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Issue: Heroic Comics #28 Public Domain
Publication Date: January 1945
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Issues: #28 of 23 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagEastern Color
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: The Eastern Color Printing Company
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 13 (12 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: full color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: war
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Pages: 1
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One of Our Islands Is Missing

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): True Stories of War Heroes
Character(s): Brig. General Alfred Noble; Lt. Col. Banks
First Line: Not long ago newspapers carried a startling story...
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Pages: 4
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I Seen My Duty and I Done It

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): True Stories of War Heroes
Character(s): Major Howard
First Line: During the big Yankee air attack...
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Pages: 3
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What Do You Know about Parachutes?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): True Stories of War Heroes
First Line: Manu inspections make 'chute failure' rare...
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Pages: 4
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How Did They Do It?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction, war
Character(s): Lt. Paul M. Koerner
First Line: In an Allied prisoner camp...
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Pages: 3
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Double Time

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (spot illustration)
Inker(s): ? (spot illustration)
Colorist(s): ? ( spot illustration)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: war
First Line: This is the story of a ship.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: A line drawing, printed in blue, can be seen underneath the text.
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'Human' Torpedoes

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? [as CB] (signed)
Inker(s): ? [as CB] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Character(s): Lt. Richard T. G. Greenland; Sub Lt. Rodney G. Dove; Leading Signalman A. M. Ferrier; Acting Leading Seaman J. M. Freel
First Line: While the Axis threatens the world...
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Signed at bottom of last panel on last page.
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In the Face of Fire

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (spot illustration)
Inker(s): ? (spot illustration)
Colorist(s): ? ( spot illustration)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Character(s): Lt. Russell P. Felerski
First Line: Have you ever been near a "strongly fortified enemy position"?
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Pages: 1
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One Bad Turn Deserves Another

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (spot illustration)
Inker(s): ? (spot illustration)
Colorist(s): ? ( spot illustration)
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): Can the Japs take what they hand out?
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Pages: 1
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The Mad Fiddler

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Music Master
Character(s): The Music Master [John Wallace]; Downbeat; Basil Johnson (museum curator); Belasco
First Line: A dark night...
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Pages: 6
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Man O' Metal
Character(s): Man O' Metal [Pat Dempsey]; Police Captain Trent Rogers; "Loco Louis"; Ed Harrow (crook); Bragan (crook); Flint (crook)
First Line: It doesn't make sense...
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: last appearance
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The Alchemist's Curse

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Hydroman [Bob Blake]; Professor Hargrove' Lorenzo (a Medieval alchemist)
First Line: Through the ages...
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Art identification by Saltarella. Keith Chandler agrees - pure Kiefer.

Although he does not appear, Rainbow Boy plays a pivotal part in the plot.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Frank Wead (credited)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, aviation, war
Feature(s): Flyin' Jenny
Character(s): Flyin' Jenny Dare; Spinner Martin; Rick Davis; Cyril
First Line: Jenny test-flies a Swiftsure Wasp...
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Reprint Notes: from Flyin' Jenny Sunday (The Bell Syndicate) 1942-03-01 [panels 1-4 and 6 only}, probably six panels from 1942-03-15 [no copy available to me for inspection - K. C.]
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2

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