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Issue: Exciting Comics #69 Public Domain
Publication Date: September 1949
 
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagPines
Brand: Standard ComicsView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Better Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 7 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Ned Pines ?
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover, newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing
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reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue.
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 

Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
?
Subject Matter
western
Billy West
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
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The Deadly Dude!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
adventure, western
Billy West; Eagle (horse); Molly Sage; Uncle Dan; Snubby; Julie; Dude Johnson
A dude riding a huge bicycle comes to town, and shortly after a masked bandit begins to rob and kill.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
9
B-581
Next app. in BILLY WEST #4.

The faces reveal this to be Celardo, long chin and marked jawbone, faces in profiles, etc.
The King of the Toys!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
Subject Matter
adventure, jungle
Judy of the Jungle; "Pop" Gardner (trader); Bedlow (crook); Van Elston; Transom (crook); Pistol Roberts
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
9
B-565
Last Golden Age appearance. Next appearance in Hack/Slash/ The Series #29.
Swahili Medicine Man

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
typeset
Subject Matter
adventure, jungle
Judy of the Jungle; Pistol Roberts; Mbonga; Selonga
Judy of the Jungle and Pistol Roberts were finding things rather calm...
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
2
B-609
The illustrations on the text story in issue #68 are identical to these, and credited to Art Saaf, who is also credited on Judy of the Jungle by Jerry Bails' Who's Who.
On the Town!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous, teen
Speedy Hopper (introduction)
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
5
B-447
Next appearance in Kathy (Pines, 1949 Series) #2
The Kid Plays a Lone Hand!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Tim Mason [Kid Terror]; Janet; Madame Zubar; Bob Benton
The Black Terror was dead...so ran the story!
Reprinting
FlagMen of Mystery Comics #40 published April 2003
as The Kid Plays a Lone Hand [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
5
B-568
Last appearance until revival in THE BLACK TERROR #1 (Eclipse, 1989 series)

Tuska is credited on Black Terror by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and can often be mixed up with Morisi, but the lines inside the ears are different.

Bob Benton, alias The Black Terror, appears in the final two panels but not in costume. His ward is renamed from Tim Roland to Tim Mason here.
Man's First Boat

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
Subject Matter
historical
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
2
BF-278
Art identification by Saltarella.

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