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Issue: Shadow Comics #4 [4]

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Publication Date: June 1940

Issue v1 #4 [4]
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- v1 #2 [2]
- v1 #3 [3]
- ✔ v1 #4 [4]
- v1 #5 [5]
- v1 #6 [6]
- v1 #7 [7]
- v1 #8 [8]
- v1 #9 [9]
- v1 #10 [10]
- v1 #11 [11]
- v1 #12 [12]
- v2 #2 (v2#1) [13]
- v2 #2 [14]
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Issues: #4 [4] of 101 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Street and Smith

Brand: none

Indicia Publisher: Street and Smith

On Sale Date: 04/26/1940

Volume: 1

Pages: 68

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 12 (10 stories, 1 cover)

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Notes: On sale date from the publication date found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, 1940, Number 2. Class B periodicals. Copyright number B 452737.

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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

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Genres: adventure

Character(s): Iron Munro (inset); Horatio Alger (inset); The Avenger (inset); Bill Barnes (inset)

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Reprint Notes: from The Shadow Magazine (Street and Smith, 1932 series) v18#1 (103) (June 1, 1936)

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Pages: 1

With the Editor

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 1

Notes: Editorial.

More Gem Robberies

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Genres: adventure

Character(s): Chipmunk (villain, introduction); Beak Thungle (villain, introduction); Squint (villain, introduction); Zovex (villain, introduction)

First Line: Yeah, this is Chipmunk…

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Pages: 8

Notes: Adapted from the story "The Crime Oracle" in The Shadow Magazine (Street and Smith, 1932 series) v18#1 (103) (June 1, 1936) by Walter Gibson [as Maxwell Grant].

Rough and Ready

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Genres: drama

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Pages: 6

Notes: Adapted from a story by Horatio Alger.

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Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Iron Munro; Spencer Carlisle; the Magyans; the Tefflans (villains)

First Line: Hurled into another universe through a warp in space...

Synopsis: Iron Munro and Spencer head to Teff-el to confront the Tefflans, who have stolen valuable data plates that will tell the duo how to return to Earth, and aid the Magyans in the process to wipe out the enemy.

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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.

Case of the 'Frosted Death'

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Genres: adventure, superhero

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Pages: 8

Notes: Continued in next issue.

Murder in Uniform

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Genres: crime

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Pages: 2

Notes: Illustrated text story.

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Genres: adventure, historical

First Line: One morning in April 1625 finds the little town...

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Pages: 8

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Genres: adventure, aviation

First Line: Strange mysteries surround airliners flying over the Brazilian jungles.

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Pages: 6

Frank Merriwell's Vacation

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Genres: adventure

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Pages: 5

Notes: The character next appears in Frank Merriwell at Yale (Charlton, 1955 series) #1 (June 1955).

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Genres: mystery

Character(s): Elaine Warlin; Mr. Warlin; Officer Ryan; unnamed district attorney; unnamed crooks

First Line: Midnight---

Synopsis: Nick becomes a target of gangsters as he tries to solve a kidnapping case.

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Pages: 7

Who Was High Jack?

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Genres: mystery

Character(s): Richard Kenmore (vllain); Drucker (villain); Saldo (villain)

Synopsis: Carrie and Aleck go after a robbery gang led by the mystery man High Jack.

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Pages: 6