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Issue: Shadow Comics #7 [7]
Publication Date: November 1940
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Issues: #7 [7] of 101 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagStreet and Smith
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Street & Smith Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/30/1940
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 15 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Interior pages are numbered 1-64.

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. 4.
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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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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): The Shadow [Lamont Cranston]; The Hooded Wasp; Wasplet
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Editor's Page

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover. Table of Contents with short note from the editor promoting new features.
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The Creeping Death

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): The Shadow [Lamont Cranston]; Joe Cardona; Margo Lane; Stanley (cameo); Clifford Forster; Guthrie; Armagnac; Vignetti (villain); Prof. Partridge (villain)
Synopsis: The Shadow becomes involved in a professor's plot to make imitation gold and coin counterfeit foreign currency.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagO Lobinho (2ª Série) #16 published August 1941
as O "Sombra" e a Morte que Sobe [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: The story title comes from the cover.

This story is adapted from the pulp story "The Creeping Death" that appeared in The Shadow Magazine (Street and Smith, 1942 series) v4#4 (22) (January 15, 1933) by Walter Gibson [as Maxwell Gibson].
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Hooded Wasp [Bob] (introduction, origin); The Wasplet [Jim Martin] (introduction, origin); Razil (villain, secret society chief, introduction); secret society members (villains, introduction for all)
First Line: Like a missile hurled by the hand of a war god...
Synopsis: Bob, a former explorer, takes teen Jim Martin with him to excavate an Egyptian tomb in search of a magic scarab. Once obtained, Bob puts on a costume and becomes known as The Hooded Wasp, Martin becomes the Wasplet, and they fight evil around the world, including against his arch-enemy Razil, chief of a secret society that wants the scarab for himself.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: The last panel is a contest to provide a name for Jim Martin's costumed alter ego, who is not named in this story. Prizes of a pocket knife are to be given for the 50 best names.

The Hooded Wasp has no super-powers.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Cappy Can
Character(s): Cappy Can; Susie "Q"; King Leo; Sir Gay
First Line: What a sucker he'd be for my left hook.
Synopsis: Cappy gets the aid of Sir Gay, the Magician, in training for a boxing match with King Leo.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: First part of a continued story.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Nick Carter; Harrison Hilde; Jack Gleason [aka Slippery Jack] (villain); Dick Gray [aka Capt. Gray] (villain); Ivan Novack (villain)
First Line: Alias Slippery Jack--
Synopsis: Nick Carter, chief of the counter-espionage department, must recover plans for a powerful new explosive that were stolen by a ring of three spies.
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Pages: 5
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Bound to Win

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Harry Raymond; James Turner; Squire Turner; Evelyn Brown
Synopsis: When his father is killed by a train while walking home from work, Harry Raymond must find a way to raise money to pay the mortgage due on his mother's house. Harry invents a new explosive, but foreign agents bribe the mortgage holder to delay Harry so they can steal the formula.
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Pages: 8
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Frank Reed's "Marvel"

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Frank Reed
Character(s): Frank Reed; Barney
First Line: The world has come to recognize young Reed as one of the greatest inventors of all time!
Synopsis: Frank and Barney try to recover stolen radium that was dumped into a muddy river. Frank invents a submarine called the "Marvel," which is loaded with various weapons.
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In Content Item: FlagO Lobinho (2ª Série) #16 published August 1941
as Frank Maravilha, Rei dos Inventores [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Iron Munro; Spencer Carlisle; Anto Raul
First Line: Iron Munro, Jupiter-born scientist, and his friend Spencer Carlyle, strike an asteroid in space...
Synopsis: In the far future, Iron Munro and the Magyan space fleet use two moons of Magya as weapons to destroy the devil-planet Teef-El.
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Reprint Notes: in The Shadow (Sanctum Books, 2006 series) #105 (March 2016) [In black and white.]
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Into the Heart of Thunder Island!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Doc Savage; Ajax
Character(s): Doc Savage; Ajax
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Promotional house advertisement for Doc Savage Comics (Street and Smith, 1940 series) #v1#2 (2) (October 1940), with previews of the Doc Savage and Ajax the Sun Man stories.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Alexander Dumas]
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, historical
Character(s): D'Artagnan; Athos; Porthos; Aramis; Milady (villain)
First Line: Ho! Ho! Ho! D'artagnan, Paris never saw a scarecrow to equal this!
Synopsis: D'Artagnan, not yet a Musketeer, accompanies the Musketeers to the siege of La Rochelle. He finds himself under fire from assassins hired by Milady.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Continued from last issue. Continues in the next issue. Feature is bylined "by Alexander Dumas."
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The Hole Card

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Malcolm Rainsford (credited)
Penciller(s): Paul Orban [as Orban] (signed)
Inker(s): Paul Orban [as Orban] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Steve Carrain; Ed Thompson
Synopsis: Outlaw Ed Thompson gets in a gunfight when Ed Thompson doesn't back down during a card game.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: An illustrated text story.
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What's the Whole World Talking About?

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, aviation
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Promotional house advertisement for Bill Barnes Comics (Street and Smith, 1940 series) #v1#1 (1940). Reproduces a line-drawn version of the painted cover for that issue.
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The True Life Story of Our Greatest Baseball Player

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: biography, sports
Character(s): Lou Gehrig (photograph)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.

A promotional house advertisement for Street & Smith's Sport Comics (Street and Smith, 1940 series) #1 ([October] 1940), which features a story on the life of baseball player Lou Gehrig.

A line-art black and white version of that issue's cover is depicted.
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Be Your Own Expert!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: sports
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

A promotional house advertisement for the magazine Street and Smith's Football Year Book (Street and Smith, 1940 series), on sale August 30 [1940].

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