The Hundred Comic #73

Published
October 1962
Page count
100
Cover price
2/- [0-2-0 AUP]
Colour
Black & white
Size
Standard size
Interior paper
Newsprint
Cover stock
Glossy colour
Binding
Saddle-stitched
Format
Comic series
Branding
Colour Comics Pty Ltd
 
Colour Comics Pty Ltd

Credits

Editing
, editor

Issue contents Hide all

Show/hide Cover The Case of the Real-Gone Flash! (The Flash) Cover, 1 page

"Poof! There goes the Flash--clear out of this world!"

Featuring

Feature
The Flash
Genre
Superhero

Credits

Art
Carmine Infantino, penciller
 
Joe Giella, inker
Colours
, colourist
Text
, letterer
Editing
Julius Schwartz, original editor

Reprint history

First print
United States
The Flash (DC, 1959 series) #128 (May 1962)
The Case of the 'Real-Gone' Flash!
Show/hide 1. The Case of the Real-Gone Flash! (The Flash) Comic story, 18 pages

Featuring

Feature
The Flash
Genre
Superhero
Characters
Abra Kadabra

Credits

Writing
John Broome, scripter
Art
Carmine Infantino, penciller
 
Joe Giella, inker
Text
, letterer
Editing
Julius Schwartz, original editor

Reprint history

First print
United States
The Flash (DC, 1959 series) #128 (May 1962)
The Case of the Real-Gone Flash!
Also printed
Australia
Giant Flash Album (Colour Comics, 1966 series) #7 ([January 1970?])
The Case of the Real-Gone Flash
 
United States
The Flash Archives (DC, 1994 series) #4 ([April] 2006)
The Case of the Real-Gone Flash!

Synopsis

Abra Kadabra, a magician in the 64th century, travels to the past and becomes a criminal.

Show/hide 2. The Hunter's Prey Comic story, 7 pages

Featuring

Genre
Adventure (action)

Credits

Writing
Richard Hughes, scripter [as Shane O'Shea]
Art
John Forte, line art
Text
, letterer
Editing
Richard Hughes, original editor [as Richard E. Hughes]

Reprint history

First print
United States
Adventures into the Unknown (ACG, 1948 series) #109 (July 1959)
The Hunter's Prey!

Synopsis

Max Prine is proud of capturing wild animals for zoos and circuses but his wife is not so sure. Returning from a hunt one day he sees his wife being abducted by aliens. He follows but is caught in an electrified trap. He wakes up in a cage and his wife tells him the aliens are collecting animals, including them, to take back to their world. They escape and are chased relentlessly by the aliens up a hill. Max turns the tables on the aliens by causing a landslide. Four aliens survive and they quickly escape in their rocket. Max releases the animals and tells Lana he is changing his job.

Show/hide 3. Tomahawk's Frontier Valet (Tomahawk) Comic story, 8 pages

Featuring

Feature
Tomahawk
Genre
Western-Frontier

Credits

Writing
David Wood , scripter [as Dave Wood]
Art
Fred Ray, line art
Text
Stan Starkman, letterer
Editing
Jack Schiff, original editor
 
Murray Boltinoff, original Associate Editor
 
George Kashdan, original Associate Editor

Reprint history

First print
United States
Tomahawk (DC, 1950 series) #81 (July-August 1962)
Tomahawk's Frontier Valet

Synopsis

When his master, Lord Boswell, disappears, Reeves attaches himself to Tomahawk and becomes his valet.

Show/hide 4. The Fortress of Space (Tommy Tomorrow) Comic story, 6 pages

Featuring

Feature
Tommy Tomorrow
Genre
Science fiction

Credits

Writing
Otto Binder, scripter
Art
Jim Mooney, line art
Text
, letterer
Editing
Whitney Ellsworth, original editor [credited]

Reprint history

First print
United States
Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #208 (September 1955)
The Fortress of Space
Show/hide 5. The Case of the Worn-Out Robot (Star Hawkins) Comic story, 9 pages

Featuring

Feature
Star Hawkins
Genre
Science fiction

Credits

Writing
John Broome, scripter
Art
Mike Sekowsky, penciller
 
Bernard Sachs, inker
Text
Gaspar Saladino, letterer
Editing
Julius Schwartz, original editor

Reprint history

First print
United States
Strange Adventures (DC, 1950 series) #140 (May 1962)
The Case of the Worn-Out Robot!

Synopsis

Robot secretary Ilda is declared obsolete and must report to the junkyard for destruction, but there she stumbles on the kidbapped Mercurian diplomat that her boss, Star Hawkins, is searching for. She alerts him, the diplomat is rescued, and she receives a ten-year reprieve.

Show/hide 6. The Reforming of Little Elk (Hopalong Cassidy Starring William Boyd) Comic story, 8 pages

Featuring

Feature
Hopalong Cassidy Starring William Boyd
Genre
Superhero

Credits

Writing
, scripter
Art
Leonard Starr, line art
 
, inker (Hopalong edits)
Text
, letterer
Editing
Whitney Ellsworth, editor

Reprint history

First print
United States
Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #179 (January 1952)
The Reforming of Little Elk

Notes

This story was originally a Pow-Wow Smith, Indian Lawman feature, with the lead character redrawn as Hopalong for this reprint.

Show/hide 7. The Crime College (John Jones, Manhunter from Mars) Comic story, 12 pages

Featuring

Feature
John Jones, Manhunter from Mars
Genre
Superhero

Credits

Writing
Jack Miller , scripter
Art
Joe Certa, line art
Text
, letterer
Editing
Jack Schiff, original editor
 
Murray Boltinoff, original Associate Editor
 
George Kashdan, original Associate Editor

Reprint history

First print
United States
Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #304 (June 1962)
The Crime College

Synopsis

Prof Proxon teaches classes in crime and supplies strange futuristic weapons to his students.

Show/hide 8. Change and Counterchange Comic story, 7 pages

Featuring

Genre
Science fiction

Credits

Writing
, scripter
Art
Howard Alexander, line art
Text
, letterer
Editing
Richard Hughes, original editor [as Richard E. Hughes]

Reprint history

First print
United States
Adventures into the Unknown (ACG, 1948 series) #63 (May-June 1955)
Change and Counterchange!

Notes

First published in Forbidden Worlds (American Comics Group, 1951 series) #28 (April 1954), under the title 'The Beginning and the End!', with several panels modified with new art for this version.

Show/hide 9. The Impossible Alibi (Big Town) Comic story, 8 pages

Featuring

Feature
Big Town
Genre
Adventure (action)

Credits

Writing
John Broome, scripter
Art
Manny Stallman, penciller
 
John Giunta, inker
Text
, letterer
Editing
Whitney Ellsworth, original editor [credited]
 
Julius Schwartz, original editor [attributed] (actual)

Reprint history

First print
United States
Big Town (DC, 1951 series) #22 (July-August 1953)
The Impossible Alibi!
Show/hide 10. Wonder Queen's Surprise Birthday Gift (Wonder Woman) Comic story, 13 pages

Featuring

Feature
Wonder Woman
Genre
Superhero

Credits

Writing
Robert Kanigher, scripter [credited as Charles Moulton]
Art
Ross Andru, penciller
 
Mike Esposito, inker
Text
Gaspar Saladino, letterer
Editing
Robert Kanigher, original editor

Reprint history

First print
United States
Wonder Woman (DC, 1942 series) #131 (July 1962)
Wonder Queen's Surprise Birthday Gift!

Synopsis

Wonder Woman forgets to bring a gift for her mother's birthday so she and Mer-Man have to sneak off and find one.

Notes

Story in two parts of 5.67 and 6.67 pages.

Show/hide 11. Untitled (Lefty Looie) Comic story, 1 page

"I've been here a long time, Lefty!"

Featuring

Feature
Lefty Looie
Genre
Humour

Credits

Writing
Henry Boltinoff, scripter
Art
Henry Boltinoff, line art
Text
Henry Boltinoff, letterer
Editing
Jack Schiff, original editor
 
Murray Boltinoff, original Associate Editor
 
George Kashdan, original Associate Editor

Reprint history

First print
United States
Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #282 (August 1960)
No title recorded

Status

AusReprints ID

  • 1002

Entry created

  • 23/12/2003

Cover added

  • 23/12/2003

Index completed

  • 22/08/2004

Last updated

  • 13/09/2019