic Corperation. November 1941
-Writer- Unknown
-Penciler- Unknown
(Fred Guardineer?)
-Inker- Unknown
-Known Appearances-
Big Shot Comics 1-20; The Face 1 |
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Spotlight Comics #9. Published
by Golden Years Publications, August 2002. All original material presented
here and site design is property of The Golden Years and is not to be represented
without permission from the site owner. All represented material, comics,
covers, etc. is believed to be in the public domain and reprinted for historical
purposes. If you wish you may use stories on your own site as long as you
give me or the original scanner credit. I would appreciate it however if
you would let me know before representing a story. Biographical information
pulled from The Grand Comics Database,
AC's
Golden Age Hero and Heroine Directory,
Pure
Excitement Comics, and Jess
Nevins' Golden Age Hero Directory |
