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Issue: Shadow Comics #5 [5]
Publication Date: July 1940
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Issues: #5 [5] of 101 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagStreet and Smith
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Street and Smith
On Sale Date: 05/31/1940
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 13 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1940, New Series, Vol. 35, No. 3.
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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
Format Notes:  
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Horatio Alger (inset); Iron Munro (inset)
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In Content Item: FlagO Lobinho (2ª Série) #16 published August 1941
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes: from The Shadow Magazine (Street and Smith, 1932 series) v17#3 (99) (April 1, 1936)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Editor's Page

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Tompkins (introduction); Salamanders [Huxley Drune (villain, introduction)]
First Line: A tremendous fire, fourth of such mighty blazes...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Adapted from The Shadow story "The Salamanders" which appeared in The Shadow Magazine (Street and Smith, 1932 series) v17#3 (99) (April 1, 1936) by William Gibson [as Maxwell Grant].
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Brave and Bold

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: historical
First Line: D'Artagnan, no sooner arrived in Paris than circumstances led to a duel...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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The Talking Toad

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ?
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): June Davis; Patrick O'Reilly (villain); unnamed police commissioner
Synopsis: Inventor and private investigator Click Rush is surprised to find a large steel toad figure in his office. He soon realizes it is a radio transmitter and shortly hears an offer from the mysterious voice identifying itself as "Bufa", who offers him half of a $10,000 fee to solve a case of gold smuggling. After successfully wrapping up the case and getting praise from his friend the police commissioner, he again talks with Bufa, who offers him a partnership to go after the city's criminals, splitting the contract money between them.
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Pages: 7
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: Iron Munro of Jupiter and Spencer Carlyle, rich young shipowner...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose 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.
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The Gate to Death

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Buddy Altmeyer (villain, introduction); Slug (villain, introduction); unnamed sheriff
Synopsis: While on vacation Nick Carter brings down a gang of counterfeiters.
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Pages: 5
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The Avenger Tracks Down the Demon Who Shocked the World With His "Frozen Death" Powder

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, superhero
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Continued from last issue.
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Maureen O'Hara

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Feature(s): Screen Scrapbook
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Portraits and text items on Maureen O'Hara, Donald Crisp, Lana Turner, and the Disney Pinocchio film.
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Terror Island

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Mark Patten; Bruce Stoker; Marjorie Cullen (aka Flip); Porky
Synopsis: What starts out as a case of stolen paintings for Carrie and Aleck leads to the recovery of a stolen shipment of British gold bars.
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Pages: 7
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, aviation
First Line: Bill Barnes and his pal, Shorty, enter the air races...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Time and Place

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Illustrated text story.

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