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Issue: Shadow Comics #6 [6]
Publication Date: August 1940
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Issues: #6 [6] of 101 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagStreet and Smith
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Street and Smith
On Sale Date: 06/28/1940
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 12 (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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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from The Shadow Magazine (Street and Smith, 1932 series) v13#3 (75) (April 1, 1935)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Editor's Page

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Czar of Crime

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Rook Hollister (villain); Prexy (villain)
Synopsis: The Shadow disguises himself to go up against crime boss Rook Hollister and his whole gang.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: The title is from the cover.

This story is adapted from the story "Lingo" appearing in The Shadow Magazine (Street and Smith, 1932 series) v13#3 (75) (April 1, 1935) written by Walter Gibson [as Maxwell Grant].
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Robert Coverdale's Pluck and Luck

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

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: historical
First Line: D'Artagnan, alone, reached port in the effort to get to England...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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The Tale of the Itching Men

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Valerie Enterline; Gonzales Santiero (villain); John Noble
Synopsis: Receiving his next case from Bufa through the Talking Toad, Click saves a man about to be falsely executed for murder.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: last appearance
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, superhero
First Line: During a meeting of the chamber of commerce...
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Character's next appearance was in Army and Navy Comics (Street and Smith, 1941 series) #3 (December 1941).
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Owlhooter's Revenge

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: An illustrated text story.
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The Gilford Mystery

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Mayor Caliston; Mayor Marlin (villain); Slug (villain); Sam (villain)
Synopsis: With help from brother and assistant Chick, Nick brings down a kidnapping ring in the town of Gilford.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagO Lobinho (2ª Série) #16 published August 1941
as Os Raptos Misteriosos [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Death Lights a Candle

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Harley Dixon (villain); Inspector Berrigan; Horace Duncan (death); Brentwood
Synopsis: Aleck, assisted by Carrie, solves a bank robbery case where poisoned candles are used in the killing of witnesses.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagO Lobinho (2ª Série) #16 published August 1941
as As Velas da Morte [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Iron Munroe; Spencer Carlisle; Andarminot; the Tefflens (villains, many die); Tefflen leaders (villains)
First Line: Iron Munro and Spencer Carlyle are hurled into another universe...
Synopsis: Iron and Andarminot plan to hollow out and equip each moon of Magya with Munro's Aggie Coils, then they will be hurled at the enemy planet of Teff-el. Munro and his fleet will engage the Teff-el fleet and destroy them, then have his ships encircle Teff-el and destroy its ground forces. But the Tefflen leadership pulls a surprise on Munro.
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Reprint Notes: in The Shadow (Sanctum Books, 2006 series) Volume 104 (February 2016) [In black and white.]
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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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, aviation
First Line: Marianna Norris, famous aviatrix, disappears over the thick Brazilian jungles.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Bill Barnes appears next in Bill Barnes Comics (Street and Smith, 1940 series) #v1#1 ([July 26] 1941]).

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