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Issue: Startling Comics #2 (20) Public Domain
Publication Date: March 1943
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Issues: #2 (20) of 53 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagPines
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Better Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 01/19/1943
Volume: 7
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 12 (11 stories, 1 cover)
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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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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
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Pages: 1
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Venom and the Black Boas Attack

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Inker(s): ? [as AA] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Venom (villain); Black Boas [Diedrich; Voss; others] (villains, introduction); Nazis (villains)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: Artist previously identified as Jack Binder. Many signs of Ken Battefield in the art, but he is either one of several pencillers (a shop job), or has one or more inkers who could be signing as "AA". Identical "AA" signatures can be found on the splash pages to Pyroman in America's Best Comics #5 (also with art by Ken Battefield) and The Tarantula in DC's Star Spangled Comics #17. No Battefield art is apparent in that story which makes me believe that "AA" is the inker.
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When Strikes the Scorpion

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Scorpion (villain, introduction)
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Pages: 14
Disclose Notes: Artist previously identified as possibly Alex Schomburg.
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For Freedom

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
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The Ionizer Murders

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Character(s): Nishi (villain, introduction, death); Karl (villain, introduction, death)
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Pages: 8
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The Dwarf Attacks

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Character(s): Black Satan (villain); the Dwarf (villain, introduction, death?)
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Pages: 10
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous
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Pages: 1
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Refugee Boy

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
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Origin of the Oracle

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Character(s): The Oracle [Bob Paxton] (introduction, origin); Nazis (villains)
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Pages: 8
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Slip Ahoy
First Line: You bet, son!
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Pages: 2
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Boy Volunteer

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Brandt (villain, introduction, death); Weber (villain); Nazis (villain, introduction, some death); Axis agents (villain, introduction, death)
First Line: In San Francisco --
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Pages: 6

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