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Issue: Thrilling Comics #1 (1)

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Publication Date: February 1940

Issue v1 #1 (1)
- ✔ v1 #1 (1)
- v1 #2 (2)
- v1 #3 (3)
- v2 #1 (4)
- v2 #2 (5)
- v2 #3 (6)
- v? #1 (7)
- v3 #2 (8)
- v3 #3 (9)
- v4 #1 (10)
- v? #2 (11)
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Issues: #1 (1) of 80 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Pines

Brand: none

Indicia Publisher: Better Publications, Inc.

On Sale Date: 12/01/1939

Volume: 1

Pages: 68

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 7 (5 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Ned Pines [as N. L. Pines] (president)

Notes: Some info verified using a DCM scan (http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/).

On sale date from the publication date found at the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, January-December 1940, Numbers 1-4. Second class permit. Copyright number 441198.

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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

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Cover, Front

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Title Page

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Content Items (7 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): Alexander Kostuk

Inker(s): Alexander Kostuk

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Dr. Strange (Doc Strange)

Character(s): Dr. Strange [Professor Thomas Hugo Strange]; Virginia Thomson

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Pages: 1

Notes: Alter Ego #111 (July 2012) features three different preliminary covers to this issue by Alexander Kostuk on Page 40.

The Amazing Adventures of "Dr. Strange"

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Richard Hughes [as Dick Hughes] (credited)

Penciller(s): Alexander Kostuk [as Alexander Koster] (signed)

Inker(s): Alexander Kostuk [as Alexander Koster] (signed)

Colorist(s): Richard Hughes

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Dr. Strange

Character(s): Dr. Strange [Professor Thomas Hugo Strange]; (introduction, origin, becomes Doc Strange by issue #10); Virginia Thompson (introduction); Prof. Thompson (introduction); The Faceless Phantom [Commissioner Baxter] (villain, introduction); Togo (villain, introduction, death)

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Pages: 37

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Ray McGill

Penciller(s): Ray McGill

Inker(s): Ray McGill

Colorist(s): Ray McGill

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): The McCoys

Character(s): Mr. McCoy (introduction); Mrs. McCoy (introduction); Mickey (introduction); Jane McCoy (introduction)

First Line: Wwweeeee it's snowing out!

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Pages: 5

A Message from the Editor!

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Ned Pines ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Synopsis: Request for fan mail, how to enter "CASH PRIZE CONTEST".

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Pages: 1

Notes: List of issue features: "Captain Future" is erroneously mentioned (should be "Dr. Strange")

Don Tyler's Triumph

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Robert Wallace (signed)

Colorist(s): Robert Wallace

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure

Character(s): Don Tyler (introduction)

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Pages: 2

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Subject Matter

Character(s): Nickie Norton (Secret Service agent) (introduction); Inspector McGinnis (introduction); John Fulton (introduction); Sandra Fulton (introduction); Cortez (villain, introduction, death)

First Line: Jim Fulton, inventor of the Fulton submarine, is menaced by Cortez, a notorious spy.

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Pages: 16

Lt. George W. Baylor

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Subject Matter

Genres: biography

Feature(s): Texas Rangers

Character(s): George W. Baylor

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Pages: 3