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Issue: America's Best Comics #17 Public Domain
Publication Date: March 1946
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Issues: #17 of 31 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagPines
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Nedor Publishing Company
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 11 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Ned Pines
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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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[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): Black Terror, Fighting Yank, Doc Strange, Pyroman
Character(s): The Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Pyroman [Dick Martin]; The Fighting Yank [Bruce Carter III]; Doc Strange [Thomas Hugo Strange]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Prisoner in a Chinese Laundry

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ed Moritz (signed)
Inker(s): Ed Hamilton (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Black Terror
Character(s): The Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Osaka (villain, introduction), the Japanese (villains)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: Story set between V-E and V-J Day.

Due to confusion with the inker Ed Hamilton, we formerly credited Edmond Hamilton as the scripter of this story.
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Magic Medicine

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): John Easterly
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Durex Formula

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Richard Hughes ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Pyroman
Character(s): Pyroman [Dick Martin]; Nakaki (villain, introduction); the Japanese (villains)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 11
Disclose Notes: Story set between V-E Day and V-J Day.
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Night Riders

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Tex Mumford
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Isotope Tube Terror

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 [Thomas Hugo Strange]; Dr. Randall (introduction); Brangan (villain, introduction)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Tony Loeb [as Loeb] (signed)
Inker(s): Tony Loeb [as Loeb] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Cameron
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.75
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[untitled]

Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): H. L. Herbert (business manager)
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.25
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The Diatomite Man

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Richard Hughes ?
Penciller(s): Ken Battefield
Inker(s): Ken Battefield
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Fighting Yank
Character(s): The Fighting Yank [Bruce Carter III]; Andy Fletcher (introduction); Fewling (villain, introduction, death); Milgram (villain, introduction); other hoods (villains, introduction for all)
First Line: Starting with a mysterious attempt on his life…
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFighting Yank Retro Comics #1 published January 1997
as The Diatomite Man [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Art i.d. from Hames Ware. Originally misidentified as Jon C. Blummer by Bill Black publisher of Fighting Yank Retro Comics (AC, 1997 series) #1, but corrected in his Miss Victory Retro Comics #2.
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Mama Mosquito

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Jiggers
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5

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