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Issue: Green Giant Comics #1

- Attribution History

Publication Date: January 1940

Issue #1

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Issues: #1 of 1 Issue

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Variant: unnamed

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Publisher: Flag

Pelican Publications (Funnies, Inc.)

Brand: [pelican emblem]

Indicia Publisher: Pelican Publications

On Sale Date: 1940

Volume: none

Pages: 52

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency: none

Content Items: 12 (8 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): ?

Notes: Complete indicia (from DCM scan):
Published by Pelican Publications, 49 West 45th St., New York, New York.
Copyright 1940, Funnies Inc., New York, New York.

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Publication Type: Comic Book

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Reprinted In1

1 Content Item
- [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]0

reprinted as/ in another Issue.

Reprinted From2

2 Content Items
- [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]1
- [untitled] [Activity on Interior Page(s)]1

reprinted 2 times from Content Items in other Issues.

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Cover, Front

Original Artwork

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Adult Image

Title Page

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Cover, Front

Original Artwork

Digital Edition

Adult Image

Title Page

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Content Items (12 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Green Giant

Character(s): Green Giant [Mr. Brentwood]

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): George Kapitan (signed)

Penciller(s): Harry Sahle (signed)

Inker(s): Harry Sahle (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Green Giant

Character(s): Green Giant [Mr. Brentwood] (brokerage firm owner on Wall Street, introduction); John Preston (Brentwood's partner); Samuel "Smiley" Gleason (villain); Gleason's mob ["Killer"; Lefty; Joe] (villains)

First Line: Like a mythical figure of past appears...

Synopsis: Preston informs Brentwood of another block of counterfeit stock, so he dons the garb of Green Giant, and investigates, discovering several of the perpetrators. Through them, he tracks down the head of the counterfeiting mob and brings them to justice.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

Notes: Only appearance.

End blurb indicates another issue, which never appeared.

Gags and Gab

Text Article on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Ray Gill

Penciller(s): Ray Gill [as RAG] (signed)

Inker(s): Ray Gill [as RAG] (signed)

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Jokes and three one-panel gag cartoons, two with text captions, one signed "RAG".

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Henry Kiefer (signed)

Inker(s): Henry Kiefer (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Dr. Nerod

Character(s): Dr. Nerod (first appearance; only appearance)

First Line: While soldiers march across battlefields...

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): John E. Pierrotti (signed)

Inker(s): John E. Pierrotti (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Mundoo

Character(s): Bob Haven; Mundoo; Dr. Ruskin; Helen Rogers; "Big Jim" Hawkins (villain, dies)

First Line: Bob Haven, government surveyor...

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Notes: Story is printed in black, white, and red only.

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Martin Filchock (signed)

Penciller(s): Martin Filchock (signed)

Inker(s): Martin Filchock (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Kar Toon

First Line: Not a bad looking cat....

Reprinting

From Content Item: Flag

Motion Picture Funnies Weekly #1 published January 1939
was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Notes: Story is printed in black, white, and red only.

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Victor E. Pazmino

Inker(s): Victor E. Pazmino

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Master Mystic

Character(s): The Master Mystic (introduction); Rango (villain, scientist from Slavonia, death)

First Line: Into a world beset by war, crime, and disease...

Synopsis: Master Mystic must battle a demented scientist who has invented a new drug which transforms him into a giant so that he can exact revenge and lay waste to those countries which thwarted his dream of world domination.

Reprinting

In Issue:

Men of Mystery Comics #89 published May 2013

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Notes: Only appearance.

Story printed in black, white, and red only.

Magnetic Missiles of Doom

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Black Arrow

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Grant Evers

Inker(s): Grant Evers

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Lucky Lane

First Line: Introducing Lucky Lane, the luckiest trouble wrangler...

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 4

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Frank Thomas (signed)

Inker(s): Frank Thomas (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Researcher

First Line: In the bachelor quarters of Dr. Revel...

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Stamps

Text Article on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Ray Gill

Penciller(s): Ray Gill ?

Inker(s): Ray Gill ?

Subject Matter

Genres: non-fiction

Feature(s): Nobby Hobbies

Synopsis: Article on stamp collecting, with two incidental spot illustrations.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

[untitled]

Activity on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Vernon Miller

Penciller(s): Vernon Miller

Inker(s): Vernon Miller

Letterer(s): Vernon Miller

Subject Matter

Genres: childrens

Feature(s): Fun-o-graphs

Synopsis: Three illustrated items: cartoon cut-out activity; optical illusion; word game

Reprinting

From Content Item: Flag

Motion Picture Funnies Weekly #1 published January 1939
was [untitled] [Activity on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Back cover.