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Issue: Amazing Man Comics #17 Public Domain
Publication Date: November 1940
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Issues: #17 of 22 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagCentaur
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Comic Corporation of America
On Sale Date: 09/05/1940
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.15 CAD
$0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 15 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Data from Jerry Bails index cards & Howard Keltner's Golden Age index.

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 cover; color interior
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Aman the Amazing-Man
Character(s): Amazing Man [John Aman]
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Pages: 1
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Genres: informational
Feature(s): Stamps
First Line: Numerous countries have vanished in the past...
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover. Page also includes indicia.
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Biggest Dime's Worth of Thrills

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Synopsis: Promo for Sure-Fire Comics and Super-Mystery Comics.
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Also inside front cover.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Aman the Amazing-Man
Character(s): Amazing-Man [John Aman]; Zona Henderson; Great Question; Operative Eight-Six (Great Question's agent); Slim (cowboy); Chuck (cowboy); Black Bull (renegade native); Joe Weltners (rancher)
First Line: Look that girl is fainting!
Synopsis: The Great Question seeks to destroy the oil fields in Wyoming but the Amazing Man intervenes to stop his henchmen.
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Pages: 12
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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Minimidget
Character(s): Minimidget; Ritty; Sam Reagan (Texan rancher)
First Line: Come here, Ritty, we have some mail.
Synopsis: Minimidget and Ritty help their friend Sam stop cattle thieves at his ranch.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Charles Verral has a Minimidget writing credit for 1941 in Jerry Bails' Who's Who. Is there any data to suggest THIS story is by him?
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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Iron Skull
Character(s): Iron Skull; Moose; Chuck Lemerise; Al Avison; Professor Edmunds; Peep Eckley (guide)
First Line: Arriving at the airplane factory, the Iron Skull...
Synopsis: Moose quits Avison's employ and assist Iron Skull in pursuing Avison's gang to Peru to prevent them from raiding an Incan site. Avison tries to rile up natives into killing Iron Skull but his invulnerable body causes the natives to take him for a god.
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Pages: 9
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Shanghied!

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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Rocke Wayburn
Character(s): Rocke Wayburn; Thad Burns [Rocke's friend]; Walrus Blake [smuggler]; John [sailor]; Molly Burns [Thad's wife]
Synopsis: Rocke finds his friend Thad has been shanghaied by Walrus Blake. Rocke infiltrates the crew and leads a rebellion against Blake. Blake had been smuggling dope inside crates of silk.
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Midnight Deadline

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Amazing-Man
Character(s): Amazing Man [John Aman]; Zona Henderson
Synopsis: While going on vacation to Bermuda John Aman solves a murder committed using poison.
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Disclose Notes: Duke Carey is likely a pen-name.
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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Doctor Hypno
Character(s): Doctor Hypno; Wun; Scotty (zookeeper, dies)
First Line: Wun. Change that radio program!
Synopsis: After a gorilla murders 22 people in a scheme inspired by Poe's 'Murders in the Rue Morgue,' Dr. Hypno places his mind inside another gorilla in order to capture the killer animal. The first gorilla had been set free by Scotty, who commits suicide.
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Pages: 6
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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Mighty Man
Character(s): Mighty Man (poses as Pat O'Riley); Jim Boyl (dead man)
First Line: Hey old timer! You have a bite!
Synopsis: Mighty Man breaks up a mob who have been insuring people then killing them with Brazilian poison in order to collect on the policies.
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Pages: 8
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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Shark
Character(s): The Shark; Eric (gunman); Father Neptune; Joe Shapiro (also as Jean Vigee-Le Brun)
First Line: He walks over to a telephone.
Synopsis: Using his new ability to walk on water the Shark battles a birdman. The birdman reveals himself to be scientist Jean Vigee-Le Brun, who shares his formula with the Shark. Then Eric kills Jean. Then Eric reveals Jean is actually his boss Joe Shapiro and isn't dead. Then Joe explains he hypnotized the Shark and virtually everything he saw was a trick.
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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Reef Kinkaid
Character(s): Reef Kinkaid; Dr. Lang; Marian Lang; Kobo (jungle guide); Alligator-Men (costumed men); Torrga
First Line: We know that this knife was carved from pure gold...
Synopsis: Reef and his friends return to the jungles of Brazil to learn where a golden knife originated from. They discover men dressed as alligators who try to sacrifice Marian to a pit of alligators. Reef saves Marian and they find a huge deposit of gold.
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Pages: 7
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Were You Born in November

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: informational
Character(s): Marie Antoinette; Daniel Boone; Robert Fulton; Joe Dimaggio; Mark Twain
Synopsis: Facts about people born in November.
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This Beautiful Desk for only $1

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Synopsis: Ad for a desk and typewriter from Remington.
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Boys! Girls! Have You Seen Our New 1945 Catalog?

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Synopsis: Ad for novelties from Johnson Smith & Company.
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Disclose Notes: On back cover of comic.

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