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Issue: The Flame #1 Public Domain
Publication Date: January 1940
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Issues: #1 of 8 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagFox
Brand: A Fox Feature Comic FPView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Fox Publications, Inc.
On Sale Date: 06/05/1940
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 8 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Victor Fox
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1940, New Series, Vol. 35, No. 2.
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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
Format Notes:  
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Lou Fine
Inker(s): Lou Fine
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Flame
Character(s): The Flame [Gary Preston]
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagAction! Mystery! Thrills! Comic Book Covers of the Golden Age: 1933-45 #[nn] published December 2011
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Origin of the Flame, Retold

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Will Eisner ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Flame
Character(s): The Flame [Gary Preston] (origin retold); Mr. King (introduction); Ida King (introduction); Ivan (villain, introduction, death); Ivan's gang (villains, introduction for all, all die)
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In Issue: FlagL'âge merveilleux des Comics #1 published ?
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 14
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Invasion of the Kikoos

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Will Eisner [as Basil Berold] (signed)
Penciller(s): Lou Fine
Inker(s): Lou Fine
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Flame
Character(s): The Flame [Gary Preston]; un-named girl agent; The Kikoos (villains, some die); Monk (villain)
Synopsis: The Flame has to deal with the wanton killing and robberies staged by a group of weird, spectral creatures called the Kikoo, which came from an island where the government leaders hid them out because of their inferior minds. Unfortunately, led by an evil influence, they are capable of extreme violence, as the Flame discovers.
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From Content Item: FlagWonderworld Comics #7 published November 1939
was Invasion of the Kikoos [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
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The Arson Ring of Mr. Crass

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Will Eisner
Penciller(s): Lou Fine
Inker(s): Lou Fine
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Flame
Character(s): The Flame [Gary Preston]; Bonnie Lane (introduction); J. B. Crass (villain, introduction, death)
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagWonderworld Comics #6 published October 1939
was The Arson Ring of Mr. Crass [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
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The Flame

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Nathaniel Nitkin [as N. N. Nathaniel] (credited)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Flame
Character(s): The Flame [Gary Preston]
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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The Construction Racketeers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Will Eisner
Penciller(s): Lou Fine
Inker(s): Lou Fine
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Flame
Character(s): The Flame [Gary Preston]; Radler (villain, death); Stone (villain, death)
Synopsis: Stymied by corrupt politicians and lax building materials, the authorities seem helpless to stop the collapse of people's homes and wanton death, but the Flame goes directly after the crooked contractors themselves.
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From Content Item: FlagWonderworld Comics #5 published September 1939
was The Construction Crooks [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
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The Atomic Generator

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Will Eisner
Penciller(s): Lee Harris (signed)
Inker(s): Lee Harris (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Flame
Character(s): The Flame [Gary Preston]; Dr. Harvey (scientist, inventor); Jan Harvey (the doctor's daughter); Lizzie (Harvey's maid); Von Kraupt (villain, introduction); Jarud Kane (villain, Harvey's assistant, introduction)
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagWonderworld Comics #8 published December 1939
was The Atomic Generator [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: Artist verified by information supplied in Alter Ego #125, which reproduces the splash (signed by Harris) and two other pages.
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Raiders of the Deep

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Will Eisner [as Basil Berold] (signed)
Penciller(s): Lou Fine
Inker(s): Lou Fine
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Flame
Character(s): The Flame [Gary Preston]; General Doyoff (villain, introduction); the Nazis (villains)
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagWonderworld Comics #9 published January 1940
was Raiders of the Deep [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 9

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