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Issue: Movie Comics #1
Publication Date: April 1939
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Issues: #1 of 6 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Picture Comics, Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 19 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): C. Elbert; Sheldon Mayer (assistant editor); M. C. Gaines (managing editor)
Disclose Notes: MOVIE COMICS No. 414499—April, 1939—Volume 1, No. 1. Published monthly by PICTURE COMICS, INC., 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, N. Y. M. C. Gaines, Managing Editor; C. Elbert, Editor; Sheldon Mayer, Assistant Editor. Entry as second class matter pending at the Post Office at New York, N. Y. Yearly subscriptions in the U. S. A. and Canada $1.50, elsewhere $2.20. U. S. A. Patent Office Trade Mark No. 414499 under the act of February 20, 1905. For advertising rates address: Combined Publications, Inc., 125 East 46th Street, New York City. Western Office: Harley L. Ward, Inc., 360 N. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Ill.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S.
Paper Stock:  
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Gunga Din

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Jack Adler (airbrushed corrections); Emery Gondor (airbrushed corrections)
Inker(s): Jack Adler; Emery Gondor
Colorist(s): Jack Adler; Emery Gondor
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Sgt. Cutter (Cary Grant); Mac Chesny (Victor McLaughlin); (Ballantine) Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Airbrushed and inked over movie photo stills.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Johnson Smith & Co.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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[untitled]

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): C. Elbert
Colorist(s): Jack Adler
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Now Showing
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Pages: 1
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Gunga Din

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Rudyard Kipling (original poem)
Penciller(s): Jack Adler (corrections); Emery Gondor (corrections)
Inker(s): Jack Adler (corrections); Emery Gondor (corrections)
Colorist(s): Jack Adler (airbrushed); Emery Gondor (airbrushed)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Sgt Cutter (Cary Grant); Mac Chesny (Victor McLaglen); Ballantine (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.); Gunga Din (Sam Jaffee); Emmy Stebbins (Joan Fontaine); Col. Weeks (Monatgue Love); Higginbotham (Robert Coote)
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Pages: 11
Disclose Notes: airbrushed and lettered over movie photo stills
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Fisherman's Wharf

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Adler (corrections); Emery Gondor (corrections)
Inker(s): Jack Adler (corrections); Emery Gondor (corrections)
Colorist(s): Jack Adler (airbrushed); Emery Gondor (airbrushed)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: drama
Character(s): Tony (Booby Breen); Carlo (Leo Carillo); Beppo (Henry Armetta); Stella (Lee Patrick); Angelina (Rosina Galu); Rudolph (Tommy Bupp)
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Pages: 8
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Scouts to the Rescue

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Irving Crump; Wyndham Gittens; George Plympton; Basil Dickey; Joseph Poland
Penciller(s): Jack Adler (corrections); Emery Gondor (corrections)
Inker(s): Jack Adler (corrections); Emery Gondor (corrections)
Colorist(s): Jack Adler (airbrushed); Emery Gondor (airbrushed)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Bruce Scott (Jackie Cooper); Rip Rawson (Dave Durand); Skeets Scanlon (Bill Cody Jr); Mary Scanlon (Vondell Darr)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: continued next issue
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Scouting Trail

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
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Pages: 1
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Killer on Location

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Loring Dowst
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 2
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Movie-Make Up

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Adler (corrections); Emery Gondor (corrections)
Inker(s): Jack Adler (corrections); Emery Gondor (corrections)
Colorist(s): Jack Adler (airbrushed); Emery Gondor (airbrushed)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational
Character(s): Boris Karloff; Bela Lugosi
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Walter Galli (signed)
Penciller(s): Walter Galli
Inker(s): Walter Galli
Colorist(s): Jack Adler; Emery Gondor
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: biography
Feature(s): Screen Scoops
Character(s): John Barrymore; Jackie Cooper; Peter Holden; Henry Armetta; Virginia Weidler; Cary Grant; Victor McLaglen; Leo Carrillo; Bobby Breen; Douglas Fairbanks Jr.; Bela Lugosi; Lionel Atwill; Josephine Hutchinson; Boris Karloff; Basil Rathbone; Donnie Dunagan
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Pages: 3
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The Great Man Votes

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gordon Hillman (original story); John Twist (original screenplay)
Penciller(s): Jack Adler (corrections); Emery Gondor (corrections)
Inker(s): Jack Adler (corrections); Emery Gondor (corrections)
Colorist(s): Jack Adler (airbrushed); Emery Gondor (airbrushed)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: drama
Character(s): Gregory Vance (John Barrymore); Donald Vance (Peter Holden); Joan Vance (Viginia Weilder)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
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Going to Hollywood

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Adler (corrections); Emery Gondor (corrections)
Inker(s): Jack Adler (corrections); Emery Gondor (corrections)
Colorist(s): Jack Adler (airbrushed); Emery Gondor (airbrushed)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens
Feature(s): The Adventures of Phoozy
Character(s): Phoozy
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Smitty (signed)
Penciller(s): Smitty (signed)
Inker(s): Smitty (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Action Camera
First Line: Oooops- Gosh!
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Pages: 1
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Terrors of the Tomb

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Ed Wheelan
Penciller(s): Ed Wheelan
Inker(s): Ed Wheelan
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Ed Wheelan
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Minute Movies
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Horace Hope

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harry Lampert
Penciller(s): Harry Lampert
Inker(s): Harry Lampert
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Movietown
Character(s): Horace Hope
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Pages: 3
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Son of Frankenstein

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Willie Cooper (screenplay)
Penciller(s): Jack Adler (corrections); Emery Gondor (corrections)
Inker(s): Jack Adler (corrections); Emery Gondor (corrections)
Colorist(s): Jack Adler (airbrushed); Emery Gondor (airbrushed)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): The Monster (Boris Karloff); Ygor (Bela Lugosi); Wolf von Frankenstein (Basil Rathbone); Krogh (Lionel Atwill); Elsa (Josephine Hutchinson); Peter (Donnie Dunagan); Amelia (Emma Dunn); Benson (Edgar Norton)
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Pages: 8
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Coming Attractions
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Here It Is Folks!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Sheldon Mayer
Inker(s): Sheldon Mayer
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): All-American Comics
Character(s): Scribbly; Mutt and Jeff; Toonerville Folks; Tippie; Skippy
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Johnson Smith & Co.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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