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Issue: America's Best Comics #25

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Publication Date: February 1948

Issue #25
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- #24
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Issues: #25 of 31 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Pines

Brand: none

Indicia Publisher: Visual Editions Inc.

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: none

Pages: 52

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 10 (8 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Ned Pines

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Golden Age US

Paper Stock: newsprint

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing

Format Notes:

Reprinted In4

1 Content Item
- Cleopatra's Comb [Story on Interior Page(s)]0

reprinted as/ in another Issue.

2 Content Items
- [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]2
- Cleopatra's Comb [Story on Interior Page(s)]1

reprinted 3 times as Content Items in other Issues.

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Cover, Front

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Content Items (10 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Miss Masque [Diana Adams]; The Black Terror [Bob Benton] (in a crystal ball); The Fighting Yank [Bruce Carter III] (in a crystal ball)

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Good Girl Art Quarterly #10 published January 1992
as Miss Masque: Past, Present & Future! [Text Article on Interior Page(s)]black-and-white cover

In Content Item: Flag

Men of Mystery Spotlight #1 published January 2001
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

The Trail of Captain Blood

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure, historical

Character(s): The Sea Eagle [Sir Ronald Blake] (introduction); Katherine "Kit" Young (introduction); Jamaica (introduction); John Blood (villain, introduction, death); Peg-Leg (villain, introduction, death)

First Line: In the seventeenth century...

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 10

Notes: Next appearance in STARTLING COMICS #50

Night Messenger

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Penciller(s): ? (spot illustration)

Inker(s): ? (spot illustration)

Colorist(s): ? (spot illustration)

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure

Character(s): Harry Collins; State Trooper Morgan

First Line: Scout Harry Collins was on an overnight hike...

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Job Number: D 208

The Musical Monkey Murders!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): The Terror Twins [The Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Tim Roland]; Jean Starr; Tongo (a monkey, introduction); Jim (Police Department fingerprint man), introduction); Neilson (villain, introduction); Carl Dawkins (villain, introduction); Wally (villain, introduction)

First Line: How can murder strike behind locked doors...

Synopsis: Reminded by Tim that today was Jean's birthday, Bob decides to stop at a greenhouse and get her some flowers. A chance run-in with some gangsters at the greenhouse ties in with several murders of prominent people who were found dead in their locked homes.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 11

Notes: Art credits by Mark Heike.

Woodland Adventure

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Character(s): Philip Green; Whitey Nason; Jim

First Line: Boy Scout Philip Green whooped...

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Text story with Illustration

The Case of the Honest Crooks

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): The Fighting Yank [Bruce Carter III]; Seedy (villain, introduction, death); Monty (crook); Gwendolyn Vandenberg; the ghost of Bruce Carter I

First Line: When a man has gone wrong...

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Pages: 11

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

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Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Sporty

First Line: Oh, boy!

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 0.67

Job Number: AC-873

[untitled]

Statement of Ownership on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): H. L. Herbert (business manager)

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: non-fiction

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 0.33

Trailblazer

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Penciller(s): ? (spot illustration)

Inker(s): ? (spot illustration)

Colorist(s): ? (spot illustration)

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: western

Character(s): George Lincoln; Jackson (crook); Cullen (crook)

First Line: There was plenty of activity at the Bar L...

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Cleopatra's Comb

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Miss Masque [Diana Adams]; Aunt Beth (Diana's aunt); Detective Benson (death); Russ Bowman (reporter); un-named museum caretaker (villain)

First Line: Mysterious as the night...

Synopsis: The caretaker of an Egytian museum commits murder and more in order to put away the infidel dogs who have desecrated the memory of Cleopatra.

Reprinting

In Issue:

Miss Masque Strikes Back! #1 published August 2011in black & white

In Content Item: Flag

Golden-Age Greats #6 published January 1995
as Cleopatra's Comb! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 10

Notes: The Who's Who does NOT credit Gattuso with any work at Nedor/Standard. Bill Black credits the art for this story to Bob Oksner with Lin Streeter. The Who's Who credits Oksner art only in 1945 and Streeter in 1946-47.