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Issue: Airboy Comics #1 [25] Public Domain
Publication Date: February 1946
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Issues: #1 [25] of 89 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagHillman
Brand: A Hillman PublicationView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Hillman Periodicals, Inc.
On Sale Date: 01/10/1946
Volume: 3
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 14 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Ed Cronin
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Vol. 1, Part 2, Nos. 1&2, Periodicals, 1946-1947.
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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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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Fred Kida
Inker(s): Fred Kida
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: aviation
Feature(s): Airboy
Character(s): Airboy [David Nelson II]
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Pages: 1
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Amazing Forecaster Predicts the Weather 24 Hours in Advance

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photographs)
Inker(s): ? (photographs)
Letterer(s): ?; typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Weather Man
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Insided front cover.
Ad for "Swiss" Weather House and Good Luck Leaf for $1.69.
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The Deadliest Game

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Fred Kida [as Kida] (signed)
Inker(s): Fred Kida [as Kida] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Airboy
First Line: Some people will bet on anything…
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
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The Doughnut Makers' Convention

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: humorous
Feature(s): Skinny McGinty
First Line: It all started because Mayor Skinny McGinty tried to help the doughnut makers…
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Pages: 4
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The Air Ace Memorial Mystery

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ?
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): SkyWolf
First Line: Let's look into the life of the little town of Hopedale…
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Pages: 9
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The Jonah

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): A. H. Young
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: For five hours the giant Consolidated airliner, Titanic was buffeted by a violent North Atlantic gale.
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Genuine Photo Master Candid Camera

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Penciller(s): ? (photographs)
Inker(s): ? (photographs)
Colorist(s): ? (lettering and backgrounds only)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): National Novelties
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Disclose Notes: After text story.
Get a genuine Photo Master camera for $3.98 and a genuine Feather Lite Windproof Lighter and cigarette case for $2.98
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The Mystery of the Kent

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Maurice Whitman [as Whitman] (signed)
Inker(s): Maurice Whitman [as Whitman] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, crime
Feature(s): Iron Ace
First Line: Dr. Robert Crandell, London butcher, who broke out of Newgate Prison four years ago…
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Whitman's signature is at the foot of the final page.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Art Helfant
Penciller(s): Art Helfant
Inker(s): Art Helfant
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Alfie and Ralphie
First Line: Say, Alfie - I could win that dancing prize...
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Girls Can't Resist This Kiss Me Necktie As It Glows in the Dark!

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Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Glow in the Dark Necktie Co.
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Ad for novelty tie for $1.49.
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The Fliers' Grail

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: adventure
Feature(s): Flying Dutchman
First Line: Down through the airways of the past, wings the Flying Dutchman - in search of the mysterious "Fliers' Grail"…
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Genuine "Texas Beauty" Specials!

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?; ? (photographs)
Inker(s): ?; ? (photographs)
Colorist(s): ?; ? (photographs)
Letterer(s): ?; typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Illinois Merchandise Mart.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: After last story.
Get a genuine cowhide belt for $1.98 and a "Smart Saddle" leather zipper billfold for $2.98.
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Boys! Sportsman! Sensational New Wrist Type Luminous Dial Compass

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Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Illinois Merchandise Mart.
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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
Get luminous wrist compass for $1.98.
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Now - You Can Make $100 Worth of Valuable Plastic Objects

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Colorist(s): ?; ? (photograph)
Letterer(s): ?; typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Plastic Enterprises
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Disclose Notes: Back cover.
Get a Plastikit and all the materials necessary to make 1000 "useful items".

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