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Issue: Movie Comics #6
Publication Date: September 1939
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Issues: #6 of 6 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Picture Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 23 (12 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: MOVIE COMICS No. 414499—September-October, 1939—Volume 1, No. 6. Published monthly by PICTURE PUBLICATIONS, INC., 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, N. Y., M. C. Gaines, Managing Editor. C. Elbert, Editor; Sheldon Mayer, Assistant Editor. Entered as second class matter February 14, 1926, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Yearly subscriptions in the U. S. A. and Canada $1.50, elsewhere $2.20. U. S. A. Patent Office Trade Mark No. 414499 under the act of February 20, 1905. Entire contents copyrighted, 1939.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; color interior
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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The Phantom Creeps

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Jean Drew ? (photo of Dorothy Arnold ? ); Dr. Alex Zorka [Dr. Zane] (photo of Bela Lugosi)
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: From "The Phantom Creeps" (1939). Female character & actress may not be correct; names taken from top billed female character.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Johnson Smith & Co.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Now Showing

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): American Specialty Company
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The Real Glory

Photo Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: adventure
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Pages: 9
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Rescue on a Bicycle

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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Buddy Tibbit
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Pages: 2.5
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Fotoshop
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In Old Monterey

Photo Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Gene Autry
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Pages: 5
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Movie Comics Stamp Page
First Line: The Oregon Trail
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Pages: 1
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ? (red only)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Movie Varieties
First Line: You've simply got to forget he's your husband...
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, humorous
Feature(s): Movietown
First Line: Vom Hunger Fraud
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Pages: 3
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The Phantom Creeps

Photo Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: horror, science fiction
Synopsis: The mad inventor Dr. Zorka builds a powerful robot called the "Phantom", an invisibility device, and a powerful meteor ray which he hopes will help him conquer the world. Heroic Bob West thwarts his plans.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Adaptation of the 12 chapter serial by Universal Pictures.
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Phantom Creeps Contest

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The Underpup

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Genres: drama
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Pages: 10
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Action Camera
First Line: Something must be done around here...
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Pages: 1
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Sun and Sand [Episodes 11-14]

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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, humorous
Feature(s): Minute Movies
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Pages: 4
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The Oregon Trail, Conclusion

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Genres: western
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Pages: 3
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): All-American Comics
Character(s): Gary Concord, the Ultra-Man
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A Bike for You

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Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Cromwell-Collier Publishing Company
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Mutiny on the Black Hawk

Photo Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
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Pages: 8
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A Chump at Oxford

Photo Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Stan Laurel; Oliver Hardy
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Pages: 4
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Johnson Smith & Co.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Daisy Air Rifles
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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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