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Issue: Boy Commandos #6
Publication Date: January 1944
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Issues: #6 of 36 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: A Superman DC PublicationView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: World's Best Comics Co.
On Sale Date: 01/25/1944
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 14 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Whitney Ellsworth [as F. W. Ellsworth] (credited editor); Jack Schiff (actual editor)
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from copyright registration.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Format Notes:  
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Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Assets2
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Statement of Ownership
 
 
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby (signed)
Inker(s): Joe Simon (signed)
Colorist(s): Jack Kirby
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, war
Feature(s): Boy Commandos
Character(s): Rip Carter; Brooklyn; Alfy; Jan; Andre
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Public Service Announcement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jack Schiff
Penciller(s): Jerry Robinson
Inker(s): George Roussos
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Alfred
Character(s): Alfred Pennyworth; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]
First Line: Paper, paper everywhere...
Synopsis: Americans are urged to collect waste paper for the war effort.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: inside front cover
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News from Belgium

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby (signed)
Inker(s): Joe Simon (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Howard Ferguson
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, war
Feature(s): Boy Commandos
Character(s): Rip Carter; Alfy; Brooklyn; Jan; Andre; Nanette; Pierre Beauchamp
Synopsis: The commandos deliver a newspaper press to the Belgian underground.
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In Content Item: FlagBoy Commandos #2 published November 1973
as News from Belgium [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 11
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Henry Boltinoff
Penciller(s): Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Inker(s): Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Henry Boltinoff
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, war
Feature(s): Shorty
Character(s): Shorty
First Line: This camouflage stuff is great!
Synopsis: Shorty camouflages a ship's guns.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.67
Disclose Notes: upper two-thirds of page
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Statement of Ownership

Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jack Liebowitz
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: Owners of World's Best Comics Company are given as "H. Donenfeld, J.S. Liebowitz, G.F. Frank, and A.I. Menin."
480 Lexington Ave, NY, NY
Editor: F.W. Ellsworth

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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): George Lichty (signed)
Inker(s): George Lichty (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Wheaties
First Line: No planes approaching, Sarg...
Synopsis: a comic strip ad for General Mills, Inc.'s Wheaties breakfast cereal
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Jackals of Jawnpore!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby (signed)
Inker(s): Joe Simon (signed); Simon and Kirby shop
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, war
Feature(s): Boy Commandos
Character(s): Rip Carter; Alfy; Brooklyn; Andre; Jan; the Rajah of Jawnpore; Lal Kadar; Bayindra Singh
Synopsis: The commandos assist an India rajah in his efforts to control crime in his city.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
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Commando Training with Thom McAn

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): George Roussos (signed)
Inker(s): George Roussos (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens
Feature(s): Thom McAn
Synopsis: a comic strip ad for Thom McAn's Commando shoes
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Action along the Adriatic!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Don C. Cameron ? [as Joe Simon]
Penciller(s): Louis Cazeneuve [as Jack Kirby]
Inker(s): Louis Cazeneuve ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, war
Feature(s): Boy Commandos
Character(s): Rip Carter; Brooklyn; Alfy; Jan; Andre; Capt. Danovic; Josip; Dr. Konrad; Bohuslas
Synopsis: The commandos go on a mission to aid partisans in the Balkans.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
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For Valor

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Ted Udall ? [as Ted Loury]
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: war
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jack Farr
Penciller(s): Jack Farr
Inker(s): Jack Farr
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Jack Farr
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Handy Andy
Character(s): Handy Andy
First Line: Howdy, folks!...Today I'm agonna tell ya exactly how you can take a few old left-over knick-knacks...
Synopsis: Andy explains how to build a windmill.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Destiny Writes the Headlines

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Joe Simon]
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby (signed)
Inker(s): Louis Cazeneuve ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, war
Feature(s): Boy Commandos
Character(s): Rip Carter; Brooklyn; Alfy; Jan; Andre; Bovar; Cecil Merriwether
Synopsis: The commandos encounter a fake fortune teller.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 11
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Amazing Forecaster

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Weather Man
Synopsis: an ad for The Weather Man's Swiss "weather house"
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: inside back cover
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Captain Tootsie and the Secret Weapon!

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Rod Reed (signed)
Penciller(s): C. C. Beck (signed)
Inker(s): C. C. Beck (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Captain Tootsie; Tootsie Roll
Character(s): Rollo; Capt. Tootsie
Synopsis: a comic strip ad for Tootsie Rolls
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: back cover

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