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Issue: Speed Comics #23 Public Domain
Publication Date: October 1942
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Issues: #23 of 33 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagHarvey
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Family Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 17 (11 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: four color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US (except #14-16, which are pocket-size)
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched (except #14-16, which are squarebound)
Publishing Format: was ongoing
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Read How Capt. Freedom Aids the Commandos

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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Captain Freedom
Character(s): Captain Freedom [Don Wright]
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Pages: 1
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain Freedom [Don Wright]; The Young Defenders [Slim; Whitey; Lefty; Joanie]; Adolph Shturk (Villain, Intro)
First Line: Can Captain Freedom escape the net of circumstantial evidence that emeshes him...
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Pages: 8
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The Nazi Shock Gibson

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Shock Gibson [Robert Charles Gibson]; The Nazi "Shock Gibson" (Villain; Intro); the Nazis (Villain)
First Line: Somewhere in the Atlantic...
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Origin of the Girl Commandos

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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Girl Commando [Pat Parker]; The Girl Commandos [Tanya (Intro); Mei Ling (Intro); Penelope Penny Kirk (Intro); Ellen Billings]; The Japanese (Villain); Dick Lane; Don Fraser; Captain Parker
First Line: As the bloody hands of the Japanese murders stretch down the Burma Road...
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Disclose Notes: Previous indexer credited Jill Elgin. Elgin took over Girl Commandos from Barbara Hall some time in 1943. As Hall is credited with the next issue's Girl Commandos, and this issue is dated in 1942, it's almost certainly Hall and definitely not Elgin.

Keith Chandler : Well reasoned, but simply compare the art with the signed Hall story in issue #24. Hall's use of two nostrils only to designate a nose is the surest sign.

"Pat Parker" is replaced next issue by "Girl Commandos", which is a spin-off of "Pat Parker". The character Pat Parker will continue to appear in "Girl Commandos".
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Genres: humorous, war
Character(s): Biff Bannon; The Admiral
First Line: U.S. Marines and Japs are locked in a life and death struggle...
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Genres: humorous
First Line: Where are you rushing to, Smokey...
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Pages: 0.67
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Flags of the 28 United Nations

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Genres: informational, non-fiction
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Hollywood Attacked By Japs

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Shock Gibson [Robert Charles Gibson] (Guest Star); Ted Parrish (Guest Star); Girl Commando [Pat Parker] (Guest Star); The Girl Commandos [Tanya; Mei-Ling; Penelope Kirk; Ellen Billings] (Guest Star); Captain Freedom [Don Wright]; Dick Lane (Guest Star); Don Frazer (Guest Star); The Japanese (Villain); The Black Cat [Linda Turner]; Rick Horne
First Line: Rendered desperate, Linda Turner, glamourous screen star...
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Disclose Notes: Introduction and origin of Harvey Comics' unofficial hero team.
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The Story Behind the Cover

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Captain Freedom
Character(s): Captain Freedom [Don Wright]
First Line: At Boulogne, the Nazis laid a trap for the Commandos.
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Singapore Ed's Bar

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Genres: aviation
Character(s): Crash; Cork; The Baron; Singapore Eddie (Villain; Intro); the Japanese (Villain)
First Line: When Singapore Eddie...tough, wily ex-barkeep...
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): William Jourdain [as Jourdain] (signed)
Penciller(s): William Jourdain [as Jourdain] (signed)
Inker(s): William Jourdain [as Jourdain] (signed)
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Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Flossie; Flossie's father
First Line: I'll blow you to some ice cream cones...
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Genres: humorous
First Line: You're new in the Navy - aren't you!
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The Curse of Cave Canyon

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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Ted Parrish; An old prospector (Villain; Intro)
First Line: The Man of 1000 Faces, Hollywood's famous actor...
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Speed Sticklers

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Synopsis: Puzzles & games.
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Bimbo
First Line: Yes! I can use a good man to carry a sign around...
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Genres: crime, sports
Character(s): Dapper Dan Dunn (villain; intro; death); Speed Taylor
First Line: The gridiron is the background for one of our country's favorite sports...
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Pages: 6

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