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Issue: National Comics #47 Public Domain
Publication Date: April 1945
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Issues: #47 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: 02/07/1945
Volume:
Pages: 60
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 15 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): George Brenner [as George E. Brenner] (editor); Busy Arnold [as E. M. Arnold] (general manager, business manager, publisher, owner); Claire C. Arnold (owner); E. S. Murthey (advertising representative)
Disclose Notes: Comic Magazines: 8 Lord St., Buffalo, N. Y.
Executive Offices: Gurley Building, 322 Main St., Stamford, Conn.
Editorial and Advertising Offices: 415 Lexington Ave., New York City.
Western Advertising Representative, F. E. M. Cole & Co., 605 No. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Ill.

Printed in U. S. A.

On sale date from the publication date reported to the U.S. Copyright Office found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1945, New Series, Volume 40, Number 2. Class B periodical. Copyright registration number B 666264.
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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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The Winning Hand!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, humorous
Character(s): The Barker [Carnie Callahan]; Lena; Major Midge; Samson Smith
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Inker(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Volto from Mars; Grape Nuts Cereal
Character(s): Volto
First Line: A shark! Hey! Look out!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Advertisement for Grape Nuts Cereal done in comic form featuring Volto from Mars.

Inside front cover. Includes a blurb below the Volto advertisement for Hop Harrigan radio show on the Blue Network Monday through Friday. Indicia at the bottom of the page.
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Samson Smith vs. Mighty Moose

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: adventure, humorous
Character(s): The Barker [Carnie Callahan]; Colonel Land (Mammoth Circus owner); Lena; Major Midge; Tiny Tim; Samson Smith; Cappy Kane (villain); Mighty Moose (villain, introduction); Duke (villain, introduction); Runt (villain, introduction)
First Line: A grudge-fight between the strongest men in the world is something for circus fans to remember!
Synopsis: Cappy Kane is back as his strongman, the Mighty Moose, is pitted against Mammoth Circus's own Samson Smith.
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Pages: 11
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Genres: humorous, military
Character(s): Salty Waters
First Line: Let the other guys roam all they want...
Synopsis: U.S. Navy sailor Salty thinks he's been abandoned on a Pacific island.
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[untitled]

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Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Lassie (first appearance); Laddie (first appearance); Roberta (first appearance); Roger (first appearance)
First Line: Oh, Lassie, look! Don't you wish we could see the circus?
Synopsis: Lassie and her friend Laddie want to attend the circus, but Lassie's older sister Roberta has a date with Roger and can't take them.
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Sally Haunts a Ghost

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Genres: mystery
Character(s): Sally O'Neil; Mrs. Vanderdough (first appearance); Nick the Chiseler (first appearance; villain); three other crooks (first appearance; villains; one dies)
First Line: Candles flicker and cast strange, eerie shadows!
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Policewoman portion of the feature name does not appear as part of the feature name in this story.
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Swami Joe and the Counterfeiters

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Genres: adventure, childrens, humorous
Character(s): Intellectual Amos; Swami Joe (first appearance; villain); Silas P. Pinkbottom (first appearance; villain); other two Varx Brothers (first appearance; villaisn)
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Pages: 6
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Helium Tires

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Windy Breeze
First Line: It's foolish to pay twenty bucks to have my furniture moved when I can do it myself!
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The Vengeance of Boss Bumble

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Quicksilver [Max]; Boss Bumble (first appearance; villain); Avie (first appearance; villain; death); Romby (first appearance; villain; death); Dirk (first appearance; villain; death)
First Line: Vengeance was the object for which Boss Bumble lived!
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Pages: 7
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Motorized Dragonflies

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
First Line: Southern California's giant aircraft industry has pups-or more accurately, perhaps, chicks.
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Pages: 1.67
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Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.25
Disclose Notes: Sworn to and subscribed to Louis J. Rubiansky on September 28, 1944.
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Big Joe Ryan and the Silver Bracelet

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Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Chic Carter; Chic's newspaper city editor; Big Joe Ryan (villain, introduction); Louella (villain, introduction); Blackie (villain, Ryan's chauffeur, introduction)
First Line: Here's the story on Big Joe Ryan!
Synopsis: Chic writes a story on Big Joe Ryan and immediately is confronted by a lady wanting him to go to a certain jewelry store and pick up a silver bracelet, and upon delivery to her, he is to get a cool $500! But Ryan meets up with Chic and somehow the bracelet disappears before Carter can deliver it... and Carter is arrested for robbery. But Chic discovers that he has been played for a sucker with a phony, frozen mercury bracelet, and thus seeks out Ryan.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Last appearance.
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Lifeboat No. 1

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Subject Matter
Genres: military, war
Character(s): Commander Blake; First Officer Conroy; The Japanese (villains)
First Line: First Officer Conroy and part of the fighting crew of valiant Destroyer 171 manned a ship's lifeboat...
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Be a Radio Technician

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ? (photograph)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): National Radio Institute
Character(s): J. E. Smith (photograph); John Jerry (photograph); A. J. Forehner (photograph)
First Line: Get into a busy field with a bright peacetime future
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.

Advertisement for the training equipment and book from the National Radio Institute (of Washington, D. C.).
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Inker(s): ? (illustrations)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?; typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): MoToR Book
First Line: Auto repair men! Are you short-handed for mechanics?
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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

An advertisement for the auto repair manual from MoToR (of New York, New York).

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