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Issue: Thrilling Comics #2 (11) Public Domain
Publication Date: December 1940
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Issues: #2 (11) of 80 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagPines
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Better Publications, Inc.
On Sale Date: 10/17/1940
Volume: ?
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 13 (11 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Ned Pines [as N. L. Pines] (president)
Disclose Notes: Some info verified using a DCM scan (http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/)

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. 4.
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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 series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Alex Schomburg
Inker(s): Alex Schomburg
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Doc Strange
Character(s): Doc Strange [Professor Thomas Hugo Strange]
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Richard Hughes
Penciller(s): Alexander Kostuk
Inker(s): Alexander Kostuk
Colorist(s): Richard Hughes
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Doc Strange, America's Defender
Character(s): Dr. Strange [Professor Thomas Hugo Strange]; Virginia Thomson; The Leader [Robert Marsh] (villain); Andrazzi tribesmen (villains); Bundists (villains )
First Line: Spies Strike In A Deadly Raid At The Navy Yard !
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Pages: 12
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Richard Hughes ?
Penciller(s): Elmer Wexler
Inker(s): Elmer Wexler
Colorist(s): Richard Hughes ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Ghost, Master Magician
Character(s): Professor Fenton (villain)
First Line: The Ghost receives a visitor!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Nickie gets a call from his chief!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Richard Hughes ?
Penciller(s): Alexander Kostuk ?
Inker(s): Alexander Kostuk ?
Colorist(s): Richard Hughes ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Nickie Norton of the Secret Service
Character(s): Brill (villain, introduction, death)
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Pages: 7
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Major Volke, German aviation attache, confers...

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Elmer Wexler
Inker(s): Elmer Wexler
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Lone Eagle
Character(s): Major Volke (villain, introduction); Admiral Yonaki (introduction)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: story posits a German inciting Japanese (who are NOT quite portrayed as villains here!) to strike at Pearl Harbor...over a YEAR before it occurred in real life!
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Gee, Marcia--it's been awfully quiet lately!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Kin Platt [as Kin] (signed)
Inker(s): Kin Platt [as Kin] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Dan Duffy, College Athlete
Character(s): Jose Gonzales (villain, introduction)
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Pages: 7
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Dan Duffy]
Penciller(s): Kin Platt
Inker(s): Kin Platt
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Pigskin Pointers By Dan Duffy
First Line: So you kids wants some more football pointers, eh?
Synopsis: Dan Duffy teaches football fundamentals.
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Pages: 1
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Jimmy Gets the Rustlers!

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Sam Brant
Colorist(s): Sam Brant
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Koruba Diamond Case

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Richard Hughes ?
Penciller(s): George Mandel
Inker(s): George Mandel
Colorist(s): Richard Hughes ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Woman In Red
Character(s): Kroch (villain, introduction)
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Pages: 6
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Drastic news reaches the British intelligence!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Bertino?
Penciller(s): Leonard Sansone
Inker(s): Leonard Sansone
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Tom Niles, Undersea Raider
Character(s): Nazis (villains)
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Pages: 6
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Howdy Teter and his gang head for the sheriff's office at Gila Gulch.

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): John Daly
Inker(s): John Daly
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Rio Kid
Character(s): Howdy Teter (villain, introduction)
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Pages: 7
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Calling American Youth!

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Ned Pines ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Chats with the Editor
Synopsis: Promo for the "Thrilling Club". Coupon for survey of features and registration to "CASH PRIZE CONTEST".
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Ray McGill
Penciller(s): Ray McGill (signed)
Inker(s): Ray McGill (signed)
Colorist(s): Ray McGill
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Marco Polo Jones
First Line: Boss--dis next picture we is gonna shoot requires some very artistic scenery!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Racial stereotype.

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