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Issue: King Comics #40
Publication Date: August 1939
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Issues: #40 of 155 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagDavid McKay Company
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: David McKay Company
On Sale Date: 06/21/1939
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 34 (28 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, 1941, New Series, Vol. 36, No. 4.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S.
Paper Stock: Newsprint
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Format Notes:  
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Popeye; a cat; a pup
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: On the inside-front cover.
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Popeye Alias Poopdeck

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Popeye; Olive Oyl; Poopdeck Pappy; Olive Oyl's mother
First Line: I hates to admit it at me age, but I feels love creepin' through me veins.
Synopsis: By impersonating his son, Poopdeck Pappy conspires to marry Olive Oyl, and is thwarted only when Popeye makes an appearance.
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Reprint Notes: from Thimble Theatre Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1938-09-04 - 1938-09-25
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Four Sunday pages

New storyline

Script was previously credited to Tom Sims, and art to Doc Winner
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, aviation
Character(s): Barney Baxter; Spud Barnes; Blackie Barnes; Captain Wing; "Hap" Walters; Patricia Katchem; Gopher Gus; Charlie Red Dirt Wampumtuk
First Line: Spud, Blackie and Captain Wing rush to the hospital with anxiety in their hearts!
Synopsis: Doctors announce they will have to amputate Barney's arm, but Gopher Gus holds them at bay until his Eskimo friend can administer a restorative potion.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Barney Baxter in the Air Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1938-12-18 - 1939-01-08
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Four Sunday pages
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The Tyrant of Mongo

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, science fiction
Character(s): Flash Gordon; Dale Arden; Dr. Hans Alexis Zarkov; Emperor Ming; General Linchu; Sonja; Chulan
First Line: It was a costly victory -- paid for by the lives of Sudin, Kugor and many others.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Flash Gordon Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1938-08-28 - 1938-09-18
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Four Sunday pages

Alex Raymond was previously credited with script, but Don Moore was co-creator and author from the very beginning of the strip. The 1938-09-04 Sunday (unsigned by Raymond) was pencilled and inked by Raymond's assistant Austin Briggs.

The original newspaper page most often carried a title for the following week's strip.
08-28 = An Empire at Stake!
09-04 = Treachery!
09-11 = The Search
09-18 = Out of Hiding
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, western
Character(s): Sergeant Dave King; Renor; Cecile; Bandru; Deke; Dirk; Jockey Perrone
First Line: Put 'em down, boys! They're a little quick on the draw, Sergeant...
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from King of the Royal Mounted Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1938-08-28 - 1938-09-18
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Four Sunday pages
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The Foreign Legion in Africa

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photos)
Inker(s): ? (photos)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): Stamps
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Winning Ways!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction, sports
Feature(s): Sport Features
Character(s): Henry Armstrong; Ralph Gudahl; Don Meade
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Sport Features Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 193x-xx-xx
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: See genuine horse hair stuffing
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Reprint Notes: from Dun-Dums Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 193x-xx-xx
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.67
Disclose Notes: Five unrelated gag panels
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): John Sappo; Myrtle Sappo; Professor O. G. Wotasnozzle
First Line: I hardly know what flower seeds to plant this year.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Sappo Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1938-xx-xx - 1938-xx-xx
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Two Sunday pages

This is the topper to the Thimble Theatre strip, extensively reshaped to fit a comic book page
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A Tree Full of Pennies

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): News in Pictures - Scott's Scrapbook
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: I've thought a lot about the future...
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Wizard of Way-Up! Part IV

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: drama, humorous
Character(s): Archie Jiggs; Maggie Jiggs; Sir Von Platter
First Line: By Jove - Here's my bathing-suit...
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Bringing Up Father Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1937-xx-xx
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, jungle
Character(s): Ted Towers; Catherine Custer; Ali; Grusha; Chief Mogi-Lan
First Line: Are you sure there was a white man with the Mogis?
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Ted Towers, Animal Master Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1939-08-27 - 1939-09-17
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Four Sunday pages
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Pie Traynor

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction, sports
Feature(s): Sport Features
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Sport Features Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 193x-xx-xx
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Redmen - The Ventures of Black Hawk
Character(s): Black Hawk
First Line: Outsmarted and cornered by the giant whom he had hoped to trap...
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Said Mohammed

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): News in Pictures - Scott's Scrapbook
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Pirates Of The 17th Century

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, science fiction
Character(s): Brick Bradford; Captain Tophet
First Line: Light yon candle, lad -- but have care ye make no false move...
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Brick Bradford Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1938-08-28 - 1938-09-18
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Four Sunday pages
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Mouth organ

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Henry
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Henry Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1938-xx-xx
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: drama, humorous
Character(s): Archie Jiggs; Sir Von Platter
First Line: Well - Now that you're here...
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Bringing Up Father Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1937-xx-xx
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, drama
Character(s): Little Annie Rooney; Mr. Baldy; Stanley James
First Line: No - I'm not a detective or a spy - I'm just looking for information...
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Little Annie Rooney Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1938-xx-xx - 1938-xx-xx
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Four Sunday pages
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John Allen

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction, sports
Feature(s): Sport Features
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Sport Features Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 193x-xx-xx
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: nature, non-fiction
Feature(s): The Pet Post
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
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Household Pest

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Henry
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Henry Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1938-xx-xx
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Paul Mantz; Col. William Tipton; Col. C. deF. Chandler; Howard Rinehart

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: aviation, non-fiction
Character(s): Paul Mantz; Col. William Tipton; Col. C. deF. Chandler; Howard Rinehart
First Line: The famous Hollywood pilot...
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Hall of Fame of the Air Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1937-xx-xx - 1937-xx-xx
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Four Sunday half pages
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[untitled]

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: No ruffles, PLEASE, no bows!
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Lunar Trip

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, fantasy, science fiction, superhero
Character(s): Mandrake; Lothar; Garo; Hyra; Amon; Professor Thursby; Laura Thursby
First Line: At the Moon's core, in a world of fire hotter than a blast furnace!
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Mandrake the Magician Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1938-08-28 - 1938-09-18
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Four Sunday pages

End of storyline
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Sergeant Pat O'Hara; Officer Sam Maloney
First Line: It's a stick-up, sister, an' hand over the dough - quick!
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Radio Patrol Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1938-08-28 - 1938-09-18
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Four Sunday pages
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Andrew Jackson

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): News in Pictures - Scott's Scrapbook
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Henry; Henrietta
First Line: Henry - My daddy is taking me to the seashore...
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Henry Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1938-xx-xx
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Sentinel Louie
First Line: A cyclone
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Sentinel Louie Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1938-xx-xx - 1938-xx-xx
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1.2
Disclose Notes: Three Sunday pages, shared with The Little King, by the same creator
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): The Little King
First Line: - But Your Majesty...
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from The Little King Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1938-xx-xx - 1938-xx-xx
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1.2
Disclose Notes: Three Sunday pages, shared with Sentinel Louie, by the same creator
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Presto! A New Magazine!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset; ?
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: House ad for Magic Comics, with cover repro and original art.

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