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Issue: International Comics #1
Publication Date: January 1947
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Issues: #1 of 5 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagEC
Brand: EC An Entertaining ComicView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: I. C. Publishing Company, Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 10 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Ivan Klapper ?
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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): Leo Bachle [as Bachelor] (signed)
Inker(s): Leo Bachle [as Bachelor] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Manhattan's Files
Character(s): Van Manhattan
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: "Lee Bachelor" is a known pen name for Leo Bachle, who confirmed that he worked at EC under that name in Comic Book Marketplace #114. Bachle had an assistant, John Alton, help for his EC work, but it is not known precisely what he did and this work needs to be compared with Alton's solo work. It is believed that Ernie Bache also used Lee Bachelor as a pen name, but examples of where he did that are unknown.
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Introducing a New Group of Exciting, Adventuresome Comic Friends!

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Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, crime, mystery
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Includes summary of the issue's stories, list of Advisory Board members, and "In Our Next Issue" blurb.
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Manhattan's Files

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gardner F. Fox ?
Penciller(s): Howard Purcell [as HP] (signed on airplane fuselage)
Inker(s): Howard Purcell [as HP] (signed on airplane fuselage)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Manhattan's Files
Character(s): Van Manhattan; Miss Gale; Coombs; Miss Ellen; Johnny Dukes (villain, death)
Synopsis: The fact that Van's evidence put away Public Enemy #1, Johnny Dukes, is of little avail when Dukes escapes from prison and hijacks an airplane that Manhattan is on heading for Seattle.
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Pages: 8
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Introducing Igor

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gardner F. Fox
Penciller(s): Sheldon Moldoff
Inker(s): Sheldon Moldoff
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: historical
Feature(s): Igor the Archer
Character(s): Igor the Archer; Count Rostov; Czar (villain)
First Line: Out of the past he comes---
Synopsis: Igor is captured by the evil tyrant Czar, who condemns him to the scaffold.
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Introducing Juan Meatbal

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gardner F. Fox ?
Penciller(s): Lee Ames
Inker(s): Burt Frohmen
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Juan Meatbal
Character(s): Juan Meatbal
First Line: Many, many years ago in the leetle town of Sowtuva Boorda...
Synopsis: When the inhabitants of Sawtuva-Boorda in Mexico learn that there are no fish available for their big Feast of the Fish, Juan steps up and makes a secret pact with a visiting pelican which allows the feast to go on as scheduled.
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Pages: 6
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Sound Suspicion

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Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
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Pages: 2
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That's Madelon!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gardner F. Fox ?
Penciller(s): Clem Weisbecker
Inker(s): Clem Weisbecker
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Madelon
Character(s): Madelon Durand; The Great Durand (Madelon's father, death); Mr. Benet; Bobo King of the Apaches (death); von Schlager (villain)
Synopsis: After seeing her father gunned down by the Gestapo, Madelon takes her father's place in the French Underground to battle against the Nazi tyranny. But when the war ends, she decides to use her talents as a photographer and runs down a wanted Nazi felon from the war era.
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Disclose Notes: The last panel of the story is titled "Madelon's Manual: Postive Advice for Better Negatives", and gives readers tips on how to properly focus their cameras during early mornings and later afternoons.

Weisbecker noted for long faces with angular jaws and chin, and wide open eyes. Compare with his many Shield stories in Pep Comics.
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For the Finest in Comic Entertainment

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Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: House ad for Land of the Lost Comics #3, Tiny Tot Comics #6, Animal Fables #2, and Dandy Comics #1.
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The Story of Young George Washington

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): M. C. Gaines; W. W. D. Sones
Penciller(s): Allen Simon
Inker(s): Allen Simon
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational
Feature(s): Picture Stories from American History
Character(s): George Washington
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From Issue: FlagPicture Stories from American History #2 published January 1946
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Now on Sale!

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Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: House ad for Picture Stories from American History, Picture Stories from Science, and Picture Stories from World History.

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