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Issue: Samson #1
Publication Date: January 1940
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Issues: #1 of 6 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagFox
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Fox Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/10/1940
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.15 CAD
$0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 8 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
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. 3.
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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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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Samson
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Box on cover announces "Free Giant Bottle of Kooba Drink See Inside Cover". This refers to a fictitious cola drink promoted in Fox Comics in an attempt to create demand for its production.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Samson [Sam ?] (origin); David (origin); Samson's mother (intro); The Mask (intro, dies); Dr. Dag (intro, dies); Ko (intro, dies)
First Line: Out of the mists of history comes the mighty Samson...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 14
Disclose Notes: Script credit from Bails' Who's Who.

This story originally prepared as a proposed daily newspaper strip.
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The Coming of Samson

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Inker(s): ? (shop)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Samson (intro); Thorga (villain, intro)
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From Content Item: FlagFantastic Comics #1 published December 1939
was The Coming of Samson [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): Wing Turner
Character(s): Wing Turner
First Line: Wing is in Europe when the war breaks...
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From Content Item: FlagMystery Men Comics #6 published January 1940
was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 3
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Inker(s): ? (shop)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Samson; Dragor (villain, intro); Ratonians (villains, intro)
First Line: Dragor has unleashed his dogs of war at the world
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From Content Item: FlagFantastic Comics #2 published January 1940
was The Attack of Dragor [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
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Samson and the Murder Ring

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Edward Young]
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Samson
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Pages: 2
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Samson; VILLAIN: J. B. Reegan (intro)
First Line: A super magnetic plance that is capable of lifting huge ocean liners threatens the safety of the seas..
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From Content Item: FlagFantastic Comics #3 published February 1940
was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): K-51 Spies at War
First Line: Despite heroic efforts to prevent war, Poland is invaded and a second world war begins.
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From Content Item: FlagWonderworld Comics #10 published February 1940
was Mission To Warsaw [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 4

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