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Issue: Clue Comics #2 [2] Public Domain
Publication Date: February 1943
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Issues: #2 [2] of 15 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagHillman
Brand: A Hillman PublicationView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Hillman Periodicals, Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 9 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Ed Cronin
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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
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): The Boy King
Character(s): The Boy King [King David]
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Pages: 1
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A Leader Against Crime!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Dan Barry
Inker(s): Dan Barry
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Boy King
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Pages: 15
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The Upside-Down Town

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Al Mandel [as Mandel] (signed)
Inker(s): Dan Barry [as Barry] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Nightmare and Sleepy
Character(s): Nightmare [Bob White] (wrestler); Sleepy [Terry Wake] (White's kid manager); Hack (newspaper Editor); un-named Botanist (death); Homer; Professor Froott (villain); an un-named cook (villain)
Synopsis: Bob and Terry enter Sunnytown and go to see the town's newspaper editor to see about getting some matches lined up, when a professor runs in and asks the editor to warn the residents that Sunnytown's gravity is disappearing! When Nightmare and Sleepy investigate, they discover, as the professor warned, that people would be doubled up and/or walking on their hands. Nightmare finally discovers that the professor and a cook are responsible for the mess, wanting to drive the citizens out of town and confiscate their property!
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Tony DiPreta
Penciller(s): Tony DiPreta
Inker(s): Tony DiPreta
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Stupid Manny
First Line: Gee - It must be rainin'...
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Allen Ulmer (signed)
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Micro-Face
First Line: Crime and art are strange companions...
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Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: Art signed in last panel of story.
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Detectives Have Brains

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Letterer(s): typeset
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A Racket in Dolls

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Tony DiPreta (signed)
Inker(s): Tony DiPreta (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Zippo
Character(s): Zippo [Joe Blair]; Lynx (villain); Slug (villain); Bill (villain)
Synopsis: Detective Blair passes by a junkyard, hears a cry for help and encounters a suspicious man. Blair has a cabbie trail this man in a truck, which mysteriously disappears near a doll factory. Blair enters the factory, encounters more suspicious men, is knocked out and winds up in jail. Released on his own recognizance, he becomes Zippo and returns to the factory to further investigate and discovers that the ragdolls are filled with steel bars instead of straw, which other nations then melt down and use for their own purposes......good or bad. Zippo shuts down the illegal sale of defense steel.
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Pages: 9
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A Well-Laid Plot

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Feature(s): Jackie Law and the Boy Rangers
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The Quilled Death!!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): John Cassone [as J. Cassone] (signed)
Inker(s): John Cassone [as J. Cassone] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Twilight
Character(s): Twilight [Sergeant Terry Gardener]; Snoopy (Twilight's pet parrot); The Porcupine (villain, introduction); Porcupine's gang (introduction for all)
Synopsis: On furlough from the Marines, Terry and Snoopy stroll around town and discover a moving van in front of a museum. Noting from a newspaper that the theft of valuable gems in town has caused the Mayor to close down the museum. Smelling a rat, Twilight confronts the Porcupine inside the museum, who has already killed the movers at the museum and who seeks a stuffed porcupine found within that contains the stolen gems.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Cassone's signature is found on the newspaper in the last panel of the story.

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