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Issue: Great Comics #1 Public Domain
Publication Date: November 1941
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Issues: #1 of 3 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagGreat Comics
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Great Comics Publications, Inc.
On Sale Date: 10/07/1941
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 26 (24 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): S. M. Iger ?
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1941, New Series, Vol. 36, No. 4.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Great Zarro
Character(s): The Great Zarro; Rags
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Art revision from Larson Wells to ? by Craig Delich. Larson Wells was a by-line only used on this strip.
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Origin of the Great Zarro

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Larson Wells] (credited)
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Great Zarro
Character(s): The Great Zarro [aka "Eagle Man"] (former circus aerialist, introduction, origin); Rags (a young boy, introduction); Pete Lahar (pilot, introduction); an old Gypsy woman (in flashback, introduction); circus owner (introduction, in flashback, death); Rag's sister (introduction, in flashback, death); Schwindler (villain, introduction, death); Ganzman (villain, introduction, death)
Synopsis: A pilot is hired by two foreign nationals to fly them to the Grand Toulee Dam, not knowing that they intend the blow the structure up. Saved by Zarro, the pilot is told of the young man's origins, then together they track down the villains and save the dam.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Script and art revision by Craig Delich. Larson Wells is a by-line on this strip and not the name of the actual person working on this feature.

Some of the story is told in flashback.
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George Washington

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): Great Fighters
Character(s): George Washington
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Plague of the Yellow Dragons

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Guy Gorham
Character(s): Guy Gorham (introduction); Zarita (introduction); Dr. Moluk (villain, introduction, death); Scorpo (villain, introduction, death)
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In Content Item: FlagPulp Fiction #4 published March 1998
as The Plague of the Yellow Dragons [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Search for Charles King

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Art Saaf
Inker(s): Art Saaf
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Great Manhunts
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Art credits identified by Art Saaf index.
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Franz Von Papen / Dr. Heinrich Albert / Mata Hari

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): World's Great Spies
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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Hunt for the Malay Elephant

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Andre LeBlanc
Inker(s): Andre LeBlanc
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Buck Johnson
Character(s): Buck Johnson (introduction); Irene (introduction)
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In Content Item: FlagJungle Comics #4 published March 1998
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]Page 3 cut
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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Princess Pursuit

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Frank Little
Penciller(s): Frank Little
Inker(s): Frank Little
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Knight and Daye
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Sir Upp removed from pencil credit by Craig Delich, and listed here. IF this was a pen name, it is NOT the pen name for Little, who, indeed, wrote and drew this feature.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Montmorency Twerp
Character(s): Montmorency Twerp
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Frank Little
Penciller(s): Frank Little
Inker(s): Frank Little
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Clambake the Magician
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Watt A. Lyre removed from pencil credit and listed her by Craig Delich. IF this was a pen name, it was not one used by Little who wrote and drew this feature.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bob Kane
Penciller(s): Bob Kane
Inker(s): Bob Kane
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Bob Kane ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Life in the Roar
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: This is really Bob Kane.

Letterer credit by Craig Delich.
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Mein Kemp Von Der Chungle

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Llamuz
Penciller(s): Llamuz
Inker(s): Llamuz
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Snarzan the Ape
First Line: In a far corner of Junglemania sits a lonely figure, Adolph, the cave painter, taking a day off to rewrite the Ten Commandments...
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In Content Item: FlagBlackthorne 3-D Series #1 published May 1985
as Mein Kemp Von Der Chungle [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: maybe Frank Little, but I'm not sure
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bob Kane
Penciller(s): Bob Kane
Inker(s): Bob Kane
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Ollie
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: this is really Bob Kane, too
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Frank and Meek
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Brain-Busted Dynamo

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Heza Souse
Penciller(s): Heza Souse
Inker(s): Heza Souse
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Soup-Or-Man
Character(s): Soup-Or-Man (first appearance)
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: looks like Dr. Seuss, kinda
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Milty and His Ma
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Llamuz
Penciller(s): Llamuz
Inker(s): Llamuz
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Smoothie
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Ghost of Snaggle Castle

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Slabba Eyce
Penciller(s): Slabba Eyce
Inker(s): Slabba Eyce
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
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In Content Item: FlagJerry Iger's Golden Features #5 published October 1986
as The Ghost of Snaggle Castle [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: I'm not making these pseudonyms up!
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Hail All Barberania

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Barberania
Character(s): Dan Druff (first appearance); Manny Cure (first appearance); Herr Cutt (first appearance)
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Pages: 1
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King of the Canvas Kissers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Fletcher Hanks [as Haye Maker]
Penciller(s): Fletcher Hanks [as Haye Maker]
Inker(s): Fletcher Hanks [as Haye Maker]
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Moe M. Downe
Character(s): Moe M. Downe (first appearance)
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In Content Item: FlagPulp Fiction #4 published March 1998
as King of the Canvas Kissers [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Attribution on December 29, 2009, by Paul Karasik, Editor of "I Shall Destroy All The Civilized Planets!" and "You Shall Die By Your Own Evil Creation!" Faces are retouched by Seymour Reit.
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Warmer Brothers Present Safety First

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Origin of the Bat

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Don DeConn
Penciller(s): Don DeConn
Inker(s): Don DeConn
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Crisis in Sector Five

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Rudy Palais
Inker(s): Rudy Palais
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Devildogs Three
Character(s): Devildogs Three [Tex Burton (first appearance); Windy Wyeth (first appearance); Pete Perkins (first appearance)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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The Plot to Capture Hawaii

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Chuck Winter [as Achmed Zudella] (signed)
Inker(s): Chuck Winter [as Achmed Zudella] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Madame Strange
Character(s): Madame Strange (introduction); Bonza (villain, Japanese, introduction, death); Bohlog (villain, introduction); Pedro (villain, introduction, death); Dingo Bill (villain, introduction); Mato (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: As Madam Strange walks the streets of a Hawaiian island, she is shot at, but is able to capture one of the felons, and learns that Bonza, the kingpin of Axis agents, is behind it. If he is successful in overthrowing the island's government and execute its leaders, it means millions to Bohlog.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Madam Strange in an expert knife thrower.

Story line continued next issue.
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[untitled]

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Thurstan Merlin
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Secrets of Magic
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: In red tones on inside back cover.
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Miracle Pictures Presents "Gold Dust or Bust"

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Watz Izz Name
Penciller(s): Watz Izz Name
Inker(s): Watz Izz Name
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1

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