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Issue: The Adventures of Homer Cobb #1
Publication Date: September 1947
 
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Issues: #1 of 1 Issue
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagSay-Bart Productions
Brand: A B Publication
Indicia Publisher: Say-Bart Productions, Inc.
On Sale Date: 07/09/1947
Volume: 1
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 8 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Printed in Canada but published in Chicago. Indicia states "published bi-monthly" but only one issue was ever published. Indexed from a scanned copy from goldenagecomics.co.uk.

The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Vol. 1, Part 2, Nos. 1&2, Periodicals, 1946-1947.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Oversized Golden Age U. S.
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior
Binding:  
Publishing Format: One-Shot
Format Notes:  
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Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): Al Feldstein ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: teen
Feature(s): Homer Cobb
Character(s): Homer Cobb; Cynthia
First Line: Gee! I sure wish she's make up her mind!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Scavenger Hunt...

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): Al Feldstein
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: teen
Feature(s): Homer Cobb
Character(s): Homer Cobb; Cynthia; Margie; Augie
Synopsis: Homer and Augie team up against the girls in a scavenger hunt and end up alienating them.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Story is not signed, but copy that was indexed was autographed by Feldstein, leading to the assumption that he believed it was his work. However, Feldstein in his 2013 biography states that he only inked this issue (and wasn't paid for that).
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The Quiz Expert

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): Al Feldstein
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: teen
Feature(s): Homer Cobb
Character(s): Homer Cobb
Synopsis: Homer is selected to be on a quiz show and wears his father's graduation gown and cap. In trying to protect the cap, he ends up running afoul of the law.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
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My Twenty Dollar Lucky Piece

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: teen
Feature(s): Homer Cobb
Character(s): Homer Cobb
Synopsis: Homer Cobb narrates a story of a statue of one of his ancestors that he throws money at for luck.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Somebody's Baby

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): Al Feldstein (pages 1-3,5); ? (pages 4,6-8)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: teen
Feature(s): Homer Cobb
Character(s): Homer Cobb; Cynthia
Synopsis: Cynthia tricks Homer into babysitting.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: The pages that appear not to have been done by Feldstein are inked very amateurishly; and while the layouts appear to be by Feldstein, he denies penciling any of this issue (2013).
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): Al Feldstein
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: teen
Feature(s): Perry The Parrot
Character(s): Perry the Parrot; Augie; Homer Cobb; Cynthia
First Line: Perry's No Longer The Berries!
Synopsis: Augie has a party at his house and Perry the Parrot destroys all the food in the kitchen.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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A Date With Bana Burner

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): Al Feldstein
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: teen
Feature(s): Homer Cobb
Character(s): Homer Cobb; Bana Burner; Cynthia; Augie; Pebbles
Synopsis: Homer is having trouble selling tickets to his school dance until he comes up with the idea of a draw to win a date with a famous Hollywood movie star.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): Al Feldstein
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: teen
Feature(s): Pebbles
Character(s): Pebbles; Punchy
First Line: All work and no play makes me a dull boy.
Synopsis: Pebbles gets Punchy to deliver a paper to his father with disasterous results.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Appears to be at least somewhat Feldstein's work, but much less refined/finished than the rest of the book.

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