Super Magician Comics No. 11: Museum Object and Cultural History
Super Magician Comics No. 11: date made: 1943. maker: Dell Publishing Company, Inc.. Object Name: comic book.
The object in the museum catalogue
Super Magician Comics Vol. 1 No. 11 was published by Street and Smith in March of 1943. Jack Binder illustrated the cover of the issue featuring the story "Blackstone's Magic Conquers the Fire Wizards". Binder's cover depicts the magician Blackstone emerging from flames next to his assistant Rhoda while disarming the Fire Wizards of their swords. The issue also featured Simon Savant in “The Evil Dr. Svengall,” Desperate Ambrose Deteckativ, Supersnipe in “The Power of Magic,” and the Blackstone Jr. Magicians in “Marionettes.”
Super Magician Comics was originally published in May of 1941 under the title Super Magic Comics before changing its name for the rest of its five-year run. Super Magician Comics ran in five volumes, with most of the issues featuring fictionalized adventures of the real-life magician, the Great Blackstone (Harry Blackstone, Sr.). Walter B. Gibson (pen name Maxwell Grant) was a friend of Blackstone’s and wrote the comics to be given away at his shows. The issues sold out at newsstands as well, helping Blackstone sell more tickets and increasing the popularity of the comic. Blackstone also starred in a radio drama written by Gibson, as well as the ensuing comic books Master Magician Comics and Blackstone, the Magician Detective.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1943
- maker: Dell Publishing Company, Inc.
- Object Name: comic book
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 7 1/2 in x 10 1/4 in; 19.05 cm x 26.035 cm
- Subject: Magic shows
- Subject: Comics
- ID Number: 2013.0086.096
- catalog number: 2013.0086.096
- accession number: 2013.0086
- Credit Line: Gift of Olivia V. Crisson and Phillip M.S. Crisson in honor of Peter Bozzer
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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