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Issue: Target Comics #1 [37]

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Publication Date: March 1943

Detail

Issues: #1 [37] of 105 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Novelty / Premium / Curtis

Brand: none

Indicia Publisher: Novelty Press, Inc.

On Sale Date: 12/30/1942

Volume: 4

Pages: 68

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 12 (9 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Stanley Beaman (uncredited)

Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1943, New Series, Vol. 38, No. 1.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: Color

Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S.

Paper Stock: Newsprint

Binding: Saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series

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Content Items (12 total)

The Ghost Came to Life

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): John Jordan (signed)

Inker(s): John Jordan (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Cadet

Character(s): Dan Merry; Kit Carter

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Pages: 1

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Letters Page on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Ye Editors' Page

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Pages: 1

Notes: Includes letter from Peter Morisi, Brooklyn, NY.

The Ghost Came to Life

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Cuthbert] (signed)

Penciller(s): John Jordan (signed)

Inker(s): John Jordan (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure

Feature(s): Cadet

Character(s): Kit Carter; Dan Merry

Synopsis: Kit meets redhead Glenda Blake at a social, but soon has to rescue her when she is abducted by would-be thieves.

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Pages: 12

Notes: Title from cover.

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Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Art Gates (signed)

Inker(s): Art Gates (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Al T. Tude

Character(s): Al T. Tude; Willie Rodent (villain)

First Line: Study these faces!!

Synopsis: Lawyers tell Al T. Tude that he has been left a fortune by his recently-deceased uncle. The Uncle's will requires Al to prove his worth, though, by besting the cut-throat Willie Rodent in a race to the hidden treasure.

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Pages: 7

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Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): John Daly

Inker(s): John Daly

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Bull's-Eye Bill

First Line: How'd he die, Uncle Ike?

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Pages: 6

Gulliver's Travels Part 4

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Jonathan Swift; ? (adaptation)

Penciller(s): Harold DeLay

Inker(s): Harold DeLay

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Fantastic Feature Films

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Pages: 6

A Pinch of Salt

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Justin Dewey Triem

Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 2

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Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Ed Ryan

Inker(s): Ed Ryan

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Dan'l Flannel

Character(s): Dan'l Flannel; Abu the Mystic; Uncle Dud

First Line: Sech be-e-ootiful teeth!

Synopsis: Dan'l sees Abu the Mystic's show when the circus comes to town, and Abu becomes grateful when Dan'l saves him from robbers. In return, Abu grants Dan'l mental powers. Dan'l reads his Uncle Dud's mind and becomes disturbed by what he sees there.

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Pages: 6

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Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Edward Ryan (signed); Sid Greene (in collaboration with...)

Inker(s): Edward Ryan (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Target and the Targeteers

Character(s): Adolf Hitler (dies this story); Niles Reed (the Target); Ed Ryan (the artist as himself); Satan; God (portrayed as an electrically charged cloud with protruding hands)

First Line: He proclaimed himself God...

Synopsis: Bizarre story, narrated by Niles Reed (The Target) to Ed Ryan in which The Target captures Hitler with the plan of bringing him back to the American justice system. On the way back, God appears to them as a speaking cloud with protruding hands, and puts Hitler through a series of trials before releasing him into a hail of Nazi machine gun bullets.

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Pages: 8

Notes: Ed Ryan draws himself into the story

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Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Jack Warren

Penciller(s): Jack Warren [as Vincent] (signed)

Inker(s): Jack Warren [as Vincent] (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Jack Warren

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Speck, Spot, and Sis

First Line: Speck's one great interest in life these days is his gang

Synopsis: Speck's annoying little sister out-performs him in selling war saving stamps, and Speck sees that his hold on the gang's leadership is slipping.

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Pages: 5

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Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Al Fagaly (signed)

Inker(s): Al Fagaly (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Pete Stockbridge, The Chameleon

Character(s): Pete Stockbridge [The Chameleon]

First Line: The scoop of the year gives Pete Stockbridge his biggest heartache...

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Pages: 10

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Cartoon on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Norman Oliver (signed)

Inker(s): Norman Oliver (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Targetoons

First Line: Go scare someone to death

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Pages: 1

Notes: The possibility exists that "Norman Oliver" is a pen-name of Martin Filchock.