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Series: Exciting Comics

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Publisher: Pines

Title: Exciting Comics
Issue: 2 (2)
Page Count: 68
Publish Date: May 1940
Volume: 1
Contributors: Editor: Ned Pines [as N.L. Pines] (president)

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Inside This Issue:

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Story Title: [ no title ] - cover
Features:Ted Crane
Pages:1
Pencils:L. North
Inks:L. North
Characters:Ted Crane


Story Title: Ted Crane and the Leopard Men - comic story
Features:Ted Crane
Pages:10
Pencils:George Mandel [as Geo Mandel] (signed)
Inks:George Mandel [as Geo Mandel] (signed)
Characters:Ted Crane (first appearance); Prof. Hawkins (first appearance); Betty Hawkins (first appearance); The Leopard Men (first appearance, villains); Bullard (first appearance, villain)


Story Title: Marooned on Mercury - comic story
Features:The Space Rovers
Pages:10
Pencils:Max Plaisted
Inks:Max Plaisted
Characters:Ted Hunt (first appearance); Jane Martin (first appearance); Dr. Matthew Martin (first appearance); Mercurian cave-people (first appearance); Flaedo (first appearance, villain, death); Zado (first appearance, villain); King of Thian (first appearance, villain); Otto (first appearance, villain); another spy (first appearance, villain)


Story Title: The Second Theseus - comic story
Features:Son of the Gods
Pages:8
Pencils:George Mandel
Inks:George Mandel
Colors:George Mandel
Characters:Dr. John Thesson [the modern Theseus] (first appearance, origin); Theseus (first appearance); Ariadne (first appearance); Aegeus (first appearance); Minos (first appearance, flashback); Prof. Craig (first appearance); Perphetes (first appearance, villain, death, flashback); Sinis (first appearance, villain, death, flashback); Minotaur (first appearance, villain, death, flashback); Procostous [Procrustes] (first appearance, villain); Cercion (first appearance, villain, death)


Story Title: The Knowles Case - comic story
Features:Dan Williams, Private Investigator
Pages:7
Pencils:Ray Lowry
Inks:Ray Lowry
Genre:detective-mystery
Characters:Dan Williams; Patricia Knowles (first appearance); Edward Knowles (first appearance, villain, death)


Story Title: On the Western Front - comic story
Features:Sergeant Bill King
Pages:5
Pencils:Leonard Sansone
Inks:Leonard Sansone
Characters:Sergeant Bill King; Nazis (villains)


Story Title: The Grey Rider - text story
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


Story Title: Mystery of the Lost Mine - comic story
Features:The Masked Rider
Pages:8
Characters:The Masked Rider (first appearance; only appearance); The Specter [Jim Sanford] (first appearance; villain)


Story Title: Theft of the Tank Plans - comic story
Features:The Sphinx
Pages:8
Pencils:Kin Platt ?
Inks:Kin Platt ?
Characters:The Sphinx [Ellsworth Forrester] (first appearance); Marjorie Grover (first appearance); Thomsen (first appearance; villain); Saunders (first appearance; villain); other spies (first appearance; villains)


Story Title: Masked Bandit - text story
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


Story Title: The Mask Returns - comic story
Features:The Mask
Pages:6
Pencils:Raymond Thayer [as Thayer] (signed)
Inks:Raymond Thayer [as Thayer] (signed)
Characters:The Mask [Tony Colby]; Olly Snate (villain; death); Otto Fox (first appearance; villain; death)


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