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Issue: Shadow Comics #7 [7]
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagStreet and Smith
Brand: none
On Sale Date: 08/30/1940
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 15 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): William DeGrouchy
Disclose Notes: Interior pages are numbered 1-64.

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 U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Joe Simon ?
Joe Simon ?
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Subject Matter
adventure
The Shadow; The Hooded Wasp
The Shadow [Lamont Cranston]; The Hooded Wasp; Wasplet
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
The Editor's Page

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
William DeGrouchy ?
typeset
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Miscellaneous
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Inside front cover. Table of Contents with short note from the editor promoting new features.
The Creeping Death

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Walter Gibson
Vernon Greene
Vernon Greene
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Subject Matter
adventure
The Shadow
The Shadow [Lamont Cranston]; Joe Cardona; Margo Lane; Stanley (cameo); Clifford Forster; Guthrie; Armagnac; Vignetti (villain); Prof. Partridge (villain)
The Shadow becomes involved in a professor's plot to make imitation gold and coin counterfeit foreign currency.
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FlagO Lobinho (2ª Série) #16 published August 1941
as O "Sombra" e a Morte que Sobe [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
12
title from cover. Adapted from "The Creeping Death" by Maxwell Grant [Walter Gibson] in SHADOW MAGAZINE v. 1 #22 (January 1933).
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
superhero
The Hooded Wasp
The Hooded Wasp [Bob] (introduction, origin); The Wasplet [Jim Martin] (introduction, origin); Razil (villain, secret society chief, introduction); secret society members (villains, introduction for all)
Like a missile hurled by the hand of a war god...
Bob, a former explorer, takes teen Jim Martin with him to excavate an Egyptian tomb in search of a magic scarab. Once obtained, Bob puts on a costume and becomes known as The Hooded Wasp, Martin becomes the Wasplet, and they fight evil around the world, including against his arch-enemy Razil, chief of a secret society that wants the scarab for himself.
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Miscellaneous
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The last panel is a contest to provide a name for Jim Martin's costumed alter ego, who is not named in this story. Prizes of a pocket knife are to be given for the 50 best names.

The Hooded Wasp has no super-powers.
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Saul Robbins (signed)
Saul Robbins (signed)
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Saul Robbins ?
Subject Matter
anthropomorphic
Cappy Can
Cappy Can; Susie "Q"; King Leo; Sir Gay
What a sucker he'd be for my left hook.
Cappy gets the aid of Sir Gay, the Magician, in training for a boxing match with King Leo.
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Miscellaneous
8
First part of a continued story.
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
Nick Carter
Nick Carter; Harrison Hilde; Jack Gleason [aka Slippery Jack] (villain); Dick Gray [aka Capt. Gray] (villain); Ivan Novack (villain)
Alias Slippery Jack--
Nick Carter, chief of the counter-espionage department, must recover plans for a powerful new explosive that were stolen by a ring of three spies.
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Miscellaneous
5
Bound To Win

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
Stories by Horatio Alger, Jr.
Harry Raymond; James Turner; Squire Turner; Evelyn Brown
When his father is killed by a train while walking home from work, Harry Raymond must find a way to raise money to pay the mortgage due on his mother's house. Harry invents a new explosive, but foreign agents bribe the mortgage holder to delay Harry so they can steal the formula.
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Miscellaneous
8
Frank Reed's "Marvel"

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
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Subject Matter
adventure
Frank Reed
Frank Reed; Barney
Frank and Barney try to recover stolen radium that was dumped into a muddy river. Frank invents a submarine called the "Marvel," which is loaded with various weapons.
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FlagO Lobinho (2ª Série) #16 published August 1941
as Frank Maravilha, Rei dos Inventores [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
5
First line of caption: "The world has come to recognize young Reed as one of the greatest inventors of all time!"
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
John W. Campbell (story); Theodore Sturgeon (adaptation)
Jack Farr
Jack Farr
?
Jack Farr ?
Subject Matter
science fiction
Iron Munro, The Astounding Man
Iron Munro; Spencer Carlisle; Anto Raul
Iron Munro, Jupiter-born scientist, and his friend Spencer Carlyle, strike an asteroid in space...
In the far future, Iron Munro and the Magyan space fleet use two moons of Magya as weapons to destroy the devil-planet Teef-El.
Reprinting
in The Shadow (Sanctum Books, 2006 series) #105 (March, 2016) (in black and white)
Miscellaneous
7
Into the Heart of Thunder Island!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
Subject Matter
Doc Savage; Ajax
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Miscellaneous
1
Promo for the current issue of Doc Savage Comics, with previews of the Doc Savage and Ajax the Sun Man stories.
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
historical
The Three Musketeers
D'Artagnan; Athos; Porthos; Aramis; Milady (villain)
Ho! Ho! Ho! D'artagnan, Paris never saw a scarecrow to equal this!
D'Artagnan, not yet a Musketeer, accompanies the Musketeers to the siege of La Rochelle. He finds himself under fire from assassins hired by Milady.
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Miscellaneous
8
Continued from last issue. Continues in the next issue. Feature is bylined "by Alexander Dumas."
The Hole Card

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Malcolm Rainsford (credited)
Paul Orban [as Orban] (signed)
Paul Orban [as Orban] (signed)
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typeset
Subject Matter
Steve Carrain; Ed Thompson
Outlaw Ed Thompson gets in a gunfight when Ed Thompson doesn't back down during a card game.
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Miscellaneous
2
illustrated text story
What's the Whole World Talking About?

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
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typeset
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Miscellaneous
1
Promo for Bill Barnes Comics. Line-drawn version of painted cover for Bill Barnes Comics #1 is depicted.
The True Life Story of Our Greatest Baseball Player

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
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typeset
Subject Matter
Lou Gehrig (photo)
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Miscellaneous
1
Inside back cover. Promo for Sport Comics #1, which features a story on the life of baseball player Lou Gehrig. Black and white version of the comics' cover is depicted.
Be Your Own Expert!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
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Miscellaneous
1
Back cover. Promo for "Street and Smith's Football Year Book" magazine, on sale August 30.

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