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Issue: Master Comics #2 Public Domain
Publication Date: April 1940
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Issues: #2 of 133 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagFawcett
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Fawcett Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 03/15/1940
Volume: 1
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 19 (11 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On sale date from the publication date and the volume number found at the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, 1940, Number 2. Class B periodical. Copyright number B 449662.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: 10.5" x 14" (#1-6); standard Golden Age U.S. (#7-133)
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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World's Biggest Comics Book

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): White Rajah (vignette); Devil's Dagger (vignette); Frontier Marshall [Bill Crane] (vignette); El Carim (vignette)
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Pages: 1
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Hey, Pals!

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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]
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Disclose Notes: Inside front cover. Indicia at the bottom of the page.

Promotional advertisement for the Captain Marvel Power Siren.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): King Adolfuss; General Himmler; unnamed Adolfusstan pilot; unnamed Adolfusstan soldiers; unnamed peasant
First Line: Master Man, world's greatest hero tests his might against the world's greatest scourge: war!
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Last panel on last page is a small promo for Slam-Bang Comics (Fawcett, 1940 series).
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White Rajah and the Lost Mummy

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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, jungle
Character(s): White Rajah [David Scott]; Sin-Gee; Kelsey; Schwartz; unnamed Wulu natives; Wulu chief; Veego Chief
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Pages: 4
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Devil's Dagger [Ken Wyman]; Burton; Bonanza Bill; Morton Wyman (Ken's father); Sandra Cole; Pat Gleason; Jeff Marlowe (villain); Marlowe's gang
First Line: In the newsroom of the Carterville Daily Blade, Burton, the city editor...
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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Morton Murch; Queen Silva; Malabad pilots
First Line: In the home-made balloon which was the laughing stock...
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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Shipwreck Roberts; Chief; Deep Sea Doodle; unnamed ship's captain; Doctor Drown (villain); Romez; unnamed foreign spies
First Line: Shipwreck Roberts, courageous diver, believes Dr. Brown...
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Genres: western
Character(s): Frontier Marshall [Bill Crane]; Helen Wright; Mac; Mesquite Mike; two cattlemen [Hank (named)]; Jim Trask; Whipple
First Line: Jim Trask, gang boss of Big Savage...
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Lost But Found

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Inker(s): ? (illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: adventure
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Feature(s): Master Puzzlers
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Answers found on page 48.
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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Eli Samuel Parker
First Line: In 1883, a toll of one cent was charged to walk across Brooklyn Bridge!
Synopsis: Several trivia vignette cartoons.
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Disclose Notes: Similar to Ripley's Believe It or Not!
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Genres: mystery
Character(s): Mr. Clue; J. Gould Parkhurst; Alaric (chauffeur); Abu (butler)
First Line: It only takes one clue!
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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Streak Sloan; Jerry Brant; unnamed train engineer; Ned Jackson
First Line: Streak Sloan, resting up in Alaska following a strenuous assignment, receives...
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Master of Magic and the Jewel Thieves

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Genres: horror, occult, superhero
Character(s): El Carim; J. Grigcby Duncan; Count Solferino; Solferino's gang; unnamed police officer; unnamed judge
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Rick O'Shay; Mekki; Major Cambon; Matt Morgan; Morgan's henchmen; Rick's soldiers
First Line: Rick O'Shay, two fisted American soldier of fortune no sooner cleans up an Arab revolt...
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Pages: 6.8
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Captain Marvel Power Siren Certificate No. 1

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.08
Disclose Notes: At the bottom of the last page of the Rick O'Shay story.

Redeemable coupon used to help obtain the Captain Marvel Power Siren.
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Answers to Master Puzzlers on Page 29

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (puzzles)
Inker(s): ? (puzzles)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
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Pages: 0.12
Disclose Notes: At the bottom of the last page of the Rick O'Shay story.

Answers to Master Puzzlers on page 29.
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? (promo copy)
Penciller(s): ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ? (photograph)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Gene Autry (photograph); Jane Withers (photograph)
First Line: It's a wizeroo!
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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.

Promotional advertisement for Whiz Comics (Fawcett, 1940 series). The promotion was a photograph of Gene Autry with his guitar and Jane Withers reading a copy of Whiz Comics #3 (March 1940) while on the set of the Twentieth Century-Fox's movie, Shooting High.
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Boys! Boys! Boys!

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

Advertisement for Mechanix Illustrated magazine.

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