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Issue: America's Best Comics #25 Public Domain
Publication Date: February 1948
 
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagPines
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Visual Editions, Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 10 (8 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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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Alex Schomburg [as Xela] (signed)
Alex Schomburg [as Xela] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Miss Masque, Fighting Yank, Black Terror
Miss Masque [Diana Adams]; The Black Terror [Bob Benton]; The Fighting Yank [Bruce Carter III]
Reprinting
FlagGood Girl Art Quarterly #10 published January 1992
as Miss Masque: Past, Present & Future! [Text Article on Interior Page(s)]black-and-white cover
FlagMen of Mystery Spotlight #1 published January 2001
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
 
Miscellaneous
1
The Trail of Captain Blood

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
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?
Subject Matter
Sea Eagle
The Sea Eagle [Sir Ronald Blake] (introduction); Katherine "Kit" Young (introduction); Jamaica (introduction); John Blood (villain, introduction, death); Peg-Leg (villain, introduction, death)
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
10
Next app. in STARTLING COMICS #50
Night Messenger

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Oliver Buchanan
? (spot illo)
? (spot illo)
typeset
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
D 208
The Musical Monkey Murders!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Sheldon Moldoff
Sheldon Moldoff
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Black Terror
The Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Tim [Tim Roland]; Jean; Tongo (a monkey, introduction); Jim (Police Department fingerprint man), introduction); Neilson (villain, introduction); Carl Dawkins (villain, introduction); Wally (villain, introduction)
Reminded by Tim that today was Jean's birthday, Bob decides to stop at a greenhouse and get her some flowers. A chance run-in with some gangsters at the greenhouse ties in with several murders of prominent people who were found dead in their locked homes.
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Miscellaneous
11
Art credits by Mark Heike.
Woodland Adventure

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Ralph Mayo (signed)
Ralph Mayo (signed)
?
typeset
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Text story with Illustration
The Case of the Honest Crooks

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
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?
Subject Matter
superhero
The Fighting Yank
The Fighting Yank [Bruce Carter III]; Seedy (villain, introduction, death)
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
11
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
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?
Subject Matter
anthropomorphic
Sporty
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Miscellaneous
0.67
AC-873
[untitled]

Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
H. L. Herbert (business manager)
typeset
Subject Matter
non-fiction
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Miscellaneous
0.33
Trailblazer

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Chuck Stanley
typeset
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Miscellaneous
1
Cleopatra's Comb

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Bob Oksner ?; Paul Gattuso ?
Bob Oksner ?; Lin Streeter ?; Paul Gattuso ?
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Miss Masque
Miss Masque [Diana Adams]; Aunt Beth (Diana's aunt); Detective Benson (death); Russ Bowman (reporter); un-named museum caretaker (villain)
The caretaker of an Egytian museum commits murder and more in order to put away the infidel dogs who have desecrated the memory of Cleopatra.
Reprinting
FlagMiss Masque Strikes Back! #1 published ?in black & white
FlagGolden-Age Greats #6 published January 1995
as Cleopatra's Comb! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
10
The Who's Who does NOT credit Gattuso with any work at Nedor/Standard. Bill Black credits the art for this story to Bob Oksner with Lin Streeter. The Who's Who credits Oksner art only in 1945 and Streeter in 1946-47.

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