Heroic Comics #15 Mile High pedigree (Eastern Color, 1942) CGC NM- 9.2 White pages. This beautiful book looks even better th...

Record Price at Heritage Auctions: $1,035.00

Sold: Oct 12, 2002

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Publisher: Eastern Color, 1942

About Heroic Comics #15

First appearance of Downbeat. Liberty Bell painted cover.

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COVER DETAILS

Characters: The Music Master [John Wallace]

STORY DETAILS

(9 Stories)

Characters: Hydroman [Bob Blake]; Rainbow Boy [Jack Watson]; lighthouse keeper; Coast Guard captain; diamond smugglers [Lefty; rest unnamed] (villains)

Synopsis: Rainbow Boy joins a dazed Hydroman, after he had struggled with the now imprisoned Helium Gang, and informs him that he has received a strange wireless from the Rock Island Lighthouse. Hydroman investigates, making his way into the lighthouse and finding the keeper, who alerts Hydroman that a gang of smugglers are attempting to bring in diamonds from South America. While the keeper alerts the authorities, Hydroman rounds up the crooks and turns them over to the Coast Guard.

Pages: 9.000

Script: Ben Thompson ?; Stephen Douglas ?

Pencils: Ben Thompson (signed)

Inks: Ben Thompson (signed)

Notes: Script credit revised from Ben Thompson ? to Douglas ? by Craig Delich. The Who's Who indicates that Thompson drew the feature only and no extant evidence exists that Thompson also wrote this feature. The Who's Who does not indicate who wrote the Hydroman strip, but does indicate Douglas as the writer and creator of Rainbow Boy.

Characters: Rainbow Boy [Jack Watson]; Whitey Wynkoop; Mrs. Wynkoop (Whitey's mother); Joe (train engineer); Nick Gilioni (villain, racketeer); Gilioni's mob (villains)

Synopsis: After a mysterious ailment strikes several Sutton Hall football players during a game, Jack investigates and discovers that the team's drinking water had been drugged. When Whitey disappears, Jack, as Rainbow Boy, confronts racketeer Gilioni, who had bet a large sum of money against Sutton Hall.

Pages: 9.000

Script: Ben Thompson ?; Stephen Douglas ?

Pencils: Ben Thompson (signed)

Inks: Ben Thompson (signed)

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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
Universal	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Qualified	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Signature Series	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
CGCxJSA	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Restored	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
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