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Issue: Speed Comics #40

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Publication Date: November 1945

Issue #40
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Issues: #40 of 33 Issues

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Publisher: Flag

Harvey

Brand: none

Indicia Publisher: Family Comics Inc.

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

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Content Items: 8 (6 stories, 1 cover)

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: four color

Dimensions: standard Golden Age US (except #14-16, which are pocket-size)

Paper Stock: newsprint

Binding: saddle-stitched (except #14-16, which are squarebound)

Publishing Format: was ongoing

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Content Items (8 total)

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Illustration on Cover, Front

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Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Captain Freedom [Don Wright]; Black Cat [Linda Turner]

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Pages: 1

Notes: Illustrates the text story

Laundry Store for Sale--Cheap!

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Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Captain Freedom [Don Wright]; The Young Defenders [Slim; Whitey; Lefty; Blackie; Beanie; Joanie]; Mirimushima (villain); Lieutenant Saki (villain)

First Line: Unhand my lady, Don Miguel...

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Pages: 10

Notes: A previous indexer credited the art to 'Rudy Palais ?', but this is not his style.

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Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Character(s): Maisie; her mother and father; Dick (bugler)

First Line: Good morning Pa - you just getting home?

Synopsis: Maisie's new boyfriend is a bugler.

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Pages: 1

Notes: The "Getting Maisie Married" feature formerly appeared in Green Hornet Comics (Harvey, 1942 Series). It will now appear in various comics, without a regular home.

Death from One Million B. C.

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Shock Gibson [Robert Charles Gibson]; Hirohito (Villain); the Japanese (Villain)

First Line: Once the Earth was young...

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Pages: 9

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Genres: non-fiction

Feature(s): Speed Sticklers

Synopsis: assorted puzzles

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Pages: 0.5

The Story Behind the Cover

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

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Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Black Cat, Captain Freedom

Character(s): Captain Freedom [Don Wright]; The Black Cat [Linda Turner]

First Line: For some time, the shooting had stopped...

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Pages: 2

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Bimbo

First Line: Dishes! Dishes!! Dishes!!!

Synopsis: Bimbo buys an automatic washing machine.

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Pages: 1

Notes: This is the final appearance of "Bimbo's Beanery" feature in Speed Comics. The feature appears next in Black Cat (Harvey, 1946 Series) #3 (December/January 1946/1947).

Forgotten Land!!!

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Genres: adventure

Character(s): The Girl Commandos [Pat Parker; Tanya; Ellen; Penny; Mei-Ling]; Father Kiri (Intro); The Japanese (Villain)

First Line: There's a land so strange...

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Pages: 7