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Issue: Paragon Presents #2
Publication Date: January 1970
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Issues: #2 of 2 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagAC
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Paragon Publications
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume:
Pages: 32
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.60 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 12 (3 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Bill Black
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: black & white cover and interior
Dimensions: magazine size
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Bill Black
Inker(s): Bill Black
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle, superhero
Feature(s): Tara
Character(s): Tara
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In Content Item: FlagTara on the Dark Continent #2 published January 1979
as Contents page [Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword on Interior Page(s)]interior, as background
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Pages: 1
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Paragon Presents... Dark Continent

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Bill Black; Dan Adkins
Inker(s): Bill Black; Dan Adkins
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Tara; Captain Paragon; Sheena; Shade
Synopsis: Listing of a head shot of each superhero in this comic, also includes the indicia.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.15
Disclose Notes: Black and white.
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Dark Continent

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Black
Penciller(s): Bill Black
Inker(s): Bill Black
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle, superhero
Feature(s): Shade
Character(s): Shade [Roger Brant]; Roger Brant; T.C. Fremont; Tara Fremont
Synopsis: T.C. Fremont offers Roger Brant (Shade) a job designing the brochures and ads for the Dark Continent. Roger Brant accepts the job and wants to know when he will meet Tara.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1.85
Disclose Notes: Black and white. This story is used as part of the basis for the Lair of the Beast Men story in Jungle Girl Retro Comics (AC, 1997 series) #4 (1997).
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Lair of the Beast-Men!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Black
Penciller(s): Bill Black
Inker(s): Bill Black
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle, superhero
Feature(s): Tara
Character(s): Tara; Janis Lawson; Charles Lambert; Randall Crowley (death); Shade
Synopsis: Randall Crowley, who controls the Beast-men, also controls a giant electronic octopus and he has it appear to "eat" Janis and Tara. Randall plans to kill the various exotic animals on the Dark Continent to sell their pelts. Fortunately the Shade is looking for Tara and enters Randall's subconscious. Randall goes mad thinking that the animals he has killed are going to drown him in their blood, and he falls over a cliff and is impaled on one of the skinning hooks. Tara concludes that Janis and Charles Lambert will be good caretakers for the Dark Continent.
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Pages: 16
Disclose Notes: Black and white, pages 4-12 and 20-26. This story is used as part of the basis for the Lair of the Beast Men story and the Chapter Two 'Into the Jaws of the Sea Beast' story in Jungle Girl Retro Comics (AC, 1997 series) #4 (1997).
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Paragon Presents...

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Syd Shores; ?
Inker(s): Syd Shores: ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Black Rider; The Texas Kid; Synesthesia
Synopsis: Information on what's in this issue, an update on some information from last issue and a survey for people to pick what they would prefer to see in the future.
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Pages: 0.8
Disclose Notes: Black and white.
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Paragon Illustrated promo

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Terri Lulos; Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Terri Lulos; Jack Kirby
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Captain 3-D
Synopsis: Promo for Paragon Illustrated issues #1-3. Includes a small reprint of the cover to Paragon Illustrated #1 by Terri Lulos and a drawing of Captain 3-D by Jack Kirby.
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Pages: 0.2
Disclose Notes: Black and white. Credits for the cover of Paragon Illustrated #1 from Paragon Publications Cover Gallery (internet website).
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Sheena

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photo)
Inker(s): ? (photo)
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Feature(s): Irish McCalla [as Sheena]
Character(s): Sheena
Synopsis: Photo of Irish McCalla as Sheena.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Black and white.
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A Sheena Portfolio

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Dan Adkins; Bill Black; Robert H. Webb; Bob Powell; Photos
Inker(s): Dan Adkins; Bill Black; Robert H. Webb; Bob Powell; Photos
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Feature(s): Sheena; Irish McCalla [as Sheena]
Character(s): Sheena
Synopsis: Text article describing the comics that Sheena appeared in during the 1930's to 1950's. Includes the cover to Jumbo Comics (Fiction House, 1938 series) #108 (February 1948) without lettering, other Sheena artwork and three photos of Sheena (at least two are of Irish McCalla).
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Pages: 3
Disclose Notes: Black and white.
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Sheena Pinup

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Dan Adkins
Inker(s): Dan Adkins
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Feature(s): Sheena
Character(s): Sheena
Synopsis: Sheena two page centerpiece pinup.
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Black and White
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Sheena Pinup

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Feature(s): Sheena
Character(s): Sheena
Synopsis: Sheena pinup.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Black and white.
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From the Turmoil...A Friend?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Black
Penciller(s): Bill Black
Inker(s): Bill Black
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Captain Paragon
Character(s): Captain Paragon; Proxima; Mara; Harry; Nicola Latimer; The Shroud; Richard Latimer
Synopsis: In an alien spaceship Mara transfers the power transferred from Captain Paragon to herself and then escapes. Captain Paragon, who is acting very irrationally due to the LSD he's taken, is found by Nicole Latimer, the daughter of his old friend Richard Latimer. When Captain Paragon went on a mission in Korea to save Richard he first encountered the Shroud, who put Captain Paragon in a supernatural trance for 15 years. Richard agrees to try to help Captain Paragon figure out what long-term effects the LSD might have on his body and they prepare to run experiments on him.
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Black and white.
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Haunted Horseman Pinup

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Bill Black
Inker(s): Bill Black
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Haunted Horseman
Character(s): Haunted Horseman
Synopsis: Bill Black's re-creation of the Dick Ayer's cover to Ghost Rider, The (Magazine Enterprises, 1950 series) #8 (August 1952).
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Black & white, back cover.

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