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Issue: Red Seal Comics #17 Public Domain
Publication Date: July 1946
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Issues: #17 of 5 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagChesler / Dynamic
Brand: World's Greatest Comics / Harry "A" Chesler Jr.View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Harry A. Chesler, Jr. Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 1946
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 12 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Will Harr, rather than Chesler himself, is named as editor in statements of ownership from this period. However, his name is not listed in the issue indicia.
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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
Format Notes:  
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): The Black Dwarf [Shorty Wilson]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): The Black Dwarf [Shorty Wilson]
First Line: Dead men tell tales when their crimes are under investigation...
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In Content Item: FlagCrime Reporter #3 published October 1948
as Dynamite Switch Foils Payroll Loot Payoff [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
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First Line: How could the Gay Desperado dodge death long enough...
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In Content Item: FlagThe Texan #1 published August 1948
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Data from Byron at Mile High Comics.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Pete; Broomjaw; Old Battleaxe; Uncle Joe; Eva
First Line: Scram! Vamoose! Beat it!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Data from Byron at Mile High Comics.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Kitty Kelly; Doctor Cramer; Miss Terrill; Mrs. Rice; Nick Nicotine
First Line: Poison deaths of children at the public nursery started Kitty Kelly, demure social worker, on a search for soulless racketeers in black market meat.
Synopsis: Kitty uncovers a plot by a shady club owner to switch good meat for bad meat after children under her care come down with ptomaine poisoning.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Previous appearance in CAPTAIN FLIGHT COMICS #9 (Four Star)

The faces and figure movement match the work of Ricca on Ibis the Invincible and his credited story in Strange Terrors #7.
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, military
Feature(s): Giggles
First Line: This is insubordination!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: 2-page centerspread. 3 one-panel gags (military oriented) and one 3-panel gag.
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Murder, C.O.D.

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, fantasy, superhero
Character(s): Lady Satan [Marietta Chesler]; The Shadow People; three unnamed children; werewolf (villain, death)
First Line: What's that ahead on the road? Good Heavens!
Synopsis: Lady Satan encounters three children that are under the control of a werewolf who turns them into werewolves and who attack her. She fends them off using her Xanda Powder, the calls up the Shadow People to lead her to the madman responsible so that she can end his reign of terror.
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In Content Item: FlagWeird Horrors #1 published June 1952
as The Werewolves Howl [Story on Interior Page(s)]Story almost entirely rewritten. Lady Satan redrawn and renamed Josephine LeBlanc for this story.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Previous appearance in Dynamic Comics #3.

Art credits by Craig Delich, courtesy of Mark Heike.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Sky Chief [Burton Strong]; Linda Hall; Ed McKail; Prince Abdullah Singh
First Line: Burton Strong, scientist, scoffed at Joshua Kendall's prophecy...
Synopsis: Sky Chief uses his sky submarine to stop Prince Singh from getting his hands on smuggled jewels.
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In Content Item: FlagNorthwest Mounties #3 published April 1949
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Previous appearance in PUNCH COMICS #11.
Data from Byron at Mile High Comics.
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Two Minutes to Doom

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
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In Content Item: FlagAuthentic Police Cases #5 published October 1948
as Two Minutes to Doom [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
First Line: 'Honey' Combs, Broadway actress who hasn't had a role...
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In Content Item: FlagCrime Reporter #2 published October 1948
as Crime Reporter Nabs Stage Beauty's Killer [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagAuthentic Police Cases #8 published August 1950
as Crime Reporter Nabs Stage Beauty's Killer [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Data from Byron at Mile High Comics.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, non-fiction, sports
First Line: The cost of a college football player's suit
Synopsis: Humorous illustrations accompany text describing how much a football helmet, jersey, etc., cost.
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Pages: 1

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