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Issue: King Comics #55
Publication Date: November 1940
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Issues: #55 of 155 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagDavid McKay Company
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: David McKay Company
On Sale Date: 09/20/1940
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, 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: 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
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
First Line: I miss the swimming..
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, western
Character(s): The Lone Ranger; Tonto; Sheriff Grey; Barton
First Line: The Lone Ranger, hoping to find...
Synopsis: Barton captures the sheriff's daughter.
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Reprint Notes: from The Lone Ranger Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1939-05-21 - 1939-06-11
Miscellaneous
Pages: 3.5
Disclose Notes: Four Sunday pages, with the first page reduced to half page to accommodate an ad.

The original newspaper page most often carried a title for the following week's strip.
05-21 = [not known]
05-28 = [not known]
06-04 = Ambushed
06-11 = The Double-Cross
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Popeye; J. Wellington Wimpy; Swee'pea; Olive Oyl
First Line: Be a good boy an' take care of...
Synopsis: Popeye and Wimpy go duck hunting.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Thimble Theatre Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1939-10-29 - 1939-11-19
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Four Sunday pages
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: What did the electric razor say?
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Reprint Notes: from Dun-Dums Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 193x-xx-xx
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.67
Disclose Notes: Feature is a vertical 2/3 of the page. The balance of the page is a house ad for The Phantom and Lone Ranger Feature Books.
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Ice Kingdom 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; Queen Fria; Prince Ronal
First Line: Flash and his friends seek escape...
Synopsis: Flash and his friends break free from an ice cavern.
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Reprint Notes: from Flash Gordon Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1939-10-22 - 1939-11-12
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 original newspaper page most often carried a title for the following week's strip.
10-22 = The Cavern's Secret
10-29 = Underground River
11-05 = The Glacier Monster Returns
11-12 = An Accident
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): John Sappo; Professor O. G. Wotasnozzle
First Line: If you had used "dream reverser gas"...
Synopsis: Wotasnozzle dreams he and Sappo are in jail.
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Reprint Notes: from Sappo Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 193x-xx-xx - 193x-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

Script and art were previously credited to E. C. Segar
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Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): Stamps
First Line: Franklin D. Roosevelt, the first and only...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Feature is the middle of two half pages, with stamps ads on both sides.
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The Ball Carrier Gets the Spotlight

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction, sports
Feature(s): Sports Features
First Line: The touch-down makers...
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Sergeant Dave King: Kid Blake; Dorothy; Miss Drurie
First Line: After King and Kid patch up...
Synopsis: King attempts to arrest Miss Drurie and she shoots King.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from King of the Royal Mounted Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1939-10-22 - 1939-11-12
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Four Sunday pages

Information that Zane Grey's son Romer wrote some King of the Royal Mounted stories is from Don Markstein, but specific stories are not listed. He was a prolific author in his own right, and has certainly been credited with writing the Big Little Books featuring the character. In addition, Gaylord Du Bois once claimed in an interview, "In 1939 I worked as a script writer on King of the Royal Mounted, when Jim Gary was doing the art work".(Comics Interview #17 (November 1984))
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Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Sis Sez
Character(s): Mister Paul
First Line: Beauty shops are the tops...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Wizard of Way Up and King Ripitik Meet Much-Too-Much

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Ripitik; Woff
First Line: Synopsis: King Ripitik and his wizard...
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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
First Line: Now - fer me coat...
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Bringing Up Father Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 193x-xx-xx
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): News in Pictures
First Line: Not all geisha are girls...
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, aviation
Character(s): Barney Baxter; Gopher Gus; Joe Key; Patricia Katchem: Mr. Ullman
First Line: We got th' drop on you...
Synopsis: Prospectors help Barney and Gus escape from Joe Key.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Barney Baxter in the Air Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1940-01-28 - 1940-02-18
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Four Sunday pages
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, western
Feature(s): Redmen - The Ventures of Black Hawk
Character(s): Black Hawk
First Line: Attacked by two masked medicine-men...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): News in Pictures
Character(s): Robert E. Friers; Tom Sharkey
First Line: Glamor girls of the 16th century...
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Mummy

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, science fiction
Character(s): Brick Bradford; Marigold
First Line: For years the savage Kalikas...
Synopsis: The Kilinka warriors attack the Kipchaks.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Brick Bradford Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1939-10-22 - 1939-11-12
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Four Sunday pages

End of storyline
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Henry
First Line: Take some o' this...
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Henry Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 193x-xx-xx
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: drama, humorous
Character(s): Maggie Jiggs; Archie Jiggs; Mrs. Read
First Line: Mrs. Jiggs - I just dropped in...
Synopsis: Jiggs searches for a book that Maggie loaned.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Bringing Up Father Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 193x-xx-xx
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, drama
Character(s): Little Annie Rooney; Zero; Beauty; Mr. Black
First Line: Honest, Beauty, I don't think...
Synopsis: Annie finds diamonds dropped by a frightened bandit.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Little Annie Rooney Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1939-11-05 - 1939-11-26
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Four Sunday pages
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Grid Heroes

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction, sports
Feature(s): Sports Features
Character(s): Paul Christman; Tom Harmon
First Line: Paul Christman Missouri's colorful back...
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Pages: 1
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Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? [as Harte]
Inker(s): ? [as Harte]
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): Solve a Jigglette
First Line: Fill in the section...
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Feature is the top half of a page.
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Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Arty]
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: nature, non-fiction
Feature(s): The Pet Post
First Line: Dear Arty: I am sending...
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Photo of Skippy, pet dog, as a winner of a photo contest.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Henry
Synopsis: Henry thinks he's looking in a mirror and sees himself as black. The "mirror" is just a frame.
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Reprint Notes: from Henry Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 193x-xx-xx
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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"Pancho" Sarabia; Henry W. Walden; Sir Joh Alcock; Maj. "Larry" Brower

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: aviation, non-fiction
Character(s): "Pancho" Sarabia; Henry W. Walden; Sir Joh Alcock; Maj. "Larry" Brower
First Line: The Lindbergh of Mexico...
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Reprint Notes: from Hall of Fame of the Air Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 193x-xx-xx - 193x-xx-xx
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Four Sunday half pages
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Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Sis Sez
First Line: A farmer's dance!
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Ghost Bear of Glass Mountain

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, fantasy
Character(s): Mandrake; Lothar; Marsha Dale; Gratz; Bruk
First Line: In Glass Inn, on Glass Mountain...
Synopsis: Gratz holds Marsha prisoner and attempts to kill Mandrake.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Mandrake the Magician Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1939-10-22 - 1939-11-12
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Four Sunday pages
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The Return of the Hare

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, mystery
Character(s): Sergeant Pat O'Hara; Inspector Maggin; The Hare
First Line: Masquerading as the famous "Hare,"...
Synopsis: A thief impersonates "The Hare" to commit robberies and avoid suspicion.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Radio Patrol Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1939-10-22 - 1939-11-12
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Four Sunday pages
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): News in Pictures
First Line: The "speed era" began on the ice!
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Sentinel Louie
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Sentinel Louie Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 193x-xx-xx - 193x-xx-xx
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Four Sunday pages, shared with The Little King, by the same creator
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): The Little King
First Line: Your bath is ready...
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from The Little King Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 193x-xx-xx - 193x-xx-xx
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Four Sunday pages, shared with Sentinel Louie, by the same creator
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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) 193x-xx-xx
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
First Line: Sure! Anybody kin draw...
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad is for "Popeye's How to Draw Cartoons" by Joe Musial

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