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Issue: National Comics #45 Public Domain
Publication Date: December 1944
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Issues: #45 of 75 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
Brand: Quality Comic GroupView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Comic Magazines
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume:
Pages: 60
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 11 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): George Brenner
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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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Genres: adventure, humorous
Character(s): The Barker [Carnie Callahan]
First Line: Extra! The Barker pays off --
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Seven Wonders Show and Pageant of Peace

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Genres: adventure, humorous
Character(s): The Barker [Carnie Callahan]; Sam Smart (villain, introduction); Smart's gang (villains introduction for all); Mayor of Grabville (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: The Barker handles an unholy alliance of thugs and crooked politicians.
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Pages: 11
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous, military
Character(s): Salty Waters
First Line: Oh, boy! Shore leave on a tropical isle!
Synopsis: Salty pursues a beautiful island girl.
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Case No. 19: The Agents of Despair

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Genres: espionage
Character(s): G-2 [Don Leash]; Narmanx (first appearance; villain; death); Kara (first appearance; villain); Vilmo (first appearance; villain)
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Pages: 7
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Champ Mushroom Grower

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Windy Breeze
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The Timberley Diamond

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Quicksilver [Max] (circus acrobat); Vera Durant (villain, introduction); Boris (villain, introduction); Boris and Vera's gang (villains, introduction for all)
Synopsis: A fabulous diamond worth a kingdom is to be cut and Quicksilver is asked to be around for safety.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Same art as in the signed Quackenbush story in #46: short torsos, narrow heads and Quicksilver himself looking a bit puny.
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Danger -- Deadly Weapons

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Genres: mystery
Character(s): Sally O'Neil; Terrible Toomey (first appearance; villain); Kit Kett (first appearance; villain)
Synopsis: After a prison break, Terrible Toomey swears to kill Sally O'Neil for sending him up.
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City of Fear

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Good Neighbors -- Yes

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Genres: occult, superhero, war
Character(s): Uncle Sam; Kroff (villain); Zando (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: Uncle Sam, at the request of a Latin American nation's president, heads south of the border to the nation of Zatlan, where a ring of criminals are inciting the locals to revolt against the president.
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Disclose Notes: Last Golden Age appearance Next appearance in Justice League Of America #107.

Leav obviously with his faces and especially his large hands.
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Abazec the Great

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Genres: mystery
Character(s): Chic Carter; Abazec (villain, introduction); Abazec's gang (villains, introduction for all)
Synopsis: Chic finds himself picketed by the amalgamated union of ghosts and ghouls who wear hoods like those of the Ku Klux Klan.
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Destroyer 171 Is Missing

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Genres: war
Character(s): Lt. Commander Harvey Blake; Captain Saito (first appearance; villain; death); the Japanese (villains)
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