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Issue: Four Favorites #20 Public Domain
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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)
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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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superhero
Magno
Magno; the Sword (cover only); Lightning (inset); Unknown Soldier (inset); Capt. Courageous (inset)
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An Outstanding Value!!

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Simmons Company
Leather today is scarce! A good leather wallet at a ...
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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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superhero
Magno and Davey
Magno; Davey; Godfrey Van Kyne; Lana Sherman; Lyle Johnson; Hal; Mike
Behind the glitter and glamour of Hollywood, behind the false fronts...
Magno and Davey are at the Associated Players studio in Hollywood when two of the biggest stars are mysteriously killed.
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Inks previously credited to "?", but they are distinctively Palais.
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espionage, superhero
Unknown Soldier; unnamed Japanese spy; Tu Sing; Wu Fang
Loyal Chinese-Americans toasted their friends in far-off China...
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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Last appearance. In #21 he's replaced by 'The Unknown', an invisible Fate-like character
Desperado Destiny

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western
Bill McCarthy; Frank McCarthy; Tom McCarthy; Matt Warner; Dave Moffat; Fred McCarthy; A. T. Blanchley; H. H. Wolbert; W. Ray Simpson
Gunfire cut loose in the bank at Roselyn, Washington...
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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Lash Lightning
Lash Lightning; Lightning Girl [Isobel Blake] (reporter for The Daily Ledger); Chief (editor); Professor Davis; Weber (rival reporter)
Only superstitious folk in the middle ages believed...
A reported werewolf sighting is investigated by Isobel Blake on the property of professor Davis.
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Inks previously credited to "?", but by comparison with her work for other publishers they are by Albright herself.
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Captain Courageous
Captain Courageous; Captain Nippo (arch-villain); Professor Arvin; Arvin's daughter and wife; Japanese navy captain
So Deadly was America's new secret weapon that -- upon its completion...
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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Are you prepared when danger strikes?
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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.
What's My Job? - I Manufacture Weaklings into Men!

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Give me a skinny, pepless, second-rate body- and...
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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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