Climax Adventure Comic #4
Colour Comics Pty. Ltd.
Australia.
![Rugged Action (Atlas [Marvel], 1954 series) #2 — Devil Bat (page 3)](/image/37476/page-3-rugged-action-atlas-marvel-1954-series-2-devil-bat.jpg "Rugged Action (Atlas [Marvel], 1954 series) #2 — Devil Bat (page 3)")
- Published
- June 1965
- Page count
- 84
- Cover price
- 2/- [0-2-0 AUP]
- Colour
- Black & white
- Size
- Standard size
- Interior paper
- Newsprint
- Cover stock
- Glossy colour
- Binding
- Saddle-stitched
- Format
- Comic series
- Branding
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Colour Comics Pty Ltd
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- GCD
- www.comics.org/issue/577749
Credits
- Editing
- , editor
Issue contents
Cover
Devil Bat
Cover, 1 page
"Featuring Devil Bat"
Featuring
- Genre
- Adventure
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1"You dirty rats! What is this piracy?"
Featuring
- Genre
- Adventure
- Code
- F-271
Credits
- Art
- Jay Scott Pike, line art [signed]
- Editing
- Stan Lee , editor
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2Featuring
- Feature
- Giant-Man and the Wonderful Wasp
- Genre
- Superhero
- Code
- X-583
- Characters
- Porcupine
Credits
- Writing
- Stan Lee, scripter
- Art
- Dick Ayers, line art
- Text
- Sam Rosen, letterer
- Editing
- Stan Lee, editor
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3Featuring
- Genre
- Adventure
- Code
- F-284
Credits
- Art
- Dick Ayers, penciller [signed as Ayers]
- Ernie Bache, inker
- Editing
- Stan Lee , editor
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4Featuring
- Genre
- Adventure
- Code
- F-466
Credits
- Art
- Dick Ayers, penciller
- Ernie Bache, inker
- Editing
- Stan Lee , editor
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5Featuring
- Feature
- The Wonderful Wasp Tells a Tale
- Genre
- Superhero
Credits
- Writing
- Stan Lee, scripter
- Art
- Larry Lieber, penciller [as L. D. Lieber]
- Don Heck, inker [as D. Heck]
- Text
- Ray Holloway, letterer [as R. Holloway]
- Editing
- Stan Lee, editor
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6"Mack! What a swell guy! He and I were in Korea, same outfit!"
Featuring
- Genre
- Adventure; War
- Code
- F-285
Credits
- Art
- John Severin, line art [signed]
- Editing
- Stan Lee , editor
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7Featuring
- Feature
- The Fight for Freedom
- Genre
- War
- Code
- H-761
Credits
- Art
- Syd Shores , line art
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8Featuring
- Feature
- The Human Torch
- Genre
- Superhero
Credits
- Writing
- Stan Lee, plotter
- Robert Bernstein, scripter [as R. Berns]
- Art
- Jack Kirby, penciller
- Dick Ayers, inker
- Text
- Terry Szenics, letterer
- Editing
- Stan Lee, editor
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- First print
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Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #108 (May 1963) — "The Painter of a Thousand Perils!"
- Also printed
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Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #10 (September 1967) — "The Painter of a Thousand Perils!"
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The Fantastic Four (Newton, 1975 series) #8 (1975) — The Painter of a Thousand Perils!
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The Human Torch (Marvel, 1974 series) #8 (November 1975) — "The Painter of a Thousand Perils!"
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Essential Human Torch (Marvel, 2003 series) #1 ([October] 2003) — "The Painter of a Thousand Perils!"
Synopsis
Johnny captures a gang of truck hijackers, and a gang robbing a costume party. Meanwhile, gang leader "Scar" Tobin is visited by counterfeiter Wilhelm Van Vile, a painter notorious for his carelessness, which causes Tobin to fear he's been followed by the cops, and tells him to hit the road! But Van Vile demonstrates his new "talent"-- the ability to quickly make paintings which come magically to life, and follow his telepathic commands! These include a 3-headed gorilla, a gun that wears tons, and a flying carpet. While zooming over the city, Van Vile tells Tobin's gang how he found the paints, left behind by aliens from space, in an underground cavern while tunneling out of jail. His ambition is to create an army of crime, and he feels beating The Human Torch (who helped send him to jail) will be a good test-case. But despite sending painting-images of Reed, Sue & Ben to kill him, Johnny triumphs, destroys the alien paints and rounds up the gang.
9"I'm Brad McKay, an engineer! I was sent to the swamp country to survey the uncharted, unknown interior of the great swamp..."
Featuring
- Genre
- Adventure
- Code
- F-513
Credits
- Art
- Chuck Miller, line art [signed]
- Editing
- Stan Lee , editor
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10"Heads up, men! They're gonners… and the beast may come for us next!"
Featuring
- Genre
- Adventure
- Code
- F-467
Credits
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11"I wanted a Jaguar as a trophy, and I was going to get one!'"
Featuring
- Genre
- Adventure
- Code
- F-514
Credits
- Art
- Harry Anderson, line art
- Editing
- Stan Lee , editor
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Indicia
Printed by Kenmure Press Pty. Ltd., cnr., Derby and Wetherill Streets Nth. Lidcombe, for the Proprietors Colour Comics Pty. Ltd., Sydney and produced by The K. G. Murray Publishing Company Pty. Ltd., 142 Clarence Street, Sydney. Gordon & Gotch (A'sia) Ltd., distributors for Australia and New Zealand.