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Issue: Comic Cavalcade #3
Publication Date: January 1943
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Issues: #3 of 63 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: A Superman DC PublicationView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: All-American Comics, Inc.
On Sale Date: 06/15/1943
Volume: none
Pages: 92
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.15 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 28 (14 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Sheldon Mayer (editor)
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from copyright registration.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S.
Paper Stock: Glossy Cardboard cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: Squarebound #1-41; Saddle-stitched #42-63
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Frank Harry
Inker(s): Frank Harry
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Wonder Woman; The Flash; Green Lantern
Character(s): The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]
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In Issue: FlagComic Cavalcade Archives #1 published June 2005
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Pages: 1
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Editorial Advisory Board

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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What's in This Issue of Comic Cavalcade

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.67
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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The Invisible Invader

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): William Marston [as Charles Moulton] (credited)
Penciller(s): Harry Peter [as H. G. Peter] (signed)
Inker(s): Harry Peter [as H. G. Peter] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Wonder Woman
Character(s): Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Steve Trevor; General Darnell; Etta Candy; the Holliday Girls [Bee Strong; rest unnamed]; Captain Eric Lander (introduction); a group of Nazi soldiers [Schmitt; rest unnamed] (villains, introduction for all)
Synopsis: Steve shows Diana a newspaper announcement concerning the dedication ceremonies of a Global War Heroes monument that Wonder Woman is supposed to speak at. Wonder Woman is about to speak when the monument blows up, but mysteriously, as the debris clears, the monument is still intact, then disappears in a column of black smoke. Wonder Woman finally gets to the bottom of the mystery, when she comes face to face with Eric Lander, an American-born man of German descent, who has invented a silent, self-camouflaging space bomber that the Nazis intend to terrorize the U.S. with!
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In Issue: FlagComic Cavalcade Archives #1 published June 2005
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Pages: 13
Disclose Notes: Story title from table of contents. Writer credit from "The Secret History of Wonder Woman" (Jill Lapore, 2014).
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Subject Matter
Feature(s): Wonder Woman
First Line: In this magazine is the exciting story of...
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Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Feature(s): Green Lantern; Mutt & Jeff
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Pages: 0.5
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Smith [as Bud Fisher]
Penciller(s): Al Smith [as Bud Fisher]
Inker(s): Al Smith [as Bud Fisher]
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Al Smith
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Mutt & Jeff
Character(s): Mutt; Jeff
First Line: Whoopeee! That horse paid twenty to one!
Synopsis: Mutt attends an auction to bid on an old family heirloom.
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In Issue: FlagComic Cavalcade Archives #1 published June 2005
Reprint Notes: from Mutt & Jeff Sunday (Bell Syndicate) ?
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Newspaper reprints. Most of the strips are also signed as Fisher.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed)
Penciller(s): Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed)
Inker(s): Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Al Smith
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Mutt & Jeff
Character(s): Mutt; Jeff; Mutt's wife
First Line: So you're Augustus Mutt!
Synopsis: Mutt is a lifeguard who saves a beautiful gal, who kisses Mutt in thanks, and he gets a black eye from his wife over it.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Also in Mutt & Jeff (DC, 1939 series) #5.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed)
Penciller(s): Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed)
Inker(s): Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Al Smith
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Mutt & Jeff
Character(s): Mutt; Cicero; Mutt's wife
First Line: Now, the secret of successful fishing, my love, is complete silence!
Synopsis: Mutt, his wife and son are out fishing, and she catches a fish that pulls her in the water.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Also in Mutt & Jeff (DC, 1939 series) #5.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed)
Penciller(s): Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed)
Inker(s): Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Al Smith
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Mutt & Jeff
Character(s): Mutt; Jeff; Mutt's wife
First Line: Mm-m-m-m lady lifeguards!
Synopsis: Jeff is walking along the beach and notices several female lifeguards, so he jumps in the water and pretends he is drowning.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Also in Mutt & Jeff (DC, 1939 series) #5.
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The Guy Who Liked Bananas!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gardner Fox
Penciller(s): Jon Chester Kozlak [as CK] (signed)
Inker(s): Jon Chester Kozlak [as CK] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The King
Character(s): The King [King Standish]; The Witch; Bananas Dawson (villain, introduction, death); Dawson's gang [Killer; rest unnamed] (villains, introduction for all); "Big John" (villain, a mobster, introduction, in flashback)
Synopsis: Bananas brags to his prisoner, the Witch, and tells her how he got into the rackets, having been born in Satan's Basement on the east side, and spending his days swiping bananas, which then leads him to become a crime boss, thinking up crackerjack crimes that the King finds interesting. Unfortunately, bananas, which he likes so much, leads to his downfall.
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In Issue: FlagComic Cavalcade Archives #1 published June 2005
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Kozlak placed his initials "CK" in the newspaper in panel 6 on page 5.
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Meyer Levin

Public Service Announcement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Hop Harrigan Quarterly Award for Flying Heroism
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Master Sergeant Meyer Levin, Bombardier and Hero

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jon L. Blummer (signed)
Penciller(s): Jon L. Blummer (signed)
Inker(s): Jon L. Blummer (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Jon L. Blummer
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, war
Character(s): Master Sergeant Meyer Levin [aka Mike] (death); Captain Colin P. Kelly (death); Sergeant William J. Delehanty (death)
Synopsis: The true story of Meyer Levin, war hero and bombadier, whose parents received the first Hop Harrigan Award For Flying Heroism.
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In Issue: FlagComic Cavalcade Archives #1 published June 2005
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Pages: 5
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A Little Savage Revenge!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jon L. Blummer (signed)
Penciller(s): Jon L. Blummer (signed)
Inker(s): Jon L. Blummer (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Jon L. Blummer
Subject Matter
Genres: aviation
Feature(s): Hop Harrigan
Character(s): Hop Harrigan; Tank Tinker; un-named native Chief (introduction); the Japanese (villains, introduction for all, some die)
Synopsis: Hop and Tank are over the South Seas on a mission when they spot Japanese planes attacking a peaceful native outrigger canoe. Hop lands and rescues the native, but the Japanese see this and attack Hop's plane. Hop flees, but suddenly loses consciousness and wakes a prisoner of the natives, who are going to kill him and Tank. Suddenly, the Japanese air commander arrives on the scene and demands that Hop and Tank be turned over to him. Quick-thinking Tank turns the natives against the Japanese, who are attacked and beaten. Hop radios his own forces from one of the Zeros and is rescued.
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In Issue: FlagComic Cavalcade Archives #1 published June 2005
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Pages: 6
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Here It Is--

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Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): All-American Flying Club
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Pages: 1
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One-Way Ticket

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Evelyn Gaines (credited)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery, romantic
Character(s): Nora (the housekeeper); Mr. Arnold (death); Joe Merwin (villain, fire inspector)
Synopsis: Nora gets a ticket to a performance at the Castle Theatre, so she dresses and says goodnight to her employer, Mr. Arnold. A shadowy figure: a dishonet fire inspector, pulls a gun on Arnold, kills him, then wipes the gun clean, making it appear a suicide. A Policeman sees Merwin jumps out a window, and fires at him, hitting him. Merwin is subdued, and asks how the Police knew he had killed Arnold. The Policeman showed him Nora, whose dress was burnt and singed from a fire at the Castle Theatre, and whom the Police were detailed to bring home. So it was Merwin himself who confessed to the crime.
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In Issue: FlagComic Cavalcade Archives #1 published June 2005
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The Man Most Likely to Succeed

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): John Wentworth
Penciller(s): Sheldon Moldoff
Inker(s): Sheldon Moldoff
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Feature(s): Sargon the Sorcerer
Character(s): Sargon [John Sargent]; Luke Brown (a lawyer, special prosecutor, introduction); unnamed Mayor (introduction); Al Tyrone (villain, introduction); Tyrone's mob (villains, introduction for all)
Synopsis: Lawyer Luke Brown, once thought of as a person that was most likely to succeed, now considers himself a failure. He once refused to join the dreaded Tyrone mob, and ever since, Tyrone has frightened off clients left and right. But Sargon helps get Brown appointed as a prosecutor, and now Brown has the chance to nail the Tyrone mob and become the success he wants to be.
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In Issue: FlagComic Cavalcade Archives #1 published June 2005
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Pages: 6
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The Minute Man Answers the Call

Public Service Announcement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): M. C. Gaines (signed)
Penciller(s): Sheldon Moldoff [as Shelly] (signed)
Inker(s): Sheldon Moldoff [as Shelly] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: informational
Character(s): Uncle Sam; General George Washington; General Charles Cornwallis
Synopsis: Throughout history, American men have been ready and willing at a moment's notice to stand and fight for this nation's freedom...a call now being accepted by a new generation of "minute men"! The story of how the Minuteman--the citizen-soldier--helped win the American Revolution, their spirit has watched over America's other battles against tyranny, and how that spirit lives on in 1943.
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In Issue: FlagComic Cavalcade Archives #1 published June 2005
From Content Item: FlagWorld's Finest Comics #8 published January 1942
was The Minute Man Answers the Call [Public Service Announcement on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: War bond promo; appears as a pamphlet for the Junior JSA membership kit and in several DC comics in late '42/early '43:
Sensation Comics (DC, 1942 series) #11 (November 1942)
All-Flash (DC, 1941 series) #6 (September-October 1942)
Mutt & Jeff (DC, 1939 series) #6 (Fall 1942)
Comic Cavalcade (DC, 1942 series) #3 (Summer 1943)
World's Finest Comics (DC, 1941 series) #8 (Winter 1942-1943)
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A Letter to You from Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker!

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The Bushmaster!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Finger
Penciller(s): Stan Asch [as Mart Nodell] (signed)
Inker(s): Stan Asch [as Mart Nodell] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Green Lantern
Character(s): The Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Doiby Dickles, Irene Miller; Doctor Davies (zoo curator, introduction); John Ames (inventor, introduction); The Bushmaster (villain, a Nazi spy, introduction, death); Bushmaster's mob [Miguel; rest unnamed] (villains, introduction for all)
Synopsis: Someone has attempted to break into the reptile house at the city zoo, where very dangerous snakes are kept. John Ames tells Doiby and Irene that this occurred due to the actions of the Bushmaster, a Nazi spy who was chased out of South America and is now in town wanting Ames's formula for making balsa wood bullet proof.
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In Issue: FlagComic Cavalcade Archives #1 published June 2005
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Pages: 13
Disclose Notes: Alan Scott works for Apex Studios in this story.
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Feature(s): All-Flash
First Line: If you like the Flash's pals...
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Feature(s): All-Star Comics; The Justice Society of America
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Pages: 0.5
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Balboa

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Don C. Cameron ?
Penciller(s): Sheldon Moldoff [as Shelly] (signed)
Inker(s): Sheldon Moldoff [as Shelly] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: informational
Feature(s): Picture Stories from History
Character(s): Vasco Nunez de Balboa; Ridrigo de Bastidas (outfitter); Hortado; Captain Ojeda (villain); Encisco (villain)
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In Issue: FlagComic Cavalcade Archives #1 published June 2005
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Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: The story of Vasco Nunez de Balboa is told, from the time that he was 17 years old in 1492, and until he named the South Sea (Pacific Ocean) and was made Governor of Panama.
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Last of the Thunderbirds

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Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: aviation
Feature(s): Hop Harrigan
Character(s): Hop Harrigan; Tank Tinker; Charlie Thunderbird [Charlie T. Sharp] (death); Major Sharp; the Japanese (villains, some die)
Synopsis: Major Sharp chews Hop out for going on a mission with an Apache Indian, Charlie Thunderbird, who is killed in the line of duty, and who displayed great heroism. The Major wants to award Charlie a medal and give it to the next of kin, but Hop replies he had no next of kin. After Hop leaves the office, Major Sharp sadly reaches into his desk drawer and pulls out a picture of Charlie Thunderbird in a silver frame with air wings at the bottom, and inscribed: "Apaches are warriors...warriors die young...your loving brother, Charlie T. Sharp!"
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In Issue: FlagComic Cavalcade Archives #1 published June 2005
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Pages: 1.5
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Third Dramatic Issue

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Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Feature(s): Picture Stories from the Bible
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: An illustrated promo ad for Picture Stories From the Bible, Old Testament Edition, #3, with cover, and providing an order form.
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The Laws of Pumpkin Center

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gardner Fox [as Gardner F. Fox] (credited)
Penciller(s): Lou Ferstadt [as E. E. Hibbard] (credited)
Inker(s): Lou Ferstadt [as E. E. Hibbard] (credited)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Flash
Character(s): The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Joan Williams; Pumpkin Center Sheriff (introduction); Pumpkin City residents (introduction for all); the Eel [Eels Madden] (villain, introduction); Eel's gang (villains, introduction for all); Ollie (villain, Eel's lawyer, introduction)
Synopsis: Eels Madden's gang a small hick town named Pumpkin Center, a town that has some very strange laws. Looking them over, Eel's brain devises a scheme to put those laws to his own advantage. As a result, the Flash and Joan, in town on other business, find it difficult to circumvent the law and bring the Eel to justice!
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In Issue: FlagComic Cavalcade Archives #1 published June 2005
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Pages: 13
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The Big Eight!

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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Knickerbocker Pub. Co.
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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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