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Issue: National Comics #57 Public Domain
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Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
Indicia Publisher: Comic Magazines
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Pages: 60
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 11 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): George Brenner
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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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The Barker Meets the Witch Doctor

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Al Bryant
Al Bryant
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?
Subject Matter
adventure, humorous
Barker
The Barker [Carnie Callahan]
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Miscellaneous
1
Sorceror Si, the Mountain Witch Doctor

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Joe Millard
Klaus Nordling
Klaus Nordling
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?
Subject Matter
adventure, humorous
Barker
The Barker [Carnie Callahan]; Colonel Land (Mammoth Circus owner); Tiny; Lena; Major Midge; Sorceror Si (introduction); Lou Link (villain, introduction); Moss the Magician (villain, introduction)
A phony magician poses as the hillbilly Sorcerer Si of Yukville for the purposes of ripping off the circus.
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Miscellaneous
11
Writer formerly credited as "Klaus Nordling".
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Bernard Dibble
Bernard Dibble
Bernard Dibble
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?
Subject Matter
humorous
Salty Waters
Salty Waters; Pierre the Pooch
Doggone it, I've been gypped again!
Salty is angry that his recently-purchased parrot won't talk. A human-sized talking dog (actually a man in a costume) tells him that not all animals can talk or want to talk.
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Miscellaneous
1
The Greeks Had a Word For It

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Al McWilliams
Al McWilliams
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?
Subject Matter
mystery
Steve Wood
Steve Wood; Cemitos (first appearance; villain; death); the Big Boy (first appearance; villain); Punchy (first appearance; villain); Marya (first appearance)
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Miscellaneous
6
Fish Story

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jack Cole
Jack Cole
Jack Cole
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?
Subject Matter
humorous
Windy Breeze
Windy Breeze
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Miscellaneous
1
Compliments of the Jackal

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Alex Kotzky ?
Alex Kotzky ?
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?
Subject Matter
mystery
Sally O'Neil Policewoman
Sally O'Neil; Ralph Knox (first appearance; death); Jerry Ennis (first appearance); The Jackal [Ted Kimble] (villain)
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Miscellaneous
8
Introducing Granny Gumshoe

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Gill Fox ?
Gill Fox ?
Gill Fox ?
?
?
Subject Matter
mystery
Granny Gumshoe
Granny Gumshoe (first appearance); Lippy Lu (first appearance); Hiram Echo (first appearance; death); Splinter (first appearance; villain; death; a living ventriloquist's dummy)
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Miscellaneous
7
Roberta's New Boyfriend

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Bernard Dibble
Bernard Dibble
Bernard Dibble
?
?
Subject Matter
childrens, humorous
Lassie
Lassie; Laddie; Roberta; Roger; Pynwood Van Brumph
The kids are feeling pretty low!
Roberta and Roger break up, and she starts dating the stuffed-shirt Pynwood. Lassie tries to convince Roberta that Pynwood thinks he's a cat. Pynwood gives up and Roberta gets back together with Roger.
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Miscellaneous
7
Tailor's Gold

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
typeset
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Miscellaneous
2
The Two Mr. Coleses

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Andre LeBlanc
Andre LeBlanc
Andre LeBlanc
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?
Subject Matter
adventure, childrens, humorous
Intellectual Amos
Intellectual Amos; Coles and Coles (first appearance; villains; twin brothers); Jasper Spears (first appearance; death)
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Miscellaneous
6
Death to the Loser

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Bill Quackenbush
Bill Quackenbush
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?
Subject Matter
superhero
Quicksilver
Quicksilver [Max]; Tekla (first appearance; villain; death); Morvey (first appearance; villain)
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Miscellaneous
7

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