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Issue: Thrilling Comics #2 (2)

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Publication Date: March 1940

Issue v1 #2 (2)
- 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)
- v4 #3 (12)
- more...
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Issues: #2 (2) of 80 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Pines

Brand: none

Indicia Publisher: Better Publications, Inc.

On Sale Date: 01/11/1940

Volume: 1

Pages: 68

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 13 (11 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 444113.

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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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Content Items (13 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

Dr. Strange in the Lost City

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Writer(s): Richard Hughes

Penciller(s): Alexander Kostuk

Inker(s): Alexander Kostuk

Colorist(s): Richard Hughes

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Dr. Strange

Character(s): Jonathan Crewe (villain, introduction, death)

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Pages: 14

Notes: Dr. Strange is called "Doc Strange" for the first time in this story.

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Subject Matter

Genres: adventure

Character(s): The Three Comrades [Cal Collins; Paul "Books" Stone; Lucky] (introduction); The Mask (villain, introduction)

First Line: Cal Collins walks through a quiet street near the waterfront.

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Pages: 8

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Genres: adventure

Character(s): Tom Niles (introduction); Betty Manton (introduction); Schmidt (villain, introduction, death); Commander Gregg (villain, introduction, death); Nazis

First Line: Introducing...the world's greatest submarine warfare fighter, Tommy Niles, American soldier of fortune -- enlisting in the battle for democracy against the Nazi menace.

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Pages: 10

Let's Be Friends!

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Writer(s): Ned Pines ?

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Synopsis: Promo for the "Thrilling Club".

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[untitled]

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): The Woman in Red [Peggy Allen] (introduction, origin); Dr. Billings (villain, introduction, death)

First Line: Mysterious tragedies terrorize the great metropolitan hospital!

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Pages: 8

The Gold Hunting Days

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Credits

Writer(s): Terry Gilkison

Penciller(s): Terry Gilkison [as Tex Terson] (signed)

Inker(s): Terry Gilkison [as Tex Terson] (signed)

Colorist(s): Terry Gilkison

Letterer(s): ?

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Feature(s): Young Smiley West

Character(s): Smiley West (introduction)

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Pages: 3

Lid of Death

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Writer(s): Barry Brandon

Colorist(s): Barry Brandon

Letterer(s): typeset

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The Rio Kid rides on his eternal quest for adventure!

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): John Daly (signed)

Inker(s): John Daly (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

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Feature(s): Rio Kid

Character(s): The Rio Kid (introduction); Barbara Blake (introduction); Mr. Blake (introduction); Wendell (villain, introduction, death)

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Pages: 6

Pizen Bend

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): Sam Brant

Colorist(s): Sam Brant

Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 1

Seven o'clock--she's due out any minute--

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Kin Platt (signed)

Inker(s): Kin Platt (signed)

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Subject Matter

Feature(s): Tommy Dolan, Ace Detective

Character(s): Tommy Dolan (introduction, only appearance)

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Pages: 8

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Hello, Vicky, I've missed you.

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Feature(s): Pinocchio

Character(s): Pinocchio (adapted from fairy tale, introduction, origin)

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Pages: 3.5

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): The Stooges

First Line: I'm expecting a very important client...

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