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Issue: Shadow Comics #2 [2]

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Publication Date: February 1940

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Issues: #2 [2] of 101 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

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Publisher: Flag

Street and Smith

Brand: none

Indicia Publisher: Street & Smith Publications Inc.

On Sale Date: 02/21/1940

Volume: 1

Pages: 68

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

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Content Items: 12 (11 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s):

Notes: 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 445637.

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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 (12 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

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) v5#6 (May 15, 1933)

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Pages: 1

Robberies Baffle Police

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Subject Matter

Genres: adventure, crime, mystery, superhero

Character(s): James Wendrew (villain, introduction, death); Albert Forr (villain, introduction)

First Line: These reports worry me, Commissioner.

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Reprint Notes: from The Shadow daily (Ledger Syndicate) 194X-XX-XX - 194X-XX-XX ?

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Pages: 5

The Yellow Hoard

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ? (adaptation)

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Subject Matter

Genres: mystery

Character(s): The Avenger [Richard Benson] (introduction, origin in recap); Fergus MacMurdie (introduction); Smitty (introduction); Nellie Grey (introduction); Professor Grey (Nellie's father; introduction; death); Borg (villain, introduction, death); Olin Chandler (villain, introduction, death)

First Line: Dad! At it again?

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Pages: 8

Notes: Adapted from the Avenger story "The Yellow Hoard" from The Avenger (Street and Smith, 1939 series) #2 (October 1, 1939) pulp magazine written by Paul Ernst [as Kenneth Robeson].

[untitled]

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Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

First Line: Iron! Can't we send a beam to that sun for power?

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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.
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Written in Blood

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Subject Matter

Genres: mystery

Character(s): Limpy (death); Legs (villain); Spike (villain); Dagger Dan (villain); Little Gerano (villain, death)

Synopsis: A clue from a murdered friend leads Nick to the guilty party.

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Pages: 5

Frank Merriwell at College

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Genres: adventure

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Pages: 5

[untitled]

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Subject Matter

Genres: adventure

Character(s): Cap Fury [John Fury] (introduction, next appearance in Army and Navy Comics (Street and Smith, 1941 series) #1 (May 1941))

First Line: While Captain Fury is at Kane's home...

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Pages: 5

[untitled]

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Subject Matter

Genres: aviation

Character(s): Bill Barnes; Yellow-Jackets (villains)

First Line: Bill Barnes invoked the animosity of the Yellow-Jackets...

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Pages: 5

The Sheriff's Stolen Boots

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Genres: western

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Pages: 5

The Crimson Serpent

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ? (adaptation)

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Subject Matter

Genres: adventure

Character(s): Engineer Bill Craig; Monk; Joe (villain); Fletcher Carter (villain); Consuelo Manrosa

First Line: Death stalks the Arkansas swamp...

Synopsis: Doc, Monk and Ham expose and dismantle a criminal gang operating out of an old castle in a swamp in Arkansas.

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Pages: 8

Notes: Adapted from the Doc Savage story "The Crimson Serpent" from Doc Savage (Street and Smith, series) v13#6, (August 1939) by Kenneth Robeson [Harold A. Davis and Lester Dent].

[untitled]

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Genres: humorous

First Line: Yes, Ronny, it's a leap-year party...

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Pages: 2

Notes: Greene's full name Vernon Van Atta Greene, and he is known to have worked for Street and Smith during this period.

Mark the Match Boy

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ? (adaptation)

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Subject Matter

Genres: drama

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Pages: 8

Notes: Adapted from a story by Horatio Alger, Jr.