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Issue: Exciting Comics #1 (22)

- Attribution History

Publication Date: October 1942

Detail

Issues: #1 (22) of 69 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Pines

Brand: none

Indicia Publisher: Better Publications, Inc.

On Sale Date: 08/18/1942

Volume: 8

Pages: 68

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 11 (9 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Ned Pines [as N. L. Pines] (president)

Notes: Some info verified using a DCM scan (http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/)

The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1942, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 4, page 450, registration number B555709.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Golden Age US

Paper Stock: glossy cover, newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing

Format Notes:

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1 Content Item
- The Machine That Raised the Dead [Story on Interior Page(s)]1

reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue.

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Cover, Front

Original Artwork

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Title Page

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Content Items (11 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): ? (swipe)

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): The American Eagle

Character(s): The American Eagle

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Pages: 1

Notes: Cover marquee: "Introducing The American Eagle Democracy's Champion"
Cover is swiped from title panel of interior story.

The Weather Wreckers

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Richard Hughes ?

Penciller(s): David Gabrielsen

Inker(s): David Gabrielsen

Colorist(s): Richard Hughes ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): The Black Terror

Character(s): Barometri (introduction)

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Pages: 13

The Machine That Raised the Dead

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Richard Hughes ?

Penciller(s): Kin Platt [as Kin] (signed)

Inker(s): Kin Platt [as Kin] (signed)

Colorist(s): Richard Hughes ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): The American Eagle

Character(s): The American Eagle [Tom Standish]; The Eaglet [Bud Pierce](introduction and origin); Dr. Ennis (introduction, death); Klauber (villain, introduction, death); Blackbeard and other villains (villains, introduction, death)

Synopsis: A clever Nazi spy learns of a scientist's invention that can bring the dead back to life and kills the man who invented it so he can secure the machine to bring great villains from the past back to life. Bud dons a costume for the first time [Bud says to himself: "Guess I'm The American Eaglet Now, Huh?"] to help his mentor battle for his life!

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Men of Mystery Comics #84 published January 2011
as The Machine That Raised the Dead [Story on Interior Page(s)]in black and white

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Pages: 13

Notes: First appearance in America's Best Comics #2.

Clarion Call

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Carl Sturdy

Colorist(s): Carl Sturdy

Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 1

The Bulletproof Men

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): The Liberator

Character(s): Dr. Voss (introduction, death); Nazis

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Pages: 11

Circus Lad

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Morley Burroughs

Colorist(s): Morley Burroughs

Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 1

Ted Crane at the Top of the World

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): George Mandel

Inker(s): George Mandel

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Ted Crane

Character(s): Dr. Cobra (introduction); Hakawaya; the Dalai Lama

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Pages: 8

Conspiracy by the Clock

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Bob Oksner

Inker(s): Bob Oksner

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Pepper Swift

Character(s): Felix Pierre (introduction)

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Pages: 7

It's a Smash Hit!

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): The Black Terror (inset); Doc Strange (inset); The American Eagle (inset); Captain Future (inset); Secret Ace (inset)); The Woman in Red (inset)

Synopsis: Promo for America's Best Comics

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Larry Saves a Vital Rubber Shipment

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Robert Leslie Bellem ?

Penciller(s): Max Plaisted

Inker(s): Max Plaisted

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Larry North U.S.N.

Character(s): Frieda Schmidt (introduction); Nazis

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Pages: 6

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Ray McGill

Penciller(s): Ray McGill (signed)

Inker(s): Ray McGill (signed)

Colorist(s): Ray McGill

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Rookie Riley

First Line: Say Riley -- now keep this under ya hat --

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Pages: 3