The Fly [Adventures of the Fly] #2

Dates

Cover date

September 1959

On sale

June 29, 1959

Pages

36

Editions and covers

• Original edition

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Creators

Stories

• Tim O'Casey's Wrecking Crew! · 6 pages

  A sharpie named Drews is dogged by "not a midget", but a real leprechaun who thinks Drews stoles the treasure horde of Finn MacCool from Ireland! The leprechaun sics giant robots on Drews. Tommy Troy becomes The Fly, hides Drews in a cave, smashes robots, and stuffs the leprechaun in a trash can. Drews is visited by the ghost of Finn MacCool and confesses he stole the treasure and sank it off-shore. The Fly posed as Finn. The leprechaun thanks him for this kind deeds and vanishes.

• The Sea Tiger · 1 pages
• One of Our Skyscrapers Is Missing! · 4 pages

  One morning, citizens find a big hole where a skyscraper stood. The Fly dives down and meets Toad(?) People who plan an invasion, so staged a test by stealing the skyscraper. The Fly battles a Mud Toad(?) in the arena, then a long-necked dinosaur-beast. The Toads are convinced an attack would be suicidal and return the skyscraper.

• Sneak Attack · The Shield · 2 pages

  An "enemy" fleet of bombers soars toward an "unsuspecting country". The Shield jumps atop a wing and fires lightning bolts, dodges shells, crashes jets, and wrecks the fleet. The Army thinks it "must have been a stray meteor or a freak storm." The Shield is "The Man Who Spies on Spies!"

• Marcos Eyes [sic] · 8 pages

  At a talent show, Marco loses. He gets mobsters to finance a big-eyed billboard that hypnotizes bankers and jewelers to steal goods and deliver to thugs. The Fly beats a thug and learns the sign has periscope and speaker that magnifies Marco's hypnotism. The Fly enters and is hypnotized, but cons Marco into taking a bow, breaking his glare. "The 'eyes' have it!"

• Wolf Pack! · 1 pages

  A RCMP Mountie adopted a wolf pup named "Lobo" who returned to a wolf pack. Years later the Mountie was ambushed by a criminal but saved by a huge wolf leading a pack. "I'm pretty sure it was Lobo saved my life that day."

• Bobby Bell's Judo Page · Bobby Bell · 1 pages

  Bobby Bell, Captain of the Young Shields of America, demonstrates how to defend yourself against a heavier opponent.

• The Master of Junk-Ri-La! · 6 pages

  Cruel Mister March takes Tommy's fly ring for slacking washing floors. Later a junk-plane flies over the city and rips out bank vaults with magnetism. The plane lands in the desert where Hans Yunkmann, the "Junkman", crafted the plane for thugs. Another pass over town rips loose metal, and Tommy snatches his ring from the air. Becoming The Fly, he flies to the desert, dodges thugs and a giant mechanical flyswatter. He sets the magnetism machine to trigger too high, and super-magnetism rips the compound apart. Back home, Tommy gets permission to retrieve his ring.

Reprinted in

The Adventures of the Fly (2004), Blue Ribbon Comics (1983), The Simon and Kirby Library (2010), Secrets of the Unknown (1962), Creepy Worlds (1962), Sinister Tales (1964), Laugh Comics Digest / Laugh Comics Digest Magazine / Laugh Digest Magazine (1974), Little Archie Comics Digest Annual (1977), Archie's Super Hero Special (1978), Al Williamson - Strange World Adventures (2021)