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Issue: Master Comics #24 Public Domain
Publication Date: March 1942
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Issues: #24 of 133 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagFawcett
Brand: A Fawcett Publication [Triangle]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Fawcett Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 02/06/1942
Volume: 4
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 9 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): France Herron
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1942, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 1.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: 10.5" x 14" (#1-6); standard Golden Age U.S. (#7-133)
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Death by Radio

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Mr. Macabre [Filpot] (shadow)
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In Issue: FlagThe Shazam! Family Archives #1 published November 2006
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Bob Rogers verified doing the backgrounds in an interview with Roger Hill in Alter-Ego #7 (Winter, 2001).
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The Ring Master Presents

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Various
Inker(s): Various
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Death by Radio

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Captain Marvel [Billy Batson] (image); Harold Pitwell (Wall Street broker, death); Filmore Douglas (business associate of Pitwell, death); Umbersquire (business associate of Pitwell and Douglas); Mr. Macabre [Filpot] (villain, introduction); Sniper (villain)
Synopsis: A former business associate, of the firm Pitwell, Douglas, Umbersquire and Filpot, ousted from the company because he stole a few dollars from the company, swears revenge on his former business partners.
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In Issue: FlagThe Shazam! Family Archives #1 published November 2006
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 15
Disclose Notes: Story title taken from cover and blurb from previous issue. Although Mr. Macabre apparently dies in the story, he does return in Master Comics #26.

The last panel on page 15 gives the title for next issues' story: "The Face in the Dark".
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Slick Jordan, Cutthroat Counterfeiter

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Bulletman [Jim Barr]; Bulletgirl [Susan Kent]; Slick Jordan (villain)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 14
Disclose Notes: Story title taken from the contents page.
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The Ghost of Sir Francis Drake

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Minute Man [Jack Weston]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: contents page title
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A Wager with Fate

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, superhero
Character(s): El Carim; Fate (introduction)
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: El Carim's birth year, 1913, was given in this story.
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The Hooded Hoodlum

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Buck Jones; Silver (horse); Mesquite Mike (deputy); Baxter [Hooded Hoodlum]; Al Evans (prospector)
Synopsis: The Hooded Hoodlum strikes again, killing old gold prospectors for their gold. Buck and Mike set out to stalk down the masked murderer.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Story title taken from the contents page.

Carlson is best recognized by his horses: long narrow, tapering heads and often with front legs stretched out like a rocking horse, as on page 3 panel 3 and very noticeably on page 5 panel 2.
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Dead Man's Doublecross

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): John Broome (signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 2
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The Lure of the Voodoo

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Companions Three [Don; Nifty; Spike]
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Pages: 7

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