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Issue: America's Best Comics #15 Public Domain
Publication Date: October 1945
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Issues: #15 of 31 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagPines
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Nedor Publishing Company
On Sale Date: 07/31/1945
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 10 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Ned Pines [as N. L. Pines]
Disclose Notes: Printed in the U.S.A.

On sale date from the publication date reported to the U.S. Copyright Office found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1945, New Series, Volume 40, Number 4. Class B periodical. Copyright registration number B 692058.
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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
Format Notes:  
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FlagThe Golden Age Review #[nn] published January 1978 as Cover to America's Best Comics #15 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Digital Edition
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Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Alex Schomburg [as Schomburg] (signed)
Inker(s): Alex Schomburg [as Schomburg] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Black Terror; The Fighting Yank; Doc Strange
Character(s): The Black Terror [Bob Benton]; The Fighting Yank [Bruce Carter III]; Doc Strange [Dr. Thomas Hugo Strange]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Given Your Choice of Valuable Gifts or Cash

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Found on the inside front cover.

Illustrated advertisement from Gold Crown Products, offering readers the choice of gifts or cash, simply for selling quantities of Gold Crown Spot Remover and Cleaner. Prices include a leather billfold, holster set, a walky-talky, a birthstone ring, a sweetheart locket, a set of dishes, a baseball set, six teaspoons and more. Coupon provided.
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The Bio-Megascope Menace

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Richard Hughes ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Doc Strange
Character(s): Doc Strange [Dr. Thomas Hugo Strange]; Mike; Virginia; Professor Leroy Dean (inventor); Hiroko (villain, introduction); un-named Japanese (villains); Herman Taub (villain, Dean's assistant, introduction)
Synopsis: Doc and friends see Professor Dean, who has invented a machine that can enlarge living creatures far beyond their normal size by atomic expansion.......an invention that may give the Japanese an advantage in the war.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Job Number: CC-467
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Through the Storm

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Tex Mumford (credited)
Penciller(s): ? (spot illustration)
Inker(s): ? (spot illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Danny Lange; John Lange (Danny's father); Lem Carson (foreman); Sheriff Rand (villain); posse members (villains)
Synopsis: Snug in their cabin during a howling storm and reading a newspaper telling about bank bandits still on the loose, John and Danny hear a knock on the door and admit four men, supposedly a Sheriff and his posse. But Danny spots a clue that tells him the men aren't who they seem to be and alerts the ranch's foreman.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: There is what appears to be an artist signature on the illustration, but it cannot be read.
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One Corpse Too Many!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Black Terror
Character(s): The Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Tim [Tim Roland]; Jean Starr; Professor Brett Wilkins (mechanical inventor, Dexter's Uncle, introduction); Dexter Wilkins (villain, introduction); Biff (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: Druggist Bob Benton arrives for a secret chemical job and finds his client, Brett Wilkins, strangely vanished! The body of a stranger turns up to confuse the picture until Bob and his friend Tim switch to combat garb as the might Terror Twins and break through the dam of hidden evidence to solve the riddle.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Golden Age Review #[nn] published January 1978
as One Corpse Too Many [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Job Number: CC-428
Disclose Notes: Due to confusion with the inker Ed Hamilton, we formerly credited Edmond Hamilton as the scripter of this story.
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Herbie Helps the Police

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Donald Bayne Hobart (credited)
Penciller(s): ? (spot illustration)
Inker(s): ? (spot illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Herbie Johnson; Charlie Sturdy (Herbie's friend); John Smather (banker)
Synopsis: Herbie and Charlie were relaxing on the beach at Atlantic City when they saw two suspicious men holding the arms of a third man, who proved to be a local banker, and who was being robbed by the other two men.
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Pages: 1
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The Invisible Plane

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Richard Hughes ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Fighting Yank
Character(s): The Fighting Yank [Bruce Carter III]; Bruce Carter I (in ghost form); Joan Farwell; un-named Nazi Colonel (villain); The Nazis (villains, some die)
Synopsis: Bruce tells Joan, as she is ready to board a transport plane, that several transports have been recently shot down and he was worried for her safety.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 11
Job Number: CC-265
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[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Volto; Post Grape-Nuts Flakes
Character(s): Volto; Pedro (villain)
Synopsis: Volto helps stop bandits attempting to steal a sacred diamond from a temple.
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Pages: 1
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Giant 3-Foot Precision Ground Lens Telescope

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Found on the inside back cover.

Illustrated advertisement from the Invenco Corporation, offering readers a telescope for $3 and a free carrying case for it.
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New Enlargement

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photos)
Inker(s): ? (photos)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Found on the back cover.

Printed in black and white with shades of red.

Illustrated advertisement from the Dean Studios offering readers free enlargements of any photo or negative to 5" x 7" size, just for sending in a 3 cent stamp with the picture or negative.

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