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Issue: Startling Comics #1 (19) Public Domain
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagPines
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Better Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/24/1942
Volume: 7
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 12 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1943, New Series, Vol. 38, No. 1.
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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
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superhero
Pyroman [Dick Martin]
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Miscellaneous
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superhero
The Fighting Yank [Bruce Carter III]; Joan; Hodge; Fenkel (villain)
Bruce Carter finds the cloak worn by his ancestor...
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superhero
Pyroman [Dick Martin]; Clark; Merkel (villain); Joyce Clark
With thousands of volts of surging electrical power...
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humorous
Shorty; Bobo
Say! You look hungry!
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3
Fisher Boy

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Lane Archer (credited)
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typeset
Subject Matter
war
Paddy Gallagher; Lieutenant Borden
Paddy Gallagher had been watching...
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superhero
Captain Future [Dr. Andrew Bryant]; Grace; Oscar (Nazi); Mamba (Nazi villain)
A chance crossing of the gamma-ray...
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11
Platt signs in panel six of the final page.
Tim Plays Lawman

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western
Tim Marsh; Bad Bill Mawson (crook)
Tim Marsh thought it was lots of fun...
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adventure, childrens
Four Comrades [Tommy Tompkins; Pudge O'Connor; Buzz Brandon; Tip Adams]; Adolph (Nazi)
Four youthful patriots run rife...
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childrens, humorous
Tubby; the Truant Officer
I think I'll play hookey!
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drama, humorous
Mickey McCoy; June
Oh, Mickey -- the stork brought the cutest little...
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Previously credited to Steve Ditko, who would have been aged fifteen. Compare art style and signature with the Gunboat Grey feature in Exciting Comics v#6, #2 (17), from a few months earlier.
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typeset
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adventure, espionage
Don Davis; Colonel Ashley; Hans (Nazi); Krutz (nazi)
A U.S. Army officer conducting liason...
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