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Issue: Adventure Comics #33
Publication Date: December 1938
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Issues: #33 of 472 Issues (530 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Detective Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/09/1938
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 29 (16 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is the publication date reported in the U. S. Copyright Office filing.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.; standard Silver Age U.S.; standard Modern Age U.S.; digest (5" x 6.75") (#491-503)
Paper Stock: glossy cover (#32-490); cardstock cover (#491-503); newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched; squarebound (#390, 416, 491-503)
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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[untitled]

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Synopsis: Man grabbing strut of airplane.
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In Content Item: FlagAll-American Comics [ashcan] #[nn] published April 1939
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]in black & white
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

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First Line: It's all in Fun!
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Disclose Notes: Inside front cover with house ad for Fun Comics, Action Comics, and Detective Comics, and indicia.
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El Diablo, Part 6

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Genres: adventure
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Pages: 6
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Salty Sam
Character(s): Salty Sam (introduction)
First Line: What'a storm I better stay in th' cabin-!
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Pages: 0.67
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Bob Showed Them How Spies Work!

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Feature(s): Chemcraft
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Pages: 0.33
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The Y-Kim

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Feature(s): Tom Brent
Character(s): Tom Brent; Fo-Hi (villain, introduction, death)
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Genres: mystery
First Line: Steve Carson has dashed into a blazing house to rescue a fugitive from a fiery death -- when the house collapses, Carson's doom appears to have been sealed!
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George Furey

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Genres: non-fiction, sports
Feature(s): Sportettes
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In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s)
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First Line: Well, Members, here we are getting on into late Fall and almost the beginnings of Winter.
Synopsis: The column discusses how to take fingerprints with text mostly lifted from the column in New Adventure Comics #21.
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Pages: 0.83
Disclose Notes: The page includes a clip-and-mail coupon that could be sent, along with 10 cents, to "enlist" in the Junior Federal Men Club. Those who joined received a badge, certificate and Operator's number.
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Electric Unloading

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First Line: Thrills of thrills in new 1938 Lionel trains
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Pages: 0.17
Disclose Notes: An ad for Lionel trains from the Lionel Corporation along with a form that could be sent in to receive a catalog.
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The Plantation Uprising, Part 2

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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Dale Daring
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Pages: 4
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Sam the Porter
First Line: Barber shop down stairs!
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The 11-Year-Old Strong Boy!

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Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): Now You Know
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The Masked Man, Part 2

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Genres: adventure
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Pages: 6
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In Arabia, Part 1

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Genres: adventure
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Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): Nevertheless It's True...
First Line: The amazing friendship between 11-year old Jack Wilson...
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Pages: 1
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Many Roumanian Stamps

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): The Stamp Mart
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Disclose Notes: Page includes several small ads for stamps dealers.
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Pushing a Baby Carriage

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Genres: humorous
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Pages: 2
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[untitled]

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Feature(s): Puzzle Play
First Line: I've made five seven letter words...
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Leon Trotsky, Walt Disney, Mary Maguire, Lawrence Tibbett

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Genres: non-fiction
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The Lost Gold Mine, Part 5

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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Cal n' Alec
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Pages: 2
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Hot Money [Part 2]

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 2
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The God of the Ruby Eye, Part 7

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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Tod Hunter
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: The first two pages are black, white, and red; the last two are black and white.
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Episode 28

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Feature(s): The Golden Dragon
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Pages: 6
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The Pirate Ship, Part 8

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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Rusty; The Duchess (villain, introduction)
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The Lucky Ring

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Genres: adventure
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Information on creator credits and alias name from Alter Ego (TwoMorrows, 1999 series) #45 (February 2005).
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[untitled]

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Genres: childrens, humorous, western
Character(s): Billy the Kid
First Line: I'm thinkin bout the day I drank eleven choc'lit sodies!!
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Pages: 1
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Be a Movie King

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Johnson Smith & Co.
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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Feature(s): Johnson Smith & Co.
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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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