Giantsize Adventure Comic #2
Tricho Publications Pty. Ltd.
Australia
Issue contents
Cover
Untitled
Cover, 1 page
Featuring
- Genre
- Adventure
Credits
- Art
- John Dixon, line art [attributed]
- Colours
- , colourist
- Text
- , typeset
Notes
Artist identification by Kevin Patrick.
1Featuring
- Feature
- Buster Crabbe
Credits
- Writing
- , scripter
- Art
- , line art
- Text
- , letterer
- Editing
- Harold Straubing, original Editor
Reprint history
2"But I tell you that scale predicts the future with uncanny accuracy!"
Featuring
- Feature
- Poison Ivy
- Genre
- Humour
Credits
Reprint history
- Original
- Feature Comics ? (Quality Comics, 1939 series) #?
![Giantsize Adventure Comic (Tricho, 1958? series) #2 — Untitled [Fortune Telling Scale] (page 1)](/image/131073/page-1-giantsize-adventure-comic-tricho-1958-series-2-untitled-fort.jpg "Giantsize Adventure Comic (Tricho, 1958? series) #2 — Untitled [Fortune Telling Scale] (page 1)")
3Featuring
- Feature
- Buster Crabbe
- Genre
- Science fiction; celebrity
Credits
- Writing
- , scripter
- Art
- Alex Toth, penciller
- Mike Peppe, inker
- Text
- , letterer
- Editing
- Harold Straubing, original Editor
Reprint history
4Featuring
- Feature
- Buzzy
- Genre
- Non-fiction; advocacy
Credits
- Writing
- Jack Schiff, scripter
- Art
- Ruben Moreira, line art
- Text
- , letterer
- Editing
- Whitney Ellsworth, original editor [credited]
- Jack Schiff, original Managing Editor
- Mort Weisinger, original Assistant Editor
- George Kashdan, original Assistant Editor
Reprint history
- First print
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Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #224 (January 1957) — Buzzy's "Famous Books" Quiz
- Also printed
-
Silhouette War Stories Library (Reigate, 1961? series) #1 ([May 1961?]) — Untitled
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Superman Supacomic (Colour Comics, 1959 series) #93 ([May 1967])
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Superman Supacomic (Colour Comics, 1959 series) #98 ([October 1967?])
5Featuring
- Feature
- Buster Crabbe
- Genre
- Adventure; celebrity
Credits
- Writing
- , scripter
- Art
- Mort Leav, line art
- Text
- , letterer
- Editing
- Harold Straubing, original Editor
Reprint history
6Featuring
- Feature
- The Green Skeleton
- Genre
- Superhero
Credits
- Writing
- Peter Chapman, scripter
- Art
- Peter Chapman, line art
- Text
- Peter Chapman , letterer
![Giantsize Adventure Comic (Tricho, 1958? series) #2 — Untitled [The Big Cigar Man] (page 1)](/image/113149/page-1-giantsize-adventure-comic-tricho-1958-series-2-untitled-the.jpg "Giantsize Adventure Comic (Tricho, 1958? series) #2 — Untitled [The Big Cigar Man] (page 1)")
7"Scene--The Causeway terminal yacht basin, Miami Beach, Florida."
Featuring
- Feature
- The Saint
- Genre
- Spy
- Characters
- Don Mucklow; Olga Ramos
Credits
- Writing
- Leslie Charteris, scripter
- Art
- Jack Spranger, line art [as John Spranger]
- Text
- , letterer
Reprint history
- Original
- The Saint daily (New York Herald-Tribune) 1953-10-02 - 1954-05-16
Notes
This reprint has been edited and might not include all stips from Antilla, the 20th daily story, which ran 29 September 1953 - 24 January 1954.
![Giantsize Adventure Comic (Tricho, 1958? series) #2 — Untitled [Antilla] (page 1)](/image/131076/page-1-giantsize-adventure-comic-tricho-1958-series-2-untitled-anti.jpg "Giantsize Adventure Comic (Tricho, 1958? series) #2 — Untitled [Antilla] (page 1)")
8"Hello Honey! Hello, Lydia. I hear you hired a publicity agent."
Featuring
- Feature
- Honey in Hollywood
- Genre
- Humour
Credits
- Writing
- Henry Boltinoff, scripter
- Art
- Henry Boltinoff, line art
- Text
- Henry Boltinoff, letterer
- Editing
- Whitney Ellsworth, original Editor
Reprint history
- First print
-
The Adventures of Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis (DC, 1952 series) #39 (August 1957) — Untitled
- Also printed
-
Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #292 (September 1962) — Untitled
Notes
This feature is near the end of the Saint story.
9"When raiders from space attack…"
Featuring
- Feature
- Kid Eternity
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Kid Eternity; Mr. Keeper; Padre Junipero Sierra; Louis Pasteur; Bucephalus; Steinmetz (scientist); Lt. Kona (villain, Martian leader); other un-named Martians (villains)
Credits
- Writing
- , scripter
- Art
- Pete Riss, line art
- Text
- , letterer
- Editing
- George Brenner, original Editor
Reprint history
- First print
-
Hit Comics (Quality, 1940 series) #50 (January 1948) — No title recorded
- Also printed
-
Kid Eternity Adventure Comics (Frew, 1955 series) #2 ([November 1952?]) — Untitled
Synopsis
Eternity warns the U.S. Air Force about a Martian invasion, in which the invaders were using a green "mould" that caused semi-paralysis over Junction City. The Martians ordered everyone to vacate the country as Kid Eternity was taken to the Martian leader. Meanwhile, a scientist named Steinmetz identified the Martian mould making machine and found a way to neutralize the mould.
10"They're strictly suckers, Big!"
Featuring
- Feature
- Big Brother
Credits
- Writing
- , scripter
- Art
- Pete Riss , line art
- Text
- , letterer
- Editing
- George Brenner, original Editor
Reprint history
![Giantsize Adventure Comic (Tricho, 1958? series) #2 — Untitled [Misfortune Hunter] (page 1)](/image/131078/page-1-giantsize-adventure-comic-tricho-1958-series-2-untitled-misf.jpg "Giantsize Adventure Comic (Tricho, 1958? series) #2 — Untitled [Misfortune Hunter] (page 1)")
![Giantsize Adventure Comic (Tricho, 1958? series) #2 — Untitled [Misfortune Hunter] (page 8)](/image/131091/page-8-giantsize-adventure-comic-tricho-1958-series-2-untitled-misf.jpg "Giantsize Adventure Comic (Tricho, 1958? series) #2 — Untitled [Misfortune Hunter] (page 8)")
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