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America's Greatest Comics 5

AMERICA'S GREATEST COMICS #5

Cover Date: December 1942
Cover Price: $.15

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Cover Credits:
Pencils: C.C. Beck
Inks: Pete Costanza


Story: "The Lost Lightning" (20 Pages)

Credits:

StoryDave Berg
ArtDave Berg
EditingRon Reed

Feature Character(s):

Captain Marvel

Villain(s):

Riggshaw and his gang (first appearance for all; gangsters)
Adolf Hitler and Nazi saboteurs
Premiere Tojo and Japanese Navy
Ibac

Other Character(s):

Zeus
Mercury
Venus
Bacchus
Neptune
Cupid
Pan

Location(s):

Olympus
New York City, NY
Brooklyn Botanical Gardens


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Second Story: "Battles The Bomber Birds!" (12 Pages)

Credits:

ArtMax Raboy
EditingRod Reed

Feature Character(s):

Spy Smasher

Supporting Character(s):

Eve Corby
Admiral Corby (stabbed)

Villain(s):

Condor Master (Squat-So; first appearance; a dwarf Japanese assassin who uses trained condors for transport; dies?)

Location(s):

Alaska Territory


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Third Story: "The Plotter!" (18 Pages)

Credits:

EditingRod Reed

Feature Character(s):

Bulletman

Supporting Character(s):

Bulletgirl
Sergeant Kent

Villain(s):

Plotter (first appearance; a writer driven insane by rejection notices turns to crime; dies)


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Fourth Story: "The Goddess of Fire!" (12 Pages)

Credits:

ArtPhil Bard
EditingRod Reed

Feature Character(s):

Minute-Man

Supporting Character(s):

Sgt. Slattery

Villain(s):

Pelee (first appearance; a Japanese spy posing as the Hawaiian Fire Goddess)
Japanese Army (first appearance for all)

Location(s):

Hawai'i Territory


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Fifth Story: "The Phantom of Marston Manor" (12 Pages)

Credits:

EditingRod Reed

Feature Character(s):

Mister Scarlet

Supporting Character(s):

Pinky the Whiz Kid
Miss Wade

Villain(s):

Phantom of Marston Manor (Formes; first appearance; Marston's butler who is trying to kill the inheritor of the manor; dies)


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