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Issue: Shadow Comics #1 [1]

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Publication Date: January 1940

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Issues: #1 [1] of 101 Issues

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Publisher: Flag

Street and Smith

Brand: none

Indicia Publisher: Street & Smith Publications Inc.

On Sale Date: 01/12/1940

Volume: 1

Pages: 68

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 14 (11 stories, 1 cover)

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Notes: All characters in early issues are taken from Street & Smith pulps.

On sale date from the publication date found at the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, January-December 1940, Numbers 1-4. Class B periodical. Copyright number B 441721.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

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Content Items (14 total)

All New Comics

Illustration on Cover, Front

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Subject Matter

Genres: adventure, superhero

Character(s): Iron Munro (inset); Bill Barnes (inset)

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Reprint Notes: from The Shadow Magazine (Street & Smith, 1931 series) v1#18 (November 15, 1932)

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Genres: adventure, superhero

First Line: I am convinced that the catastrophes that have occurred in...

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Pages: 6

Notes: Will Murray, expert on Walter B. Gibson and the Shadow, states that Gibson did not write this story or other stories in this issue.

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Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Iron Munro (introduction)

First Line: In 2093 A.D., an expedition, sent out in a space ship to colonize Ganynede...

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Pages: 6

Notes: The Iron Munro comic stories were inspired/based on editor John W. Campbell's Arn Munro short stories in the ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION pulp.

Twirling Digits

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Genres: crime

Character(s): Dan Dugan

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Pages: 3

Notes: First 2 pages appear here, and it continues at the back of the comic.

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Genres: adventure

Character(s): Van Guyter (villain); Mary Fuller; unnamed native chief

First Line: Doc Savage is a remarkable man. Not only is he a scientist...

Synopsis: Doc and Monk prevent a foreign agent from supplying guns to African tribesman and inciting them to rise up against the current colonial powers.

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Pages: 6

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Genres: adventure

First Line: I've seen it I tell you -- he can't be tackled!

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Pages: 5

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Genres: mystery

Character(s): Monica Marlowe; Ben Ward (villain); Dane

First Line: Monica Marlowe, famous Hollywood star, receives a threatening...

Synopsis: Carrie and her partner Aleck take on movie star Monica Marlowe's case in which her ex-husband Dane is threatening her not to press for custody of their son.

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Pages: 4

Notes: Famous female detective.

The Six Rings of Death

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Genres: mystery

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Pages: 8

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Genres: adventure

First Line: Listen, fellows! I've great news for you!

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Pages: 3

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Genres: western

Character(s): Diamond Dick (U.S. Government Indian Scout; introduction, only appearance); General Custer; Jake Bigley (villain)

First Line: Sergeant Drew and two soldiers were taking some army horses...

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Bob Burton and the Ranch Mystery

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Genres: adventure, western

Character(s): Bob Burton

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Pages: 7

Notes: Apparently based on the book "Bob Burton, or The Young Ranchman of the Missouri" (Porter and Coates, 1888 series).

Mark the Match Boy

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Genres: adventure

Synopsis: This is preview of page 1 of the next issue's Horatio Alger story, with a 'coming next issue' blurb superimposed.

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Genres: adventure, aviation

Character(s): Bill Barnes (introduction)

First Line: That's queer, Bill. Here's an S-O-S, but it's addressed to you...

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Pages: 7

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Genres: non-fiction, sports

Character(s): Joe DiMaggio; Terry Moore; Whilton Williams

First Line: Joe DiMaggio - the Yankee Clipper hit a triple in his first...

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Pages: 1