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Science Comics #8

Sep 1940 · Fox · 0.10 USD
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This anthology issue contains multiple science fiction stories featuring The Eagle battling convicts aboard a spacecraft, a train wreck thriller where heroes attempt to stop saboteurs using crossed railway tracks and wrong signal switches, and "Marga the Panther Woman" by James J. Royal, in which an white girl inoculated with black panther traits joins aviator Ted Grant on an expedition to search for a radium deposit in a lost jungle plateau. A story titled "Perisphere Payne" depicts action involving rats, a tracer-ray weapon, and conflict between crew members aboard a ship, with Payne ultimately taking command after exposing a traitor named So-Ling.

Contains 7 stories
The Water Thieves
10 pp
Bulvo (VillainIntroDeath)
The Wrecker
8 pp
The Wrecker (VillainIntroDeath)

When an organized gang of ruthless saboteurs led by The Wrecker begins terrorizing the railroad with deadly train wrecks and extortion threats, electrical expert Jim Andrews—secretly the super-powered vigilante Dynamo—steps in to stop them. Racing against the clock to rescue a kidnapped girl and prevent a catastrophic collision that could claim dozens of lives, Dynamo must use every ounce of his electrical abilities to outmaneuver The Wrecker's desperate endgame.

Voyage to the Orange World
8 pp
The Globes of Brigo
6 pp
Brigo (VillainIntro)Dr. Snead (VillainIntro)
The Lost Plateau
8 pp
Professor Read (Intro)Mrs. Read (Intro)Bobby Read (Intro)Chalto (VillainIntroDeath)

Marga, a woman with panther-like abilities, joins aviator Ted Grant and Professor Read's expedition to find a radium deposit on the Lost Plateau, but when the plane crashes and the professor's young son Bobby is kidnapped by Chalto, a renegade white chief, Marga's tracking skills and fearlessness become essential to the desperate rescue. Her cunning and strength are tested at every turn as she and the others pursue the kidnappers through treacherous terrain filled with quicksand, jackals, and deadly chasms. This tale is from Science Comics #8 (1940).

Ling's Plot to Kill Payne
8 pp
Ling (VillainIntro)
The Log of Harald the Red
8 pp
Leif Erickson (Guest Star)King Harald the Red (Guest Starin flashback)Captain Nemo (Guest Star)

When Captain Nemo discovers an ancient log belonging to Harald the Red at the bottom of the sea, he uncovers a reference to a prehistoric monster—an ichthyosaur that may still be alive in Frobisher Bay. Assembling a fleet led by Navy Jones and joined by the fearless Princess Coral, Captain Nemo sets out to hunt the creature, but the expedition faces deadly obstacles from giant narwhals and the monster itself before the final confrontation. A rousing undersea adventure that blends historical mystery with creature-feature thrills.

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Raw (Good) $452
CGC 9.2 · 1 in census $10,993*
CGC 9.0 none in existence
CGC 8.5 none in existence
CGC 8.0 · 1 in census $3,857
CGC 7.5 none in existence
CGC 7.0 none in existence
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CGC 6.5 · 2 in census $2,338
CGC 6.0 · 2 in census $2,022*
CGC 5.5 · 2 in census $1,572
CGC 5.0 none in existence
CGC 4.5 none in existence
CGC 4.0 · 1 in census $1,198*
CGC 3.5 · 1 in census $1,068*
CGC 3.0 · 1 in census $876
CGC 2.5 none in existence
CGC 2.0 · 2 in census $607
CGC 1.5 none in existence
CGC 1.0 none in existence
CGC 0.5 · 1 in census $329*
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