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Issue Details

Issue #130
Published September 1965
Frequency eight times a year
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Richard E. Hughes

Cover Details - "Magicman Vs. The Wizard of Science!"

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]

10 page Magicman story "Magicman vs. the Wizard of Science!"

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]

2 page From Your Editor -- to You! letters page

Script Richard E. Hughes
Letters typeset
Notes Letters submitted by John Pierce; Mark Patrican; Mark Porter; Jason Wight, Jr.; Ignacio Arroyo; L.L. Simpson

6 page story "Stone Age Man"

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]

1 page Nemesis; Herbie promo (ad from the publisher) "Gangway for Gasps!"

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)

9 page story "The Ghost That Died!"

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