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Issue: Young King Cole #12

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Publication Date: July 1948

Issue v3 #12
- v3 #2
- v3 #3
- v3 #4
- v3 #5
- v3 #6
- v3 #7
- v3 #8
- v3 #9
- v3 #10
- v3 #11
- ✔ v3 #12
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Issues: #12 of 23 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Novelty / Premium / Curtis

Brand: none

Indicia Publisher: The Premium Group of Comics

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: 3

Pages: 52

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 12 (8 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Robert D. Wheeler; Katharine Urban (story editor); Mel Cummin (art advisor)

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Format

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

Format Notes:

Reprinted In2

2 Content Items
- Time Will Tell [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]1
- The Case of the Murdered Gangster [Story on Interior Page(s)]1

reprinted 2 times as Content Items in other Issues.

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Cover, Front

Original Artwork

Digital Edition

Adult Image

Title Page

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Content Items (12 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): A. McWilliams (signed)

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Young King Cole

Character(s): Young King Cole

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

[untitled]

Letters Page on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): editors and readers

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Cole Clues

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: this is the inside-front cover

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: mystery

Character(s): Young King Cole; Iris Norland; Whip Steele; Burke Kelley; Ursus Graham; John Barton; Sloppy John

First Line: When Young King Cole clashes with a gang of smugglers, the result is flareguns and fireworks!

Synopsis: Deported criminals are smuggled back into the United States hidden in fish barrels.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 12

Notes: The art is very similar to the McWilliams-signed cover and his signed story in Airboy (Hillman, 1945 series) #3.

[untitled]

Cartoon on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Milt Hammer

Penciller(s): Milt Hammer (signed)

Inker(s): Milt Hammer (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: childrens, humorous

First Line: I'm your friend - I'll stick to you...

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: No title or 'feature'

Plant Me Now and Dig Me Later!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): JCA (signed)

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Inspector Klooz

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Time Will Tell

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Character(s): Mike Ryan (police officer; becomes detective)

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Crime Fighting Detective #14 published March 1951
as Time Will Tell [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

The Case of the Mute Mountain Lions

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): Joe Certa

Colorist(s): Joe Certa

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Dr. Drew the Zoo Man

Character(s): Dr. Whisper Drew; Mikko (monkey); Snoupe (partner); Zan (partner); Larry Flint (crooked rancher); Lone Hawk

Synopsis: Dr. Drew has been sent for by the Cattlemen's Association to catch a band of mountain lions who have been killing cattle.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

Notes: Art identical to the "Dr. Drew the Zoo Man" story in issue #v3 #10 of "Young King Cole" credited to Certa.

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Art Helfant

Penciller(s): Art Helfant (signed)

Inker(s): Art Helfant (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Heathcliff the Hobo

First Line: Say, can I get under that umbrella?

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

[untitled]

Cartoon on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Milt Hammer

Penciller(s): Milt Hammer (signed)

Inker(s): Milt Hammer (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: childrens, humorous

First Line: If you're so smart - how would you...

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: no 'feature' or title

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Character(s): Toni Gayle; Biff Muggson; Chick; Mary Lake; Hal Brown; Brock; Allen

First Line: A modeling job in Redstone Park, that treasury of natural wonders, leads Toni into perils that would have made even the hardest pioneer women blanch with fear!

Synopsis: An actress is killed for real when the TV show is on the air. It is a frame up to get hold of certain blackmail papers.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

Notes: Pete Riss is spotted by his tapering faces with eyes far apart.

Inker could be Valleau.

The Case of the Murdered Gangster

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Will Hammell (signed)

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Larry Broderick, Detective

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Crime Fighting Detective #14 published March 1951
as The Case of the Murdered Gangster [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Art Helfant

Penciller(s): Art Helfant (signed)

Inker(s): Art Helfant (signed)

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Boitram the Boiglar

First Line: So!

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: This is the inside-back cover