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Issue: The Kilroys #44 Public Domain
Publication Date: October 1953
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Issues: #44 of 54 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagAmerican Comics Group
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Indicia Publisher: Best Syndicated Features Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 12 (7 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was on-going series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
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Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Solid Jackson; Natch Kilroy
First Line: Wodda jerk! If somebody was hunting me, I wouldn't think it was so funny!
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Solid Jackson; Natch Kilroy; Slim; Judy Farrell; Portia Karloff; Wilbur Morton; Sylvia (Wilbur's cousin)
First Line: Jackson! What's the matter with you?
Synopsis: Wilbur's pretty cousin comes to visit and he sets up a plot to have her make a play for Natch. However, she ends up making a play for Jackson instead.
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Pages: 7
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Quick as a Flash!

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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: romantic, teen
Character(s): Trudy; Buff Collins
Synopsis: Trudy tries to get school photographer Buff Collins to notice her, but thinks she's ruined her chances when she stumbles while carrying Buff's camera equipment and a camera's flash goes off.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous, teen
Feature(s): Natch
Character(s): Natch Kilroy; Solid Jackson; Slim; Judy Farrell; Portia Karloff
First Line: Hey, Jackson! Wanta see a swell dive!
Synopsis: Depressed because all the girls have gone to summer camps for a month, Natch and Jackson decide to go camping on their own. They accidentally pick a spot on the lake that's right by Judy's and Portia's camp.
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Feature(s): Pud; Dubble Bubble; Fleer
Character(s): Pud; Janie; Tim
First Line: I'm scared! This really is a tough neighborhood!
Synopsis: While taking a shortcut through a bad neighborhood, Pud, Janie, and Tim see a gang beating up a little kid. Pud blows a big bubble that bursts, knocking the bad guys down.
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Disclose Notes: Ad in comic format for Dubble Bubble bubble gum. F. H. Fleer Corp, Philadelphia, Pa. Art is not signed.
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For Recommended Reading---American Comics Group!

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Feature(s): American Comics Group
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Disclose Notes: Promo for American Comics Group with comic titles listed in stars. No characters depicted.
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Girl Gets Boy!

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: romantic, teen
Character(s): Janie Blaine; Rupert Potter
Synopsis: Janie needs a date to Angelica's party and as a last result asks her father to find a blind date for her from the relatives of his co-workers in his office. It works out better than she ever expected.
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Bye, Bye, Bonds!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Mr. Kilroy; Natch Kilroy; Solid Jackson; Mrs. Kilroy; Slim; Miss Jones
Synopsis: Mr. Kilroy forgets to mail the bonds on a half-million dollar deal. He calls Natch to have him take the bonds to the airport and send them registered mail. On the way Natch picks up Jackson on his way to a music lesson. As expected, Jackson takes the bonds to his music lesson and Natch sends Jackson's sheet music to California. It all turns out all right in the end, though there are side trips to the city dump and California.
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Nice Work

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Genres: humorous, teen
Synopsis: A boy passes up a chance to attend a big dance in order to "baby-sit" the Fosters' teen-age niece.
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The Big Promotion!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Feature(s): Katie Kilroy
Character(s): Katie Kilroy; Portia Karloff; Natch Kilroy; Solid Jackson; Slim; Mr. Kilroy; Mrs. Kilroy; Judy Farrell; Lawrence Welk
Synopsis: When Katie and Portia have to let Natch and Jackson use the Kilroy's record player, the girls decide the town needs a clubroom just for girls. To raise funds for the project, Katie organizes a benefit dance for the girls' parents (featuring Lawrence Welk), and has everything set--except that she forgot to budget money to pay the band.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Lawrence Welk, complete with accordion, has a speaking role. The story is very heavy in teen slang, to the extent there are footnotes translating slang in two panels (mill = car, pocket lads = fathers, don't tense = take it easy).
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Free.. 10 Hitler Stamps

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Character(s): Adolf Hitler (postage stamp image)
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Disclose Notes: Ad for postage stamps on approval, with premium of a set of ten Adolf Hitler stamps from Bohemia-Moravia, which are depicted. Littleton Stamp Co., Dept. 9-ACG, Littleton, N.H.
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Hey skinny! ...Yer ribs are showing!

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?; ? (photo)
Inker(s): ?; ? (photo)
Letterer(s): ?; typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Charles Atlas (photo)
Synopsis: Joe gets pushed around at the beach because he's skinny. After taking the Charles Atlas course he pays back the bully.
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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover. Variation of the classic Charles Atlas comic-format ad. Charles Atlas, Dept. 29, 115 East 23 St., New York 10, N.Y.

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