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America's Greatest Comics 1

AMERICA'S GREATEST COMICS #1

Cover Date: 1941
Cover Price: $.15
Publication Date: 1941-10-15

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Cover Credits:
Art: Mac Raboy


Story: "Ghost of the Deep" (20 Pages)

Credits:

ArtC.C. Beck
EditingFrance Herron

Feature Character(s):

Captain Marvel

Supporting Character(s):

Sterling Morris

Villain(s):

Hugo (first appearance; a scientist; dies)
Ghost of the Deep (Spriggins; first appearance; head announcer at Monopoly Broadcasting Company; dies)
Foreign agents (first appearance for all; working for the Ghost)

Location(s):

Fawcett City
Panama Canal Zone

Comment(s):

This story takes place on Earth-S.

Story Reprinted in:

The Shazam! Archives #3 (2003)


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Second Story: "The Riddle of the Ages" (18 Pages)

Credits:

ArtMac Raboy
EditingFrance Herron

Feature Character(s):

Bulletman

Supporting Character(s):

Bulletgirl
Sergeant Kent

Villain(s):

Invisible Killer and his gang (first appearance; an invisible thief)


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Third Story: "Minute Man Meets Mr. Skeleton" (18 Pages)

Credits:

ArtPhil Bard
EditingFrance Herron

Feature Character(s):

Minute-Man

Supporting Character(s):

General Milton

Villain(s):

Mister Skeleton (first appearance; a near-skeletal giant; kills several military leaders; destroyed)

Other Character(s):

President Franklin Roosevelt


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Fourth Story: [No Title] (18 Pages)

Credits:

ArtCharles Sultan
EditingFrance Herron

Feature Character(s):

Spy Smasher

Supporting Character(s):

Admiral Corby
Eve Corby

Villain(s):

America Smasher (first appearance; Germany's master saboteur and spy; see Comments)

Location(s):

Washington, DC

Comment(s):

Even though this is America Smasher's first appearance; Spy Smasher reacts to him as they have met before.


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Fifth Story: "The Death Battalion" (15 Pages)

Credits:

ArtDon Rico
EditingFrance Herron

Feature Character(s):

Mister Scarlet

Supporting Character(s):

Pinky the Whiz Kid
Miss Wade

Villain(s):

Death Battalion: (all go to work for the Nazis)
Brain (Loomis; first appearance; former Warden of Alcatraz)
Horned Hood
Ghost
Black Clown
Laughing Skull
Doctor Death (kills a Senator)

Location(s):

California
Alcatraz Penitentiary


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