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Issue: Exciting Comics #1 (22)

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Publication Date: October 1942

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Issues: #1 (22) of 69 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Pines

Brand: none

Indicia Publisher: Better Publications Inc.

On Sale Date: 08/18/1942

Volume: 8

Pages: 68

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 11 (9 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Ned Pines [as N. L. Pines] (president)

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Golden Age US

Paper Stock: glossy cover, newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing

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- The Machine That Raised the Dead [Story on Interior Page(s)]1

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Content Items (11 total)

[untitled]

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): The American Eagle

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Pages: 1

Notes: Cover marquee: "Introducing The American Eagle Democracy's Champion"

Cover is redrawn from title panel of interior story.

The Weather Wreckers

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): The Terror Twins [The Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Tim Roland]; Jean Starr; Barometri (introduction); Schneider

First Line: Off the coast of Samoa...

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Pages: 13

The Machine That Raised the Dead

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): The American Eagle [Tom Standish]; The Eaglet [Bud Pierce](introduction and origin); Dr. Ennis (introduction, death); Klauber (villain, introduction, death); Blackbeard and other villains (villains, introduction, death)

First Line: Why stick to that job, Tom?

Synopsis: A clever Nazi spy learns of a scientist's invention that can bring the dead back to life and kills the man who invented it so he can secure the machine to bring great villains from the past back to life. Bud dons a costume for the first time [Bud says to himself: "Guess I'm The American Eaglet Now, Huh?"] to help his mentor battle for his life!

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Men of Mystery Comics #84 published January 2011
as The Machine That Raised the Dead [Story on Interior Page(s)]in black and white

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Pages: 13

Notes: First appearance in America's Best Comics #2.

Clarion Call

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Genres: war

Character(s): Wong Lee; Sergeant Billy Tyler; Wong San

First Line: Wong Lee had been just a little coolie boy...

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Pages: 1

The Bulletproof Men

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): The Liberator [Professor Nelson Drew]; Annabel Evans; Dr. Voss (introduction, death); Professor Wentworth; Nazis

First Line: Here's the guy who ratted on us, Voss!

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Pages: 11

Circus Lad

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Genres: crime

Character(s): Alfred Gordon; Barnes (circus owner)

First Line: The mellow chorus of the circus band...

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Pages: 1

Ted Crane at the Top of the World

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Genres: adventure

Character(s): Ted Crane; Betty; Dr. Cobra (introduction); Hakawaya; the Dalai Lama

First Line: I wish we didn't have to go back to Calcutta, Ted!

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Pages: 8

Conspiracy by the Clock

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Genres: adventure

Character(s): Pepper Swift; Buzz Ward; Felix Pierre (introduction); Captain Williams; Penny Williams

First Line: Look, effendi, an English scout car!

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Pages: 7

It's a Smash Hit!

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): The Black Terror (inset); Doc Strange (inset); The American Eagle (inset); Captain Future (inset); Secret Ace (inset)); The Woman in Red (inset)

Synopsis: Promo for America's Best Comics

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Larry Saves a Vital Rubber Shipment!

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Genres: war

Character(s): Lieutenant Larry North, U.S. Navy; Betty Harmon; Frieda Schmidt (introductionl Nazi spy); Nazis

First Line: In a small Brazilian town...

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Pages: 6

[untitled]

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Genres: humorous, military

Character(s): Rookie Elmer Riley; Militia; Captain Stone

First Line: Say Riley -- now keep this under ya hat --

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Pages: 3

Notes: NcGill signs each of the three pages.