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Issue: Four Favorites #20 Public Domain
Publication Date: November 1945
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Issues: #20 of 32 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagAce Magazines
Brand: An Ace MagazineView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Ace Books Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/28/1945
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 9 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On sale date as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, 1945, page 467, registration number B696154.
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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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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Magno
Character(s): Magno; the Sword (cover only); Lightning (inset); Unknown Soldier (inset); Capt. Courageous (inset)
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An Outstanding Value!!

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Simmons Company
First Line: Leather today is scarce! A good leather wallet at a ...
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Disclose Notes: Inside front cover mail order ad for a leather wallet from Simmons Company, 30 Church St., Dept. B-9, New York 7, New York.
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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Magno and Davey
Character(s): Magno; Davey; Godfrey Van Kyne; Lana Sherman; Lyle Johnson; Hal; Mike
First Line: Behind the glitter and glamour of Hollywood, behind the false fronts...
Synopsis: Magno and Davey are at the Associated Players studio in Hollywood when two of the biggest stars are mysteriously killed.
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Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: Inks previously credited to "?", but they are distinctively Palais.
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Genres: espionage, superhero
Character(s): Unknown Soldier; unnamed Japanese spy; Tu Sing; Wu Fang
First Line: Loyal Chinese-Americans toasted their friends in far-off China...
Synopsis: A Japanese spy infiltrates a Chinese-American group to get the names of those in the Chinese resistance and mark them for death.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Last appearance. In #21 he's replaced by 'The Unknown', an invisible Fate-like character
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Desperado Destiny

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Bill McCarthy; Frank McCarthy; Tom McCarthy; Matt Warner; Dave Moffat; Fred McCarthy; A. T. Blanchley; H. H. Wolbert; W. Ray Simpson
First Line: Gunfire cut loose in the bank at Roselyn, Washington...
Synopsis: A detailed account of the bank robberies of the McCarthy Blue Mountain Gang in Colorado and Washington state in 1889 and 1892.
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The Werewolf of Wetheridge

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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Lash Lightning
Character(s): Lash Lightning; Lightning Girl [Isobel Blake] (reporter for The Daily Ledger); Chief (editor); Professor Davis; Weber (rival reporter)
First Line: Only superstitious folk in the middle ages believed...
Synopsis: A reported werewolf sighting is investigated by Isobel Blake on the property of professor Davis.
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Disclose Notes: Inks previously credited to "?", but by comparison with her work for other publishers they are by Albright herself.
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Genres: superhero, war
Feature(s): Captain Courageous
Character(s): Captain Courageous; Captain Nippo (arch-villain); Professor Arvin; Arvin's daughter and wife; Japanese navy captain
First Line: So Deadly was America's new secret weapon that -- upon its completion...
Synopsis: On the brink of completing a top secret bomb detonator, Professor Arvin is captured by Captain Nippo.
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Learn to Fight and Post-War Opportunities

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First Line: Are you prepared when danger strikes?
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Disclose Notes: Two inside back cover mail order ads for 1) books on boxing, wrestling and Jiu-Jitsu and 2) self-taught foreign languages. Available from Pickwick Company, Dept. C-1107, 73 West 44th St., New York 18, New York.
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What's My Job? - I Manufacture Weaklings into Men!

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Letterer(s): typeset
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First Line: Give me a skinny, pepless, second-rate body- and...
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Disclose Notes: Back cover mail order ad for a body building book from Charles Atlas, Dept. 25510, 115 East 23rd St., New York 10, New York.

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