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Issue Details

Issue #50
Published April 1947
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 52
Editing Roy Ald

Cover Details

Characters Captain Midnight
Genre aviation; adventure
Pencils Leonard Frank
Inks Leonard Frank

1 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Contents Page"

Letters typeset

8 page Captain Midnight story "Captain Midnight Spikes the Sun Gun"

Characters Captain Midnight [Captain Jim Albright]; Dr. Pyrrho (villain, I).
Synopsis A new villain threatens to use the flaming fury of the Sun itself against the Earth and Captain Midnight.
Genre aviation; adventure
Pencils Leonard Frank
Inks Leonard Frank
Notes In the AC Comics' reprint, the strip is titled "Major Midnight"; the last 1/3 of page 9 is titled "Captain Midnight's Air Lingo" defines several air terms; synopsis added by Craig Delich 10-20-08.
Reprinted in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #67 (2007)

7 page Captain Midnight story "The Moon Creatures"

Characters Captain Midnight [Captain Jim Albright]; Icky Mudd; Professor Edan.
Synopsis Captain Midnight and his companions are threatened by living rocks with a silica base on the Moon.
Genre aviation; adventure
Pencils Leonard Frank
Inks Leonard Frank
Notes In the AC reprint, the strip is titled "Major Midnight". Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 7-17-09.
Reprinted In Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1995 series) #79 (2009).

2 page Joe Miller filler "The Tempest"

Characters Joe Miller
Genre humor

7 page Sergeant Twilight story "Sgt. Twilight Hits a New Low (Note)"

Characters Sgt. Twilight
Genre adventure

2 page Red Skye text story "Across the Border"

Genre adventure
Script Richard Kraus (signed)
Letters typeset

3 page Johnny Blair, in the Air story

Characters Johnny Blair
Genre adventure

9 page Captain Midnight story "Life of the Shark!"

Characters Captain Midnight [Captain Albright]; Ichabod Mudd; Paul Petrov; Mr. Gentry; Ivan Shark (villain); Gardo (villain).
Synopsis When Captain Midnight is asked to make a movie on the life of the notorious Ivan Shark, he discovers that Shark is still alive and must use his mechanical bloodhound to track him down.
Genre aviation; adventure
Pencils Leonard Frank
Inks Leonard Frank
Notes Story title from Dick Sabo on 16 November 2004; previously indexed as "Wife of the Shark." In the AC reprint, the strip is called Major Midnight and the last 1/3 of the page of the story was an ad. Much info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 1-18-09.
Reprinted In Men of Mystery (AC, 1995 series) #75 (2008).