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CATALOG RECORD

Fantastic Comics #9

Fox · Series began 1939 · August 1940

Dates

Cover date
August 1940
On sale
June 10, 1940
Pages
68

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Chuck Cuidera, Alex Blum, Grieg Chapian, Fletcher Hanks, Bill Bossert, Fred Schwabinks: Chuck Cuidera, Alex Blum, Grieg Chapian, Fletcher Hanks, Bill Bossert, Fred Schwab, Henry Kieferscript: Fred Schwabletters: Fred Schwab

Stories

  • Untitled · 13 pages

    On an isolated south sea island pre-historic beasts still live. Professor Simm gains control of them and blackmails the USA to relinquish authority to him or face an invasion of beasts. Samson stops Simm, cages him with the beasts, and destroys the island by causing a volcano to erupt.

  • Untitled · 6 pages

    Flip uses the dimension machine to travel back to the 16th century to see if the legend of the Amazons is true. He arrives at a pivotal juncture, as the Amazons are about to be captured by European colonists. He frees them and they disappear into the deep forest, never to be seen again.

  • Untitled · 8 pages

    Sir Richard and Alice travel by ship to Egypt, on their way to the Holy Land, but are beset first by pirates, then sea monsters and sharks, before becoming shipwrecked and stranded on an island.

  • Untitled · 6 pages

    Yank infiltrates a region recently conquered by the Hondus and finds an American girl, Cecily Monson, who has been hypnotized. He snaps her out of the trance, and gets intelligence about the Hondus' next move, and the two escape. The Americans foil the Hondus' plans, destroy their fleet, and Franklin Roosevelt gives the Distinguished Service medal to Yank. Yank and Cecily begin a romance.

  • Diamond Madness · 2 pages
  • Untitled · 5 pages

    Captain Kidd sets out to find a lost explorer, Perez, who went missing on a mission to find the Lost Valley. The Captain gains the help of a native, Wongo, who leads Kidd to the valley, but pays the price, when the cyclopean monsters who inhabit the Valley get their hands on him. Kidd's efforts to save Wongo lead him to a fight with the head cyclops, who turns out to be Perez in disguise. Perez had hoped to scare others away from his find, but had become unhinged, and leaps to his death.

  • Untitled · 5 pages

    While seeking new routes from Mars to Io, Space and Diana encounter what they at first mistake for a natural phenomenon, a sandblast. When a group of sandblasts orchestrate an attack on Space's ship, Space and Diana intuit that the entities are really intelligent alien beings and an advanced invasion force.

  • Untitled · 2 pages

    When the Professor overhears the Mob planning to rub him out, he attempts to get the police to arrest him, so that he will be in the safety of jail. The Professor finds it more difficult than he imagined to get the police to take action.

  • Untitled · 8 pages

    The evil Moloka's band of space titans seeks to destroy the solar system and control the sun. Stardust moves to stop him, but due to confusion on Moloka's part, Stardust plays the role of Moloka's advisor until he brings an end to Moloka's war machines and fleet. Stardust strands Moloka on a planet made lifeless by his own aggression.

  • The God of the Cave Things · 7 pages

    While out on patrol in his submarine, Sub is caught in a whirlpool which delivers him to the undersea lair of the Cave Things. Fighting to avoid captivity, Sub stumbles upon the Temple of Boloch, God of the Cave Things. He discovers that the god is a ruse, perpetrated by a surface dweller to deprive the Cave Things of their riches. Sub rids the Cave Things of their oppresor and escapes, leaving the Cave Things in peace.

Characters

Stardust

Reprinted in

Flip Falcon in the Fourth Dimension (2026)

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