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Issue: Star Spangled Comics #124
Publication Date: January 1952
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Issues: #124 of 130 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: Superman DC National ComicsView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: National Comics Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/12/1951
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 19 (4 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U .S.
Paper Stock: glossy Cover; newsprint Interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Suicide Tower!

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Genres: mystery
Character(s): Doctor Terry Thirteen
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Pages: 1
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Loads of Fun Ahead with Gifts Like These

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Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Suicide Tower!

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Genres: mystery
Character(s): Doctor Terry Thirteen; Marie Leeds; Joe Martinez (death); Pete Clay (death); Carol Deeds
Synopsis: An ancient Aztec curse seems to compel anyone that climbs Suicide Tower to hurl themselves to their deaths, and even Doctor Thirteen nearly succumbs until he figures out the truth of the "curse."
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In Content Item: FlagThe Phantom Stranger #17 published January 1972
as Suicide Tower! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFantomet #11/1998 published January 1998
as Selvmordstårnet [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 7.67
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[untitled]

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First Line: What has a bed but never sleeps...
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What Sparks a Champion Sparks You!

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Genres: sports
Character(s): Johnny Lujack
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Endorsement for Wheaties from Chicago Bears quarterback Johnny Lujack (1925-2023).
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[untitled]

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Genres: childrens
First Line: Here comes the matador!
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Jim Prentice New Amazing Electric Football

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Disclose Notes: Tabletop electric football game from The Electric Game Company.
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Operation "Escape"!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Robin [Dick Grayson]; Champ Trask (flashback)
Synopsis: Robin delivers a lecture to a class of police recruits on how he escaped from a seemingly impossible situation when captured by Champ Trask's gang.
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In Content Item: FlagBatman #199 published February 1968
as Operation "Escape"! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSuperman #4/1969 published February 1969
as Die unmögliche Flucht [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLynvingen #4/1969 published April 1969
as Operasjon flukt [Story on Interior Page(s)]2. translation
In Content Item: FlagThe Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told #[1] published August 1988
as Operation "Escape"! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told #[nn] published December 1988
as Operation "Escape"! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told #[nn] published June 1989
as Operation "Escape"! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5.67
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"Phoo on Goo!" Says Bert Parks

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Disclose Notes: Endorsement from actor, singer, and television host Bert Parks (1914-1992).
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Now's the Time to Ask for a Schwinn

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Disclose Notes: Ad featuring the Schwinn Black Phantom bike.
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The Writers Who Went to Sea!

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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Captain Mark Compass; Jerry Van Horn; Paul Clark; Dennis Johnson
Synopsis: The Captain is convinced to pilot a pleasure cruise for the Ace Crime Writers Club because they fear trouble, but they really want him for the publicity value. However, it's good he's there when one of the writers is murdered and the killer is clearly on board.
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Editorial Advisory Board

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Disclose Notes: Includes a plug for A Date with Judy, Saturday mornings on ABC television.
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Boys! Girls! Hurry!

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Disclose Notes: Ad for a U.S. Military ring and bracelet, a premium from Smith Brothers Cough Drops.
On the page between page 3 and page 4 of the previous story sequence.
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What Sparks a Champion Sparks You

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Soldiers in White

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Genres: non-fiction
Synopsis: Historical article on military nurses.
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Pages: 2
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A Trap for Tomahawk!

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Genres: historical, western
Character(s): Tomahawk; Dan Hunter; Black Fox
Synopsis: Dan is captured by a band of Mohawk outlaws and tricked into revealing his comrade's whereabouts, but Tomahawk has planned a ruse of his own to stay safe and free Dan.
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Disclose Notes: Art layouts look like Bob Brown.
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[untitled]

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Character(s): Charlie Wild
Synopsis: Charlie Wild, private detective, stays stylish with Wildroot Cream-Oil, even when chasing crooks.
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Superboy Says "Share with Others!"

Public Service Announcement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: opinion, superhero
Character(s): Superboy
Synopsis: Superboy helps some teens in Smallville organize a charity to buy shoes for poor people in foreign countries.
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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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New Double Gift Idea!

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Disclose Notes: Back cover; suggestion to buy a junior membership in the National Rifle Association along with a Daisy Air Rifle as a Christmas gift.

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