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Issue: Adventures of the Fly #28
Publication Date: October 1963
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Issues: #28 of 25 Issues (31 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagArchie Publications, Inc.
Brand: Archie Adventure SeriesView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Radio Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/06/1963
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 17 (4 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: Newsprint
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Red Shark [Scar Morrea]
First Line: Hmm... The Red Shark's moved in for the kill! This is one torpedo that will miss its mark!!
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First Line: Do you need extra money?
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Advertisement for the Cheerful Card Company Christmas Card sales kit.
Inside front cover.
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The Fly Versus the Red Shark?

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Red Shark
First Line: Just a terrible, no-hold-barred power struggle exists between freedom-loving nations and the iron curtain dictatorships, so a showdown between two men who symbolize the best and the worst in the world must occur!
Synopsis: After stopping some land swindlers, Tommy Troy decides to take a vacation in Florida. But he becomes aware of a Cuban terrorist named the Red Shark who is bombing Cuban refugee boats raiding the coast of Cuba.
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In Content Item: FlagSunny Sun #40 published May 1983
as Le requin rouge [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 8
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Billy Wins With Bendix

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First Line: Billy never loses a race since he got his new bike!
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Disclose Notes: Advertisement for the Bendix Automatic Bicycle from the Bendix Corporation.
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First Line: America's most exciting war game
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Disclose Notes: Advertisement for the Task Force war game from Helen of Toy.
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First Line: Nuclear naval battle game!!
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Disclose Notes: Advertisement for the Convoy Terror war game from Helen of Toy.
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The Red Shark's Fantastic Fortress!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Red Shark [Scar Morrea]
First Line: Look around you, Fly!! You've been zeroed in by missiles... 'Tuned to your frequency,' shall I say?
Synopsis: After rescuing one of the Red Shark's men, the Fly learns of the Shark's island fortress. He then travels to the fortress to take down the high seas terrorist.
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In Content Item: FlagSunny Sun #40 published May 1983
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First Line: Archie says: Nylon means strength
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Disclose Notes: Advertisement for U.S. Royal Bike Tires, promoting their three-pile nylon tires.
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The 'Popsicle Kids' Play it Safe

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First Line: Stop... You've got to walk your bikes here!
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Disclose Notes: Advertisement for the Popsicle Safety Club.
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Disclose Notes: Letters from Sammy Schaal, David Twist, Lee Morris, David Tilley, Daryll Patterson, and Ron James.
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The Black Hood Teaches Karate

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Genres: martial arts, superhero
First Line: The expert knows various hand forms to lay low an attacker!
Synopsis: Various karate hand moves are demonstrated by the Black Hood.
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First Line: Given! Premiums or cash given!
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Disclose Notes: Advertisement for the Wilson Chemical White Cloverine Brand Salve sales kit.
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First Line: 100 Toy Soldiers $1.95
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Disclose Notes: Advertisement for miniature plastic toy soldiers.
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The Mystery of the Fly Museum

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Genres: superhero
First Line: It was inevitable that the day would come when the citizens of Capital City would honor their favorite hero by erecting a Fly Museum!
Synopsis: After the Fly gives copies of his weapons to a museum dedicated to his exploits, a gang of crooks steal the weapons to use for crime.
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In Content Item: FlagSunny Sun #40 published May 1983
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Pages: 5
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First Line: Boys, girls, men, women
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Disclose Notes: Advertisement for the Wallace Brown Christmas card sales kit.
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Feature(s): Archie Comics
First Line: Archie says - get lucky!
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Disclose Notes: Subscription advertisement for various Archie Comics publications.
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First Line: Give me just one evening and I'll teach you to hypnotize easily!
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Disclose Notes: Advertisement for a hypnotism course from Palmer-Jones Publishing.
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