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Issue: Soldiers of Fortune #1

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Publication Date: March 1951

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Issues: #1 of 12 Issues

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Publisher: Flag

American Comics Group

Brand: American Comics Group ACG

Indicia Publisher: Creston Publications Corp.

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: none

Pages: 52

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

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Content Items: 9 (8 stories, 1 cover)

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Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Silver Age US

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

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Content Items (9 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

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Genres: adventure

Feature(s): Captain Crossbones

Character(s): Captain Crossbones

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Pages: 1

Meet Ace Carter

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Genres: adventure, jungle

Feature(s): Ace Carter Adventurer

Character(s): Ace Carter; Miss Ellen Prescott; Bruce; Professor Anthony Prescott (Flashback)

Synopsis: Ellen Prescott hires Ace Carter to lead her to a place in the jungle where her father had located a diamond necklace.

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Pages: 10

A Mission for the General

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Genres: adventure

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Pages: 1

Captain Crossbones -- Soldier of Fortune

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Genres: adventure, historical

Feature(s): Captain Crossbones

Character(s): Captain Crossbones [Tom Rutherford]; Captain Smithers; Alf; Blackhand (Pirate); Duke; Lady Nancy Terrence

Synopsis: Tom runs away and stows on a ship as a youngster. He is eventually captured by pirates, where he grows to adulthood. When the captain captures Lady Nancy Terrence, Tom kills him and becomes Captain Crossbones.

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Pages: 12

Notes: Origin of Captain Crossbones.

The Sioux Massacres

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Genres: informational, non-fiction, western

Character(s): Jim Bridger; Colonel Fetterman; Red Cloud

Synopsis: The story of the Fetterman Massacre and the reprisal by the U.S. Calvary.

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Pages: 2

Notes: Based on true events.

The faces with many thin inklines on page one, and the inklines on cheeks in sideview, and peculiar lines inside ear in second panel on page two, are signs of Moritz.

Gamble against Odds

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Genres: adventure

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Pages: 1

Richard Burton, alias Ruffian Dick

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Genres: adventure

Feature(s): True Soldiers of Fortune

Character(s): Richard Burton; Isabel Arundel; Grand Emir of Harar

Synopsis: The story of Richard Burton and his adventures, including being the first white man to see the sacred Moslem ceremonies in Mecca and discovering lake Tanganyika.

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Pages: 6

Galley Slaves

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The Man of a Thousand Faces!

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Genres: adventure

Feature(s): Lance Larson, Soldier Of Fortune

Character(s): Lance Larson; Midge; Atlas; Zortan; Alexi Ivanov

Synopsis: Lance Larson must stop some spies from stealing the secret behind Alexi Ivanov's new cosmic-ray powered weapon.

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Pages: 13

Notes: Originally credited to Edmond Good, like the "Sioux Massacre", even if the artwork is very different. The best to compare with is the Charles Sultan story in "Adventures Into the Unknown" #25. There the many close up faces in side view are identical both in layout and inking to this one. Some of the many smiling faces in close up, with heavy jaw and chin, especially in sideview on page 7 are very much like Paul Gustavson, except the inking, but with Sultan it all fits. Anyway, it is NOT Edmond Good. His faces are more rounded and with bright eyes and lips like Johnny Hazard.