Issue | #130 |
Published | September 1965 |
Frequency | eight times a year |
Cover Price | 0.12 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Richard E. Hughes |
Characters | Magicman |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Kurt Schaffenberger [as Pete Costanza] (signed) |
Inks | Kurt Schaffenberger [as Pete Costanza] (signed) |
Notes | According to Schaffenberger in a 1998 letter, many covers at ACG were penciled and inked by him, but signed by Pete Costanza because DC editor Mort Weisinger (for whom Schaffenberger worked on the Superman Family titles at that time) did not want him drawing superhero covers for other companies. |
Reprinted | in Magicman (Dark Horse, 2008 series) #[nn] |
Characters | Magicman [Tom Cargill]; Wizard of Science [Waldo Sissinger] (villain); Fidel Castro |
Synopsis | Magicman is captured by the Wizard of Science and forced to make a propaganda broadcast endorsing Fidel Castro. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Richard E. Hughes [as Zev Zimmer] |
Pencils | Pete Costanza |
Inks | Pete Costanza |
Reprinted | in Magicman (Dark Horse, 2008 series) #[nn] |
Script | Richard E. Hughes |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Letters submitted by John Pierce; Mark Patrican; Mark Porter; Jason Wight, Jr.; Ignacio Arroyo; L.L. Simpson |
Synopsis | Chesley Grimmick is mysteriously transported back in time to prehistoric days where he befriends the cavemen there and eventually dies. In the present, his skeleton and watch are unearthed by two paleontologists who cannot understand what they have found. |
Genre | occult |
Script | Richard E. Hughes [as Kermit Lundgren] |
Pencils | Paul Reinman |
Inks | Paul Reinman |
Notes | Lundgren pseudonym noted by Jerry Bails' Who's Who of American Comic Books. |
Reprinted | from Adventures into the Unknown (American Comics Group, 1948 series) #112 (November 1959) [original title: Out of the Past] |
Genre | superhero; humor |
Notes | house ad for Adventures into the Unknown (American Comics Group, 1948 series), featuring Nemesis, and Herbie (American Comics Group, 1964 series) |
Synopsis | Henry Matthews enlists the aid of a ghost hunter to destroy the ghost of his nephew Steven. He doesn't realize that his nephew's ghost was trying to warn him to avoid the madman who killed Steven, so he is murdered too. |
Genre | occult |
Script | Kurato Osaki |
Pencils | Hy Eisman |
Inks | Hy Eisman |