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Issue: Sensation Comics #85
Publication Date: January 1949
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Issues: #85 of 109 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: A Superman DC PublicationView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: National Comics Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/17/1948
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 19 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from copyright registration.
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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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The Girl Who Wanted to Be an Amazon!

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Genres: superhero
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Pages: 1
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Kodak
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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The Girl Who Wanted to Be an Amazon!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): the Holliday Girls; Leslie M. Gresham (wealthy financier, introduction); Mrs. Gresham (introduction); Leslie M. Gresham, Jr. (the Gresham's daughter, introduction); Dr. Thomas (Mr. Gresham's doctor, introduction); a group of miners (introduction for all)
First Line: Leslie Graham's father was one of the richest men in the world!
Synopsis: Financier Gresham raises his daughter to be a boy, so he won't let her accept a scholarship to Holliday College until Wonder Woman intervenes.
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Pages: 12
Job Number: SEN 93
Disclose Notes: Writer credit from The Secret History of Wonder Woman (Jill Lapore, 2014); formerly credited to Robert Kanigher.
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Henry Iba

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Feature(s): Wheaties
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Pages: 1
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Feature(s): Star Spangled Comics; Flash Comics; Action Comics
First Line: For thrills...
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Pages: 1
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The Dead Man's Chest!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Lady Danger [Valerie Vaughn]; Captain Jack Owens; Ann Owens; Lyle Baker (villain); Groot; Gary Grath; Krondarg
First Line: Lady Danger fights sea pirates!
Synopsis: Valerie witnesses a sailor almost killed in a hit-and-run and then discovers that he had supposedly died a year earlier.
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In Content Item: FlagSuperman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #119 published February 1972
as The Dead Man's Chest! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSuper Adventure Comic #55 published August 1973
as The Dead Man's Chest! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Kanigher credit per his bio info as published in Robin Snyder's The Comics #8, August 2001.

According to the date on the newspaper in the splash panel, this story takes place November 19, 1948.
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Gets the Bird!

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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Bazooka the Atom Bubble Boy
Character(s): Bazooka
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous, teen
Feature(s): Willy Nilly
Character(s): Willy Nilly; Betty
First Line: Five bucks for a dance! We're not going Betty!
Synopsis: When Willy declares he doesn't have five dollars for the upcoming dance, Betty offers to pay. Willy is so incensed at this suggestion he storms off. Betty concocts an elaborate scheme to get Willy to 'find' five dollars in a public locker, but instead of buying dance tickets he spends it on a hand-painted tie.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: OH32
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Feature(s): Schwinn
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Editorial Advisory Board

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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Adventures of Nip & Tuck; Smith Brothers Cough Drops
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Anna Pavlova

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Genres: biography
Character(s): Anna Pavlova; her mother; Maestro
Synopsis: Incidents in the life and career of acclaimed ballet dancer Anna Pavlova.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: W.W.45
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Mystery Mine's Treasure

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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Ray-o-Vac
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

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Genres: informational, non-fiction
First Line: The poor little shrimp is the most unfortunate...
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Disclose Notes: Four unrelated gag panels.
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Winged Wheels

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: non-fiction
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Pages: 2
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The Secret Mine!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Wildcat [Ted Grant]; Gold Valley Gus; Whitey Dorr (villain)
First Line: Stop him, somebody...
Synopsis: Whitey Door tries to steal Gold Valley Gus' gold mine, but has reckoned without the interference of Wildcat.
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Pages: 7
Job Number: SEN 89
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Feature(s): Thom McAn
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Feature(s): National Radio Institute
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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Feature(s): Daisy Air Rifles
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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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