Number 2225: Magno and Davey: Personal magnetism

Reading up on superheroes Magno and Davey I find that Magno is one of those characters whose powers are not explained. How did he get the power to magnetize? Carrying magnets in his pocket when he was boy? I don’t know. I also do not know who Magno is when he is not Magno, a secret identity; that information is also lacking. What I know is he went solo for a time until his youthful companion, Davey, joined him. Don Markstein’s Toonopedia makes a point of Davey using his given first name, which some tag-along boys used with their adult partners.

In this adventure of the duo, they are fighting a perennial villain, the Clown. The Clown also has no origin, and has an elastic criminal career. He is, among other things, a saboteur working for the Nazis, which is what we find him doing in today’s story.

Magno and Davey lasted from 1940 to 1947. The characters were created by Paul Chadwick (not the man responsible for Concrete, as Toonopedia would have us know), and Jim Mooney, who had a long career in comic books. No credits are given by the GCD for writing or drawing this story which appeared in Four Favorites #8 (1942):

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