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Issue: Top Notch Comics #9 Public Domain
Publication Date: October 1940
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Issues: #9 of 27 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagArchie Publications, Inc.
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: M. L. J. Magazines Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/15/1940
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 11 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Harry Shorten
Disclose Notes: Some info verified using a DCM scan (http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/)

The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1940, New Series, Vol. 35, No. 4.
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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
Format Notes:  
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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Cover, Front
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Edd Ashe ?
Inker(s): Edd Ashe ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Black Hood; Roy the Super-Boy
Character(s): The Black Hood [Kip Burland]; Roy the Super-Boy [Roy Carter]
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In Content Item: FlagThe Black Hood #1 published June 1983
as Crusader Chronicles [Text Article on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Black Hood [Kip Burland] (introduction, origin); The Hermit (introduction); Mrs. Sutton (introduction); Barbara Sutton (introduction); David Seymon (introduction); The Skull (villain, introduction)
First Line: Howdy, Kip, how's tricks today?
Synopsis: Policeman Kip Burland is framed by the Skull, resulting in Kip being discharged from the force in disgrace. He is taken "for a ride" by the Skull's minions and left in the woods to die. He is discovered by an old hermit -- a self-taught scientist and philosopher, who had also been wronged by the Skull. The Hermit ends up turning Kip into a super crime fighter by putting him through rigid training, teaching him science and all knowledge. The Black Hood then confronts the Skull at a masquerade party. The Skull kills a young girl with a poison pill before being unmasked and escaping.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
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The Earning of the Magic Sword

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harry Shorten (signed)
Penciller(s): Lin Streeter (signed)
Inker(s): Lin Streeter (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Galahad
Character(s): The Lady of the Lake (introduction); Garlan (introduction); Lady Morgana (villain); a monster (villain, introduction, death)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Dr. Dread (villain, introduction, death); zombies (villain, introduction, death); Sneaky (villain, introduction)
First Line: The mad scientist, Dr. Dread, whom the Firefly has brought within the reach of the law, is about to suffer for his mis-deeds [sic]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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The Invasion of Luxeria

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joe Blair (signed)
Penciller(s): Irv Novick [as Irving Novick] (signed)
Inker(s): Irv Novick [as Irving Novick] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Fran Frazer
Character(s): Fran Frazer (introduction); Hal Davis (introduction)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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The Bail Bond Racketeers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harry Shorten
Penciller(s): Edd Ashe
Inker(s): Edd Ashe
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Wizard
Character(s): Bail bond racketeers (villains, introductions)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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The Nazis' Hidden Guns

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joe Blair (signed)
Penciller(s): Ed Smalle [as Ed Smalle Jr.] (signed)
Inker(s): Ed Smalle [as Ed Smalle Jr.] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Wings Johnson
Character(s): The Nazis (villains)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Ah Ku and the Council of Seven

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harry Shorten [as H. Shorten] (signed)
Penciller(s): Bernard Klein [as Bernie Klein] (signed)
Inker(s): Bernard Klein [as Bernie Klein] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Bob Phantom
Character(s): Ah Ku (villain); her gang (villains); The Council of Seven (introduction, three deaths)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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The Mother Lode

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, western
Character(s): Thomas F. Walsh
Synopsis: Gold is where you find it, the trick is to know how to hold on to it!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Army-Colby Game

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harry Shorten
Penciller(s): Bob Wood
Inker(s): Bob Wood
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Keith Kornell, West Pointer
Character(s): Keith Kornell; Janet
Synopsis: Espionage before the Army-Colby Game in football.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Originally credited to Ed Wexler, but the grinning faces showing teeth, as the reporter, and some very narrow heads in side view are not his work, it is Bob Wood. Compare heads and faces with his Firefly story. Hard to find teeth showing in Wexlers faces, issue #3.
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The Master Brahmins: Part 4

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harry Shorten (signed)
Penciller(s): Bernard Klein [as Bernie Klein] (signed)
Inker(s): Bernard Klein [as Bernie Klein] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Kardak
Character(s): The Great Rexa (villain, introduction); the Transparent People (villains, introduction)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6

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