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Issue: Fantastic Comics #20 Public Domain
Publication Date: July 1941
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Issues: #20 of 23 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagFox
Brand: A Fox Feature Comic FPView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Fox Publications, Inc.
On Sale Date: 05/09/1941
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 10 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Victor Fox
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1941, New Series, Vol. 36, 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
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Alex Blum
Inker(s): Alex Blum
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Samson
Character(s): Samson
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Stolen Battleship Plans

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Robert Kanigher ? [as Alex Boon] (credited)
Penciller(s): Al Carreno
Inker(s): Al Carreno
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Samson and David
Character(s): Samson; David; Letty Hale (introduction); Franz Mann (villain, Nazi Bund leader, introduction); Ingrid (villain, introduction); other Nazi spies (villains, introduction for all, some die)
Synopsis: Samson and David look into the theft of stolen battleship plans by a Nazi Bund.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMen of Mystery Comics #29 published January 2001
as The Stolen Battleship Plans [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Disclose Notes: Script credit suggested by the Who's Who.

Alex Boon was a by-line used by Fox Publications.

Art revision from Blum to Carreno by Mark Heike, added by Craig Delich, from reprint.
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Lucifer's Plot against the Earth

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? [as Orville Wells](credited)
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Flip Falcon
Character(s): Lord Lucifer (villain)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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The Space Insurance Racket

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): John W. Fawcett ?
Penciller(s): ? [as Hank Christy] (signed)
Inker(s): ? [as Hank Christy] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Space Smith
Character(s): John Sheridan (villain, introduction)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: The Courier-News of Bridgewater, New Jersey, had a filler article printed on Monday, February 21, 1944 (page 6) which talks about U.S. Army Air Corps Technical Sergeant John W. Fawcett awaiting his next assignment after taking part in 25 bomber missions over Europe. It mentions that before he joined, he wrote Space Smith. Exact stories at this time are not known. Article provided by Steven Thompson and posted to the Comics History Exchange page on Facebook (25 December 2016).
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Thriller in Manila

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Dennis Neville
Inker(s): Dennis Neville
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Yank Wilson
Character(s): General Yako (villain, introduction)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Voyage to Planet Zutar

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Grieg Chapian
Inker(s): Grieg Chapian
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Golden Knight
Character(s): Tyrno (villain, introduction, death); Ulka (introduction); Zutarians (introduction)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: next app. in THE EAGLE #2
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Fury at Dunkerque

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Nathaniel Nitkin (N. N. Nitkin)
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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The Kali Cult

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bill Bossert
Inker(s): Bill Bossert
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Captain Kidd
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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The Fang and the Fortune

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Dennis Neville (Mark Howell)
Inker(s): Dennis Neville
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Black Fury
Character(s): The Fang (villain)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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The Diamonds of Wah-Lama

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (Karl Kief)
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Sub Saunders
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6

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