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Issue: Jumbo Comics #10

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Publication Date: October 1939

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Detail

Issues: #10 of 167 Issues (168 Printings)

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Fiction House

Brand: none

Indicia Publisher: Real Adventures Publishing Co., Inc.

On Sale Date: 08/09/1939

Volume: 1

Pages: 68

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 12 (11 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Malcolm Reiss (Editor); Will Eisner (Art Director); S. M. Iger (Feature Editor)

Notes: First standard-sized issue.

On sale date from the publication date found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 34, 1939, Number 4. Second class periodical. Copyright number 424739.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: Black and White (#1-8); Color (#9 onwards)

Dimensions: Tabloid:10.5 x 14 1/2 (#1-8); 8.5 x 10.5 inches (#9); Standard Golden Age U.S. (#10 onwards)

Paper Stock: Newsprint

Binding: Saddle-Stitched

Publishing Format: Was ongoing series

Format Notes:

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1 Content Item
- [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]0

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1 Content Item
- [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]1

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Cover, Front

Original Artwork

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Title Page

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Content Items (12 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): Lou Fine

Inker(s): Lou Fine

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Feature(s): Stuart Taylor in Weird Stories of the Supernatural

Reprinting

In Issue:

Action! Mystery! Thrills! Comic Book Covers of the Golden Age: 1933-45 #[nn] published December 2011

In Content Item: Flag

Ace Comics Presents #4 published November 1987
as Lou Fine Cover Gallery [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as W. Morgon Thomas]

Penciller(s): Bob Powell

Inker(s): Bob Powell

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: jungle

Feature(s): Sheena

Character(s): Sheena; Bob; Namu (lion, dies); Tamur (zebra); Teeka (lesser ape); Leeta (leopard; dies)

First Line: After escaping from the mad king, Sheena, Bob...

Synopsis: Sheena gets her leopard costume after Bob kills a leopard named Leeta.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes: from Wags (Australia)(1936 series)

Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

Notes: Panels have been cut up and rearranged. Most of them have been blow up very large so that there are only 4 panels rather than 8-9.

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Peter Pupp

Character(s): Peter Pupp; Tinymite; Fooy On Yu; Ah Choo

First Line: Peter and Tinymite found to their amusment that...

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 4

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Curt Davis]

Penciller(s): Lou Fine

Inker(s): Lou Fine

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Feature(s): Stuart Taylor in Weird Stories of the Supernatural

First Line: Projecting themselves by their own invention into time, ..

Reprinting

Reprint Notes: from Wags (Australia)(1936 series)

Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

Notes: formerly Weird Stories of the Supernatural

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): S. M. Iger

Penciller(s): S. M. Iger

Inker(s): S. M. Iger

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Bobby

Character(s): Bobby; his mom

First Line: Mom, I'm gonna be independent-I'm lookin' for...

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 0.5

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? (adaptor); Victor Hugo (original author)

Penciller(s): Dick Briefer

Inker(s): Dick Briefer

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: historical

Feature(s): Hunchback of Notre Dame

Character(s): Esmeralda; Jehan; Quasimodo

First Line: Esmeralda, really the daughter of a noble, is...

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Notes: final installment

The Jungle Pirates

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Lin Davies

Penciller(s): Bob Powell

Inker(s): Bob Powell

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: jungle

Feature(s): Ken Hammond and the Leopard Man

Character(s): Ken Hammond

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

The Crimson Rider Unmasked

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Fred Sande]

Penciller(s): Lou Fine

Inker(s): Lou Fine

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: western

Feature(s): Wilton of the West

Character(s): Wilton; The Crimson Rider

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

The Perfect Crime

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Dennis Colebrook]

Penciller(s): Will Eisner ? (layouts); Iger/Eisner shop

Inker(s): Iger/Eisner shop

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: mystery

Feature(s): Spencer Steel

Character(s): Spencer Steele; Miss Hawthorne; Commissioner Balentyne; Mike McCarthy; Belinda Hawthorne; Basil

Synopsis: Miss Hawthorne thinks her father died under suspicious circumstances. Steel finds he was poisoned with an old gypsy compound.

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Reprint Notes: from Wags (Australia) (1936 series)

Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

Notes: Appears to be Eisner layouts or influence. But the "shop" is the "artist" and you can already see why it's so tough to sort them out...Tho it's very early one could see future traces of Zolne, Cardy and even Bryant if one wanted to...

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Will Eisner [as Willis Rensie]

Penciller(s): Will Eisner

Inker(s): Will Eisner

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: historical

Feature(s): The Hawk

Character(s): Hawk, Jeremy; Senorita Mantilla; Black Tonda; Jose Mantilla

First Line: The Isle of Mantilla uncharted even to this...

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 11

Notes: Pages 83-92. Panels enlarged, extended, redrawn and omitted from original.

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Major Thorpe]

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: espionage

Feature(s): ZX-5

Character(s): ZX-5; Swenson; Major Hastings; Magda; Alphonse; Josoix; Baron Karl

First Line: For months an old castle on the border...

Synopsis: ZX-5 investigates an old castle on the border of Chesterland.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes: from Wags (UK) (1937 series)

Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Notes: This is a true shop job again...but this time unlike the Spencer Steel work, it contains some elements seen in the "Powell-Henkel" style [see ZX-5 in issue 6] described earlier. There is a license plate that has R-B on it but other than Bob Bugg no other link came to mind in style.

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ? [as George Thatcher]

Inker(s): ? [as George Thatcher]

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: mystery

Feature(s): Inspector Dayton

Character(s): Inspector Dayton; Carlos Diez; Wini Damian; Russell Nelson

First Line: Inspector Dayton prepares to embark on his long...

Reprinting

Reprint Notes: from Wags (UK)(1937 series)

Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

Notes: A few panels have extraneous numbers in corners and the size of the lettering varies, hinting at paste-up pages of differing sizes.