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Issue: Reg'lar Fellers Heroic Comics #15 Public Domain
Publication Date: November 1942
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Issues: #15 of 15 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagEastern Color
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: The Eastern Color Printing Company
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.15 CAD
$0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 12 (11 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Canadian price is listed in the indicia. Series changes to HEROIC COMICS with next issue.
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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 ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Original Artwork
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Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Music Master
Character(s): The Music Master [John Wallace]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: political, superhero
Character(s): Hydroman [Bob Blake]; Rainbow Boy [Jack Watson]; lighthouse keeper; Coast Guard captain; diamond smugglers [Lefty; rest unnamed] (villains)
First Line: Hydroman's new friend, Rainbow Boy, singlehandedly disposed of the gang of helium thieves but does not know that Hydroman has met with foul play!
Synopsis: Rainbow Boy joins a dazed Hydroman, after he had struggled with the now imprisoned Helium Gang, and informs him that he has received a strange wireless from the Rock Island Lighthouse. Hydroman investigates, making his way into the lighthouse and finding the keeper, who alerts Hydroman that a gang of smugglers are attempting to bring in diamonds from South America. While the keeper alerts the authorities, Hydroman rounds up the crooks and turns them over to the Coast Guard.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: Script credit revised from Ben Thompson ? to Douglas ? by Craig Delich. The Who's Who indicates that Thompson drew the feature only and no extant evidence exists that Thompson also wrote this feature. The Who's Who does not indicate who wrote the Hydroman strip, but does indicate Douglas as the writer and creator of Rainbow Boy.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Rainbow Boy
Character(s): Rainbow Boy [Jack Watson]; Whitey Wynkoop; Mrs. Wynkoop (Whitey's mother); Joe (train engineer); Nick Gilioni (villain, racketeer); Gilioni's mob (villains)
First Line: Flashing out of the sky with the speed of light, Rainbow Boy appears to save his friend Whitey from a horrible fate!
Synopsis: After a mysterious ailment strikes several Sutton Hall football players during a game, Jack investigates and discovers that the team's drinking water had been drugged. When Whitey disappears, Jack, as Rainbow Boy, confronts racketeer Gilioni, who had bet a large sum of money against Sutton Hall.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: See comments on previous story. According to Bails, Thompson did not write any of the features he worked on at Eastern.
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Dugan's Riding Akademy

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
Feature(s): Reg'lar Fellers
Character(s): Jimmie Dugan; Pinhead Duffy
First Line: I unnerstan!
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Reprint Notes: from Reg'lar Fellers Sunday (King Features Syndicate)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Music Master
Character(s): The Music Master [John Wallace]
First Line: As John Wallace, the famous Music Master, awaits his turn to buy his weekly quota of United States war bonds and stamps, he suddenly hears the excited voices of two men...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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Introducing MM's Prodigy..."Downbeat" Penrod Hunter

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Music Master
Character(s): The Music Master [John Wallace]; Penrod "Downbeat" Hunter (introduction)
First Line: Never in its history...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
Feature(s): Reg'lar Fellers
Character(s): Jimmie Dugan; Pinhead Duffy
First Line: But how do we know...
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Reg'lar Fellers Sunday (King Features Syndicate)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Daniel R. Edwards, U.S.A.

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Frank Rentfrow (credited)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: biography, military
Feature(s): Daredevils of Destiny
Character(s): Daniel R. Edwards
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Daredevils of Destiny Sunday (The Bell Syndicate)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: A single Sunday page is enlarged and reshaped and spread across two comic pages.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Man O' Metal
Character(s): Man O' Metal [Pat Dempsey]; Tom Wentworth
First Line: Pat Dempsey and Tom Wentworth, son of a ...
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagArt in Time: Unknown Comic Book Adventures, 1940-1980 #[nn] published May 2010
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Credits from the reprint. There is no evidence that Peter ever wrote this strip.

Peter signs in the fourth panel of the final page.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
Feature(s): Reg'lar Fellers
Character(s): Jimmie Dugan; Pinhead Duffy
First Line: Look, Jimmie!
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Reg'lar Fellers Sunday (King Features Syndicate)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: last appearance
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Downhill Race

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (2 spot illustrations)
Inker(s): ? (2 spot illustrations)
Colorist(s): ? (2 spot illustrations)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Terry Cranford; Cliff Dekker
First Line: Terry Cranford raised up for a breath of fresh air...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, aviation, war
Feature(s): Flyin' Jenny
Character(s): Flyin' Jenny Dare; Cyril Richmint; Rick; Basil;
First Line: In a fit of childish anger...
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Flyin' Jenny Sunday (The Bell Syndicate) 1941-03-09 - 1941-03-30 [first three panels only]
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5

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