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Issue: Startling Comics #1 (4)

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Publication Date: December 1940

Issue v2 #1 (4)
- v1 #1
- #2
- #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)
- v5 #1 (13)
- v5 #2 (14)
- more...
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Issues: #1 (4) of 53 Issues

Title:

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Publisher: Flag

Pines

Brand: none

Indicia Publisher: Better Publications Inc.

On Sale Date: 10/24/1940

Volume: 2

Pages: 68

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 13 (10 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Ned Pines

Notes: 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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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 series

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Content Items (13 total)

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Captain Future [Andrew Bryant]

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Pages: 1

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Captain Future [Andrew Bryant]

First Line: A Nazonian espionage ring meets in its secret New York headquarters!

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Pages: 12

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Genres: espionage

Character(s): Lt. Don Davis; Colonel Brank (villain)

First Line: Lt. Don Davis makes a great decision!

Synopsis: Don is assigned by British Intelligence with a vital mission to the British oil terminal in Haifa, the scene of many air strikes by enemy forces. Unless the attacks can be stopped, the British will be unable to fight.

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Genres: occult, superhero

Character(s): Mystico; un-named U.S. Navy Admiral; un-named Army Major; Carr (villain, planetary potentate); Simeo (villain, hairy apeman); Amphisaur (sea creature, death)

First Line: The Atlantic fleet steams past Sandy Hook for maneuvres.

Synopsis: Mystico receives a mental warning, alerting the Navy from test firing its big guns. But when they do, against Mystico's advice, a large sea creature arises out of the water and destroys the ships. After the same thing happens to Army guns along a beach, the man behind the creature escapes from a mental institution and then controls the beast to wreak havoc.

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Pages: 7

Notes: Feature entitled 'Mystico the Wonder Man'.

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Character(s): G-Man Dalton; J.C. Timms

First Line: J. C. Timms, a famous engraver, calls on his art agent!

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Pages: 7

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Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Ace Buckley; Toni; The Bashaw; Lieutenant O'Bannon

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Pages: 5

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Genres: adventure

Character(s): Dr. X (master of occult science); Cynthia (his niece); Bob Stone (her fiancé)

First Line: America is stunned as the ocean suddenly recedes, leaving ships stranded...

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Pages: 6

Boy Detectives

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Genres: adventure, childrens

Feature(s): Jerry Martin

Character(s): Jerry Martin; Herbie Johnson; Captain Blake

First Line: Herbie Johnson liked to play exciting games...

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Genres: jungle

Character(s): Tom Carson; Biff Powers; "Brick" Peters (villain, introduction, death); Horace (introduction); Marcia Beale

First Line: The curator of the Metropolitan Museum delivers an important address!

Synopsis: The Carson Circus sends Powers to Angola to find rumored giants as an attraction. The rival Trans-American Circus hires Peters to beat him to the giants. Peters arrives first, and befriends a pygmy tribe who will help him capture giants. The pygmies capture Powers and his girlfriend and plan to behead them, but the giants attack while the village guards are distracted. As a reward, their chief sends two men back with Powers for the circus.

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Pages: 9

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Genres: western

Character(s): Buck Nelson; Tommy Luden; Sheriff Sam Jerrson

First Line: Old Zeb Martin grinned at the boy...

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Genres: western

Character(s): The Masked Rider ["Bronc" Nelson]; Jud Watkins (crook); Barker; Curley

First Line: The Masked Rider heads along a trail above the Conchos River --

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Genres: humorous, western

Character(s): Happy; Snappy

First Line: We gotta get that guy!

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Pages: 1.5

Notes: Two separate stories, one full page, and one half page.

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Feature(s): Doc Strange

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Notes: House ad for Thrilling Comics