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Issue: Marvel Boy #2
Publication Date: February 1951
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Issues: #2 of 2 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Medalion Publishing Corp.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Stan Lee
Disclose Notes: MARVEL BOY is published by MEDALION PUBLISHING CORP. Office of Publication: 350 5th Avenue, New York, N.Y. Application for second-class matter pending at the post office at New York, N. Y. under the Act of March 3, 1879. Additional entry at Canton, Ohio. Published bi-monthly. Copyright 1950 by MEDALION PUBLISHING CORP., 350 5th Avenue, New Tork, N.Y. Vol. 1 No. 2 FEBRUARY 1951 issue. Price 10c per copy. Subscription rate $1.00 for 12 issues. No similarity between any of the names, characters, persons, and/or institutions appearing in this magazine with those of any living or dead person or institution is intended, and any such similarity which may exist is purely coincidental. Printed in the U.S.A.
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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:  
Disclose Reprinted In7
Disclose Reprinted From1
reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images2
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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The Zero Hour?

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Marvel Boy
Character(s): Marvel Boy [Bob Grayson]
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Boy #41 published March 1951
as The Zero Hour? [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Heroes #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2007
as Marvel Boy #2 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Zero Hour!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Everett ?
Penciller(s): Bill Everett
Inker(s): Bill Everett
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Marvel Boy
Character(s): Marvel Boy [Bob Grayson]; Matthew Grayson; Saramin
Synopsis: The Eastern Union helps the United Nations repel an attack by the Astro-men, only to betray them.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Heroes #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2007
as The Zero Hour! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Job Number: 7849
Disclose Notes: An announcement in the upper margin of each page explains that Marvel Boy will be retitled "Astonishing" beginning with the next issue.
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Blast of Doom!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Everett ?
Penciller(s): Bill Everett
Inker(s): Bill Everett
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Marvel Boy
Character(s): Marvel Boy [Bob Grayson]; Pete Mason; Starr Rider
Synopsis: Soviet agents sabotage Marvel Boy's friends' mine.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Heroes #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2007
as Blast of Doom! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: 7851
Disclose Notes: An announcement in the upper margin of each page explains that Marvel Boy will be retitled "Astonishing" beginning with the next issue. Story takes place after the third Marvel Boy story in this issue.
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Planetary Error

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bill La Cava ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Paular Nine; Miss Em
Synopsis: In the future, a young boy is sent on a history assignment to the past where he mistakenly destroys the earth.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Heroes #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2007
as Planetary Error [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: 7838
Disclose Notes: Notes in upper margin of each page indicate in that Marvel Boy will be retitled "Astonishing" beginning with the next issue.
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The Clay Pipe

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Heroes #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2007
as The Clay Pipe [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagSuspense #2 published February 1950
was The Clay Pipe [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: 6474
Disclose Notes: Previous indexer missed the illustration and credits on this text story.
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Circus Terror

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Everett ?
Penciller(s): Bill Everett
Inker(s): Bill Everett
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Bill Everett
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Marvel Boy
Character(s): Marvel Boy [Bob Grayson]; Starr Ryder; Pete Mason; Marvo
Synopsis: The owner of a circus attempts insurance fraud.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Heroes #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2007
as Circus Terror [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: 7850
Disclose Notes: Story is out of order in that Marvel Boy meets Starr Ryder for the first time in this story but she is already well known to him in the 2nd story ("Blast of Doom!") in this issue. An announcement in the upper margin of each page explains that Marvel Boy will be retitled "Astonishing" beginning with the next issue. Bob Grayson is an insurance investigator in this story.

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