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Issue: Captain Flight Comics #5 Public Domain
Publication Date: December 1944
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Issues: #5 of 11 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagFour Star Publications
Brand: A Four-Star PublicationView Brand Images2
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On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume:
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 13 (12 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Feature(s): Red Rocket
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: aviation, war
Feature(s): Captain Flight
Character(s): Captain Flight; Jerry McGuire (pilot); Parker (pilot); Dale (pilot)
First Line: Far above the famous black forests, Captain Flight innocently gets wedged in cross-fire...
Synopsis: Captain Flight has an emergency landing on a hidden runway inside a mountain, hiding a secret plane factory.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: The stories with the byline Frank Stevens vary in artwork in this comic book, so it has to be several artists at work. Compare artwork with Fiction House Fight #31.
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Genres: humorous, sports
Feature(s): Plug McTee
Character(s): Plug McTee (boxer); Manager
First Line: Are youse de Plug McTee outfit?
Synopsis: McTee's manager gets ten grand for quitting the boxing racket.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Flame #3 published May 1955
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Jerry Bails' Who's Who has Fist E. Cuffs as a pen name for Schwab.
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Genres: espionage
Feature(s): Secret Agent 2B-3
Character(s): Secret Agent 2B-3; Jim Carson
First Line: Yes, Sir, I am Jim Carson. What can I do for you?
Synopsis: A man is offering Agent 2B-3 one million dollars for a new fighting aircraft.
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The Protection Slip Racket

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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Red Rocket
Character(s): The Red Rocket [Rod Page] (first appearance); Punchy; Mrs. Namreh
Synopsis: Red finds a glove in the hand of a storekeeper murdered by racketeers.
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Cremation

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Writer(s): Joe Cleary
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Genres: mystery
Character(s): Cornelius Tanner; Mrs. Cornelius Tanner; Undertaker
Synopsis: A wife gets more than she bargained for after attempting to poison her husband and have him cremated.
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Blazing Skies

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Writer(s): T. Shelton
Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: war
Character(s): Joan Ashley (WAC); Major Clark
Synopsis: Japanese air raids on an American held island .
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Wilted Flower

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Writer(s): W. C. Shields (byline)
Penciller(s): W. C. Shields (byline)
Inker(s): W. C. Shields (byline)
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Bonzo the Great
Character(s): Bonzo
Synopsis: Bonzo brings his wilted flower to a man playing the clarinet. Saliva from the clarinet refreshes the flower.
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The Case of the Limping Nazi

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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Grenade
Character(s): The Grenade [Bruce Corbett] (first appearance; only appearance); Danny Corbett; The Fat-Man (Nazi); Zongo (half man-half beast); Pumpernickle
Synopsis: Bruce Corbett's brother is killed by a beast controlled by a Nazi gang.
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Pages: 8
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Flight Fun

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Writer(s): Lyne (byline)
Penciller(s): Lyne (byline)
Inker(s): Lyne (byline)
Colorist(s): ?
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Genres: humorous
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Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Rock Raymond
Character(s): Rock Raymond; King Satius (Saturnian ruler); Dr. Stelli; King Morono (Plutonian ruler)
First Line: Send word to the Governor of the sixteenth satelite, that we arrive today!
Synopsis: The king of Saturn has been kidnapped by the Plutonian idiots.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: The word "satellite" is spelled incorrectly in the story.
The faces give away Kiefer as the artist.
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Writer(s): Gosh (byline)
Penciller(s): Gosh (byline)
Inker(s): Gosh (byline)
Colorist(s): ?
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Genres: teen
Feature(s): Ferdie and his Friends
Character(s): Ferdie; Blimp; Gert
First Line: Well, Blimp, here we are...
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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Deep-Sea Dawson
Character(s): Dawson; Queen of the Weed People
First Line: One thousand feet below the heaving sea into the fathomless pit of mystery
Synopsis: A creature with clammy green fingers pulls ships under the sea and Dawson is sent to investigate.
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Pages: 8

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