Penciller revision from Cazeneuve to Rice per reprint. Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Dart (introduction, origin) Ace Barlow (introduction, adoptee of Caius) General Sulla (leader of the Roman Army, flashback) Marius (villain, flashback) Lucius (villain, flashback) Ricarno (villain) Ricarno's gang (villains) ![]() He adopts the boy and trains him to be his sidekick and together they battle against the Ricarno Gang, responsible for killing Ace's parents. Upon exiting into the modern world, he sees a vicious gang attempting to kill a young boy, Ace Barlow, and saves him. House ad for the Blue Beetle.Ĭaius, known in ancient Rome as the terror of Roman racketeers, by magical incantations, is put into a deep sleep for 2200 years, awakening in a museum. Pencils: Bert Whitman | Inks: Bert Whitman So something about the idea of shrinking people must have been floating about pop culture of the time.Īugust 1940 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthlyĪrt taken from the Dr. Barmell was shrinking people to doll size in Amazing Man Comics #5 cover dated September 1939. ![]() ![]() ![]() Was two months enough time to produce the comic in those days?ĭr. CYCLOPS was Apthe on-sale date for this issue of WEIRD COMICS was June 15, 1940. Mortal shrinks humans just like in the Paramount movie DR.
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