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Issue: Exciting Comics #2 (2)

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Publication Date: May 1940

Issue v1 #2 (2)
- v1 #1 (1)
- ✔ v1 #2 (2)
- v1 #3 (3)
- v2 #1 (4)
- v2 #2 (5)
- v2 #3 (6)
- v3 #1 (7)
- v3 #2 (8)
- v3 #3 (9)
- v4 #1 (10)
- v4 #2 (11)
- v4 #3 (12)
- more...
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Detail

Issues: #2 (2) of 69 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Pines

Brand: none

Indicia Publisher: Better Publications, Inc.

On Sale Date: 03/21/1940

Volume: 1

Pages: 68

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 11 (10 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, 1940, Number 2. Second class permit. Copyright number 448583.

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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

Format Notes:

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1 Content Item
- The Mask Returns [Story on Interior Page(s)]1

reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue.

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Cover, Front

Original Artwork

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Title Page

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Content Items (11 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): L. North

Inker(s): L. North

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Ted Crane

Character(s): Ted Crane

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Ted Crane and the Leopard Men

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): George Mandel [as Geo Mandel] (signed)

Inker(s): George Mandel [as Geo Mandel] (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Ted Crane

Character(s): Ted Crane (first appearance); Prof. Hawkins (first appearance); Betty Hawkins (first appearance); The Leopard Men (first appearance, villains); Bullard (first appearance, villain)

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 10

Marooned on Mercury

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Max Plaisted

Inker(s): Max Plaisted

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): The Space Rovers

Character(s): Ted Hunt (first appearance); Jane Martin (first appearance); Dr. Matthew Martin (first appearance); Mercurian cave-people (first appearance); Flaedo (first appearance, villain, death); Zado (first appearance, villain); King of Thian (first appearance, villain); Otto (first appearance, villain); another spy (first appearance, villain)

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Pages: 10

The Second Theseus

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): George Mandel

Penciller(s): George Mandel

Inker(s): George Mandel

Colorist(s): George Mandel

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Son of the Gods

Character(s): Dr. John Thesson [the modern Theseus] (first appearance, origin); Theseus (first appearance); Ariadne (first appearance); Aegeus (first appearance); Minos (first appearance, flashback); Prof. Craig (first appearance); Perphetes (first appearance, villain, death, flashback); Sinis (first appearance, villain, death, flashback); Minotaur (first appearance, villain, death, flashback); Procostous [Procrustes] (first appearance, villain); Cercion (first appearance, villain, death)

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

The Knowles Case

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Ray Lowry

Inker(s): Ray Lowry

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: mystery

Feature(s): Dan Williams, Private Investigator

Character(s): Dan Williams; Patricia Knowles (first appearance); Edward Knowles (first appearance, villain, death)

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

On the Western Front

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Leonard Sansone

Inker(s): Leonard Sansone

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Sergeant Bill King

Character(s): Sergeant Bill King; Nazis (villains)

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

The Grey Rider

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Jackson Cole

Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 1

Mystery of the Lost Mine

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): The Masked Rider

Character(s): The Masked Rider (first appearance; only appearance); The Specter [Jim Sanford] (first appearance; villain)

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

Theft of the Tank Plans

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Kin Platt ?

Inker(s): Kin Platt ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): The Sphinx

Character(s): The Sphinx [Ellsworth Forrester] (first appearance); Marjorie Grover (first appearance); Thomsen (first appearance; villain); Saunders (first appearance; villain); other spies (first appearance; villains)

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Pages: 8

Masked Bandit

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Donald Bayne Hobart

Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 1

The Mask Returns

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Raymond Thayer [as Thayer] (signed)

Inker(s): Raymond Thayer [as Thayer] (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): The Mask

Character(s): The Mask [Tony Colby]; Olly Snate (villain; death); Otto Fox (first appearance; villain; death)

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In Content Item: Flag

Men of Mystery Comics #43 published December 2003
as The Mask Returns [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6