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Issue: National Comics #52 Public Domain
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
Indicia Publisher: Comic Magazines
On Sale Date: 12/05/1945
Volume:
Pages: 60
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 11 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): George Brenner
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1945, New Series, Vol. 40, No. 4.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Al Bryant
Al Bryant
?
?
Subject Matter
adventure, humorous
Barker
The Barker [Carnie Callahan]
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Miscellaneous
1
The Jinx

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Gwen Hansen
Klaus Nordling
Klaus Nordling
?
?
Subject Matter
adventure, humorous
Barker
The Barker [Carnie Callahan]; The Jinx (first appearance, villain)
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Miscellaneous
11
Writer credit formerly "Klaus Nordling".
The Case of Old Man Hogin

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Gene Fawcette
Gene Fawcette
?
?
Subject Matter
mystery
Sally O'Neil Policewoman
Sally O'Neil; Old Man Hogin (first appearance, villain); Mr. Davis (first appearance); Miss Avery (first appearance); Mrs. Douglas (first appearance)
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Miscellaneous
8
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Bernard Dibble
Bernard Dibble
Bernard Dibble
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Salty Waters
Salty Waters; Professor
Just wait'll the professor sees what I brought him back from the Central Pacific!
Salty brings back a "ja-do-do" bird egg, only to have the Professor say the bird's been extinct for 108 years. Nobody told the egg, and it hatches.
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Miscellaneous
1
This is the same premise as the "Big Top" story in Feature Comics (Quality Comics, 1939 series) #99 (June 1946), except in that story it was a "prehistoric flying lizard's egg."
The Winner!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Bill Quackenbush
Bill Quackenbush
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Quicksilver
Quicksilver [Max]; Socker Sampson (first appearance); Heavy (first appearance, villain); Galdo (first appearance, villain); their gang (first appearance, villain)
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Miscellaneous
7
Zinnia and Stinky

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jack Cole
Jack Cole
Jack Cole
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Windy Breeze
Windy Breeze
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Miscellaneous
1
Admiral Bilge's Plan

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Andre LeBlanc
Andre LeBlanc
Andre LeBlanc
?
?
Subject Matter
adventure, childrens, humorous
Intellectual Amos
Intellectual Amos; Admiral Bilge (first appearance, villain); Phineas Demi-John (first appearance, villain)
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Miscellaneous
6
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Bernard Dibble
Bernard Dibble
Bernard Dibble
?
?
Subject Matter
childrens, humorous
Lassie
Lassie; Laddie; Roger; Roberta; Agatha Fitzbully; Mr. Fitzbully
I wish we had another dog at our house!
Lassie buys a monkey for a pet. Havoc results.
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Miscellaneous
7
Roberta is back to being Lassie's sister in this issue.
The Agrilistas

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
typeset
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Miscellaneous
2
The Wrong Whistler

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Vernon Henkel
Vernon Henkel
Vernon Henkel
?
?
Subject Matter
mystery, superhero
Whistler
The Whistler [Mallory Drake]; A. Biddle (first appearance); The Boss (first appearance, villain); Max (first appearance, villain); another hood (first appearance, villain)
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Miscellaneous
6
Somewhere Off the Coast of Japan

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Al Camy ?
Al Camy ?
?
?
Subject Matter
war
Destroyer 171
The Japanese (villains)
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Miscellaneous
7

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