Captain Flight Comics #11 The Promise Collection Pedigree (Four Star, 1947) CGC VF/NM 9.0 White pages....

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Sold: Jun 19, 2021

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Publisher: Four Star Publications, 1947

About Captain Flight Comics #11

Classic robot and rocket ship cover by L. B. Cole. Torpedoman and Blue Flame (a Human Torch clone) appearances; final series appearances of the Black Cobra and Red Rocket. Both Overstreet and the Photo-Journal Guide to Comic Books list this issue as "scarce".

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COVER DETAILS

Pencils: L. B. Cole (signed)

Inks: L. B. Cole (signed)

Colors: L. B. Cole ?

STORY DETAILS

(7 Stories)

Title: Day He Faced the Octopus

Characters: Torpedoman [Don Wallace]; Salvador; Oscar (giant rubber octopus); Tripset (villain); Mr. Fowler (villain)

Synopsis: Torpedoman is notified by Salvador that a giant creature lurks beneath the ocean, so he decides to scope it out. Sure enough, he faces the biggest octopus he has ever seen. Suddenly he is attacked and overcome by a group of divers and is taken to their boss, Mr. Fowler. Escaping, Torpedoman, suspicious of the octopus, heads back down to confront it, and discovers it is made of rubber and was being used to scare off unwanted people from discovering a gang's illegal underwater oil-drilling operation.

Pages: 10.000

Pencils: Rudy Palais (signed)

Inks: Rudy Palais (signed)

Reprints: Blue Bolt Weird Tales of Terror (Star Publications, 1951 series) #112 (February 1952), | Ghostly Weird Stories (Star Publications, 1953 series) #124 (September 1954)

Notes: Story title and sequence from Richard Starr on 22 September 2004.

Title: Monstrous ..Mutants..

Characters: Red Rocket [Rod Page]; Chuck; Hurr (Martian friend of the Red Rocket, death);

Synopsis: Rod is informed that babies are being switched for others in hospitals all over the world and wonders if it has anything to do with his friend, Chuck, and his memory being blanked out, and the planet Mars, which Chuck has just visited. He discovers the mutant minorities on the planet have deemed themselves the majority and seek to make all Martians and humans into mutants like themselves.

Pages: 8.000

Pencils: George H. Appel [as Geo. H. Appel] (signed)

Inks: George H. Appel [as Geo. H. Appel] (signed)

Reprints: Strange Mysteries (I. W. Publishing; Super Comics, 1958 series) #9 (1958), | Spook (Star Publications, 1953 series) #28 (April 1954), | Blue Bolt Weird Tales of Terror (Star Publications, 1951 series) #111 (November 1951)

Notes: Last appearance. Story title and sequence from Richard Starr on 22 September 2004. Signed at bottom of main panel on first page. Story takes place February 17, 2046.

Title: Blue Flame Meets S. Aitan

Characters: The Blue Flame (first appearance, only appearance); Flaherty; S. Aiten

Synopsis: The Blue Flame foils S. Aiten's jewelry heist.

Pages: 6.000

Pencils: Zoltan Szenics [as SZ]

Inks: Zoltan Szenics [as SZ]

Notes: Story title and sequence from Richard Starr on 22 September 2004.

Title: The Story behind the Cover

Characters: Captain Flight; Professor Burdick; Dr. Bourgo

Synopsis: Captain Flight leads a team of scientists to explore a newly discovered planet.

Pages: 2.000

Pencils: L. B. Cole (illustration)

Inks: L. B. Cole (illustration)

Letters: typeset

Title: Mummy's Mummy

Characters: The Black Cobra [Jim Hornsby]; The Cobra Kid [Bob Hornsby]; District Attorney Hornsby (Jim and Bob's father); Mr. Abernathy (museum director); two unnamed crooks (villains)

Synopsis: Cobra and the Kid prevent a museum robbery of a mummy case containing a fortune in uncut gems.

Pages: 8.000

Pencils: Leo Morey

Inks: Leo Morey

Notes: Next appearance in Black Cobra (Farrell, 1954 series) #1.

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Grade	NG	PG	CVR	0.5	1.0	1.5	1.8	2.0	2.5	3.0	3.5	4.0	4.5	5.0	5.5	6.0	6.5	7.0	7.5	8.0	8.5	9.0	9.2	9.4	9.6	9.8	9.9	10.0	Total
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