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Issue: Boy Comics #89

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Publication Date: May 1953

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Issues: #89 of 117 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating: Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code

Publisher: Flag

Lev Gleason

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Indicia Publisher: Lev Gleason Publications Inc.

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency: Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code

Content Items: 5 (4 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Charles Biro; Bob Wood

Notes: Indicia title is 'Boy Illustories'.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.; later standard Silver Age U.S.

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

Format Notes:

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1 Content Item
- The Return of the Claw [Story on Interior Page(s)]1

reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue.

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Cover, Front

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Title Page

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Content Items (5 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Charles Biro

Inker(s): Charles Biro

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure

Feature(s): Sniffer and Iron Jaw

Character(s): Sniffer; Iron Jaw [von Schmidt]; The Claw (inset); Crimebuster [Chuck Chandler] (inset); Squeeks (inset, a monkey)

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Pages: 1

Notes: The comic is actually titled Boy Illustories.

He Got What Was Coming

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Charles Biro

Penciller(s): Norman Maurer [as NM] (signed)

Inker(s): Norman Maurer [as NM] (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Crimebuster

Character(s): Crimebuster [Chuck Chandler]; Squeeks (CB's monkey)

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 10

Iron Jaw's Biggest Bite

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Charles Biro

Penciller(s): Norman Maurer

Inker(s): Norman Maurer

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure

Feature(s): Sniffer & Deadly Dozen

Character(s): Sniffer; Deadly Dozen; Iron Jaw [von Schmidt] (villain)

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Pages: 8

The Four Musketeers

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure

Feature(s): Little Wise Guys

Character(s): The Little Wiseguys

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Pages: 2

The Return of the Claw

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Charles Biro (signed)

Penciller(s): Norman Maurer (signed)

Inker(s): Norman Maurer (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Feature(s): Rocky X of the Rocketeers

Character(s): Rocky X; The Claw (villain; new origin in flashback, with lots of revisions); Adolf Hitler (cameo); the Nazis (villains, cameo)

Synopsis: After losing nearly one third of their forces in combat, the Rocketeers must face the invasion of the Earth, and Rocky volunteers the Rocketeers to take on the invasion force, which they discover comes from the Planet Zylmarz...the home of the infamous Claw!

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Golden-Age Greats Spotlight #11 published December 2012
as The Return of the Claw [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 7