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Issue: Leading Comics #17
Publication Date: December 1945
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Issues: #17 of 44 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: A Superman DC PublicationView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: World's Best Comics Co.
On Sale Date: 11/27/1945
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 20 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from copyright registration. An on-sale date of November 30 was listed in a promotional house advertisement appearing in Sensation Comics (DC, 1942 series) #49 (January 1946).
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Assets2
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Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Nero Fox
Character(s): Nero Fox; Barkus
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E Is for Elephant

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Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.

A listing of all current DC comics titles and includes the cover art from Real Fact Comics (DC, 1946 series) #1.
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A Hot Platter of Voom Voom!

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Nero Fox
Character(s): Nero Fox; Barkus
Synopsis: Nero's saxophone playing nearly causes a war between Rome and Egypt.
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Pages: 8
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Speedy Wheeler Saves the Day and Wins a Bike

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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Speedy Wheeler; Arnold, Schwinn & Co.
Character(s): Speedy Wheeler
Synopsis: Speedy is told by his Dad that he can't afford to buy him a bike, but when his father leaves a briefcase with important papers in it at home, Speedy borrows a friend's bike and delivers them to his Dad....and receives a new bike in gratitude.
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Genres: sports
Feature(s): Wheaties
First Line: Well, if you must know, I didn't eat my Wheaties!
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Bursting Balloons!

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Pelican Pete
Character(s): Pelican Pete
Synopsis: Pelican Pete saves a school of balloon fish from a mean swordfish.
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First Line: Speeding Your way.. Soon..Lionel's Postwar Trains!
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Mystery Island!

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Salty the Sailor
Character(s): Salty the Sailor
Synopsis: Salty has to figure out why four previous ships sailed to Mystery Island and never returned.
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Tee for Two

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Genres: anthropomorphic
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Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Disclose Notes: Statement of October 1, 1945
Owner: World's Best Comics Co., H. Donenfeld, J.S. Liebowitz, G.F. Frank, all at 480 Lexington Avenue, New York 17, N.Y., and A.I. Menin, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York 18, N.Y.
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Backwoods Brawn!

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Hugo Hornspred
Character(s): Hugo Hornspred; Farmer Greenstalk; Mrs. Greenstalk; Maw Hornspred; Paw Hornspred
Synopsis: Hugo gets a job helping out at a farm, but his great strength causes more harm than good.
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Fish Story

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Genres: anthropomorphic
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Feature(s): Chemcraft
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A Short Fable on Why Raccoons Wear Masks

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Patrick Parrot's Unnatural History
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Miller alias from Jerry Bails' Who's Who of American Comic Books
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The Disappearing Domicile!

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Spylot Bones
Character(s): Spylot Bones; Dr. Spotsem; Sir Reggie Rownded
Synopsis: Spylot must solve the mystery of a missing nobleman's house.
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Don Hutson

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The Three Tin Suits!

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Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): King Oscar's Court
Character(s): King Oscar; Sir Scramselot; Sir Squayrehed; Queen Jennifer; King Kunning; Swirlin the Magician
Synopsis: King Oscar and his knights face the wily King Kunning, who tries to trick them into wearing defective suits of armor so that they can be defeated by his Knights of the Pool Table.
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How Thom McAn Captured the Fire-Bug

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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Thom McAn
Synopsis: Thom McAn stops a pyromaniac with the help of his flying Bazooka Shoes.
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Disclose Notes: A comic-form advertisement for Thom McAn shoes.
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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Captain Tootsie and the Return of Dr. Narsty

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Dr. Narsty; Cadwallader Van Tilden; Mys. Van Tilden
Synopsis: Dr. Narsty, disguised as Pierre of Paris, plans to steal the Van Tilden jewels until Captain Tootsie intervenes.
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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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