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Issue: The Fly #2
Publication Date: July 1983
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Issues: #2 of 9 Issues (19 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagArchie Publications, Inc.
Brand: Red Circle Comics GroupView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Red Circle Productions Inc.
On Sale Date: 05/17/1983
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $1.25 CAD
$1.00 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 10 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #26.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): the Fly; Fly Girl
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Steranko coloring per index in Comic Book Marketplace # 28, October 1995.
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Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (illustrations)
Inker(s): ? (illustrations)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Under the Gun
Character(s): Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: The 1st part of Robin Snyder's Fly indexes. Includes reprinted covers of Laugh #128 and Pep #151, where the Fly had a back up.
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I Killed The Fly

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Fly; Spider Spry; Turan
Synopsis: Spider Spry fatally shoots the Fly. Turan changes the Fly back into Thomas Troy and heals the Fly's body during the change.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
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A Woman's Place...

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Fly-Girl
Character(s): Fly Girl; Big Max Cardona; Harry Howell
Synopsis: Fly Girl contemplates whether or not to join Thomas in becoming superheroes again. Later, she saves her producer from a mafia boss as Fly-Girl and decides to relaunch her crime-fighting career.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagNew Crusaders: Legacy #[nn] published July 2013
In Content Item: FlagNew Crusaders #3 [unnamed variant] published December 2012
as Director's Cut [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Under the Gun
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Mugging!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Fly; Diamond Jack (a masked mugger); Officer McGee; Ol' Abbey (a witch); Lovecraft (Abbey's magic parrot); the Marches (flashback)
Synopsis: Thomas Troy is mugged by a masked thief named Diamond Jack. He tracks the thief as the Fly but must stop a witch and her mystical parrot from killing the thief.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 17
Disclose Notes: Ol' Abbey is possibly Abigail March, Thomas's adoptive mother from the original series. Clues pointing toward this fact is her name, her being a witch, and The Fly stating that she talked as if they had met before.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: A vignette featuring various "Hangmen".
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: House as for The Shield # 2.
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover. House ad for Thunder Bunny # 1 and Mighty Crusaders poster.
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Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Fly
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: On back cover.

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