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Issue: The Fly [Adventures of the Fly] #1
Publication Date: August 1959
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Issues: #1 of 6 Issues (7 Printings)
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagArchie Publications, Inc.
Brand: Archie Adventure SeriesView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Radio Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 05/20/1959
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 8 (6 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: On-sale date from 1959 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing
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Cover, Front
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The Fly Battles "Spider Spry"!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
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In Content Item: FlagStrange #6 bis published January 2008
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Kirby pencils and Simon inks per Nick Caputo. The previous indexer credited Simon and Kirby on both pencils and inks.

The logo design credit from Todd Klein via his Facebook posting, Comics Logos A #8: ADVENTURES OF THE FLY, on 8 January 2021.
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The Strange New World of the Fly

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Tommy Troy [The Fly]
Synopsis: Orphan Tommy Troy overhears crooks and is sent to a haunted house of "wizards". Tommy finds a fly ring that opens a dimensional portal. Out steps Turan of the Fly People, a super-advanced race that devolved into flies, waiting for a person to battle crime and greed. Tommy is bequeathed powers of walking on walls, super-strength, seeing in all directions, and cunning to escape any traps. He rubs the ring and becomes a costumed man: The Fly! Now to serve justice!.. "The Fly Strikes" He wraps the orphan manager and crooks for the cops, reverts to Tommy Troy, and Turan says farewell.
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In Issue: FlagArchie... Archie Andrews, Where Are You? Comics Digest Magazine #8 published November 1978
In Content Item: FlagBlue Ribbon Comics #1 published November 1983
as The Strange New World of the Fly [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Origin.

Kirby pencils per Harry Mendryk's Simon and Kirby blog: http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/simonandkirby/archives/2580.
The previous indexer credited Simon as co-penciller.

Simon script and inks per reprint in Blue Ribbon Comics (Archie, 1983 Series) #1
The previous indexer credited Kirby as co-writer and co-inker.

The Fly borrows tropes from Shazam! but ends up an orphan boy with super-insect powers. Since this was 1959 and Jack Kirby would soon work for Marvel, there are ongoing arguments about whether The Fly inspired Spider-Man.
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The Fly Discovers His Buzz Gun

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Tommy Troy [The Fly]; Dolly
Synopsis: In the haunted house, the wizard sends Tommy for groceries. He's knocked down by fleeing crooks. He meets Dolly, a girl nearby. He rubs his ring, becomes The Fly, and tests his buzz gun. It fires stingers that put crooks to sleep. The Fly reverts to Tommy and returns to the haunted house, where he's spanked.
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In Content Item: FlagBlue Ribbon Comics #1 published November 1983
as The Fly Discovers His Buzz-Gun [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Kirby pencils per Harry Medryk's Simon and Kirby blog: http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/simonandkirby/archives/2580.
The previous indexer credited Simon as co-penciler and Kirby as co-inker.

Simon script and inks per reprint in Blue Ribbon Comics (Archie, 1983 Series) #1
The previous indexer credited Kirby as co-writer.
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Come into My Parlor

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Fly; Spider Spry (first appearance)
Synopsis: Spider Spry makes nets and lassos, and swings like a spider. He sends a scuba crook to rob jewels from a freighter. Orphan Tommy Troy had read of "Waterfront Thefts". The Fly investigates, but a bright flash "upset his equilibrium" (his weakness). He falls in the water and hitches a boat ride. He battles Spider Spry in his water tower hideout, shooting his buzz gun, escaping a "web" (net). He leaves Spider hanging for the police and returns him to chop wood.
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In Content Item: FlagBlue Ribbon Comics #1 published November 1983
as Come into My Parlor [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagStrange #6 bis published January 2008
as Viens dans ma maison [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Best of Simon and Kirby #[nn] published May 2009
as Come Into My Parlor [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Kirby pencils per Harry Medryk's Simon and Kirby blog: http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/simonandkirby/archives/2580
The indexer credited Simon as co-penciler.

Simon script and inks per reprint in Blue Ribbon Comics (Archie, 1983 Series) #1
The previous indexer credited Kirby as co-writer and co-inker.
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Sign of the Triangle

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Synopsis: During the Korean War or the Second World War...a GI lost in a snowfield follows red arrows, worrying about mines. Doggedly he braves the field, only to learn the arrows point back to barracks!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Simon art per Harry Mendryk's Simon and Kirby blog:
http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/simonandkirby/archives/2580
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The "Gentle" Art of Jiu Jitsu

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: martial arts
Character(s): Bill Bell
Synopsis: Bill Bell of The Shield's Young Americans Club demonstrates judo holds and take-downs.
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Pages: 1
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The Search

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Shield
Character(s): The Fly; Private Strong [The Shield]
Synopsis: A spy seeks The Shield, asking Private Strong (The Shield). He shoots and The Shield brings him down. He's visited by The Fly, "I don't want him in trouble in my magazine!"
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: A short story introducing to the readers Private Strong and includes a house advertisement for the first issue.
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Magic Eye

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Tommy Troy [The Fly]; Dolly
Synopsis: Tommy and Dolly stop by an electronics shop just as a robot runs amok. The Fly swoops after the remote-control robot and punches it flat. Except the "scientist" then goes berserk with super strength and a steel jaw. Using his head, The Fly grabs the remote control. The "robot" was the scientist temporarily dazed, "I'm getting confused myself!"
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In Issue: FlagAtemi #7 published ?
In Content Item: FlagBlue Ribbon Comics #10 [Direct] published July 1984
as Magic Eye [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4

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