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Issue: Skyrocket Comics #[nn]

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Publication Date: January 1944

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Variant: unnamed

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Publisher: Flag

Chesler / Dynamic

Brand: none

Indicia Publisher: Home Guide Publications

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: none

Pages: 52

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency: none

Content Items: 11 (9 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Harry "A" Chesler ?

Notes: There is NO date anywhere within this comic book. The publisher is listed as Home Guide Publications / 163 West 23rd Street / New York.
Entire Contents Created by Harry "A" Chesler, Jr. Features Syndicate, N. Y.

Note that the syndicate was named after packager Harry "A" Chesler's son. Chesler Sr. may or may not have edited, as he had editors within his packaging operation.

Jerry Bails’ Who’s Who lists Ken Battefield as having worked on Skyrocket for Chesler in 1944, indicating further that 1944 is the probable year of this comic book's publishing.

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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

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- [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]1

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Content Items (11 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: war

Feature(s): Skyrocket

Character(s): Skyrocket

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Pages: 1

[untitled]

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Genres: informational, nature, non-fiction

First Line: Vultures - These scrawny scavengers never kill for food.

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Notes: Appears on the inside front ocver.

[untitled]

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Subject Matter

Genres: war

Feature(s): Skyrocket

Character(s): The Skyrocket (Intro, a plane); Lt. Ted Howard

First Line: What plane can speed at 750 miles per...

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Pages: 8

[untitled]

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Genres: sports

First Line: The winnah! What the h---?

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Pages: 6

The Million Dollar Murders

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Genres: crime

Feature(s): Alias the Dragon

Character(s): Alias the Dragon [Sgt. Bill Norton] (Intro)

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Pages: 6

[untitled]

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Genres: mystery

Feature(s): Inspector Pratt

Character(s): Inspector Pratt (Intro)

First Line: Operating from the mysterious leads sent him by...

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Pages: 7

[untitled]

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Genres: horror

Feature(s): Dr. Vampire

Character(s): Dr. Vampire [Dr. John Rogers]; Mikail (Villain, Intro, Death; a vampire)

First Line: Shocked by civilization's failure to stamp out the...

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Pages: 7

[untitled]

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Genres: mystery

Feature(s): Ghost-Hunter

Character(s): Fred Randall (Ghost Hunter, Intro)

First Line: From Maine to Mexico the eerie exploits of...

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Pages: 7

[untitled]

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Genres: crime

Feature(s): The Desperado

Character(s): Max Badger (Villain, Intro)

First Line: Accused of a bank robbery he did not...

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In Content Item: Flag

Northwest Mounties #4 published July 1949
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Pages: 7

[untitled]

Cartoon on Interior Page(s)

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Genres: activity, non-fiction

First Line: That saliva is Nature's germ killer?

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Pages: 1

Daniel Boone

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Genres: biography, informational

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Pages: 1

Notes: In our index for Star Comics (Chesler / Dynamic, 1937 series) #2, art for this story is attributed to Rafael Astarita. But when first indexed here, it was attributed to Richard Speed.