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Magno the Magnetic Man was the underappreciated star of Ace Periodicals’ long-running Super-Mystery Comics title, debuting in concern #1 in 1940
If you are conversant in the Marvel character Magneto, Magno the Magnetic Man is precisely what you anticipate. As defined in his debut in Super-Mystery Comics #1: “Seldom has the world seen anything so strange as the powers possessed by Magno — the Magnetic Man. Mysterious and mighty, Magno is able to draw to himself anything of metal. In addition, he can hurl himself through space, attracted by anything metallic. With such powers, Magno could rule the world. Instead, he chooses to devote his life to fighting evil of all kinds.”
The complete Ace superhero line is extremely underrated, and Magno in Super-Mystery Comics was amongst the better of the bunch, and a whole lot of the run is hard to get. An necessary superhero debut from the early WWII period, there are a number of problems with of the collection together with an reasonably priced copy of Super-Mystery Comics #1 (Ace, 1940) Condition: GD+ up for public sale in the 2023 July 13 – 14 Pre-Code Horror & Crime Comics Showcase Auction #40227 at Heritage Auctions.
According to a lawsuit over the creation of Ace Periodicals comedian books throughout this period, Magno the Magnetic Man and the remainder of the materials in Super-Mystery Comics #1 was the creation of a comic book manufacturing studio run by Patrick Lamar. At least two tales in this concern have been based mostly on plots from previous Ace Periodicals pulps (Magno’s debut story was based mostly on the Secret Agent X storyline “Octopus of Crime by author Paul Chadwick), however the Magno character is authentic to the comics.
One of the best-known characters from the Ace Periodicals line, Magno loved an extended profession in Super-Mystery Comics and Four Favorites, and finally received a sidekick, and had an fascinating rogues gallery of supervillains, together with his archnemesis the Clown. But it began in Super-Mystery Comics #1 (Ace, 1940) Condition: GD+ up for public sale in the 2023 July 13 – 14 Pre-Code Horror & Crime Comics Showcase Auction #40227 at Heritage Auctions.
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