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Issue: The Comics Magazine #2
Publication Date: June 1936
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Issues: #2 of 2 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagComics Magazine Company
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Comics Magazine Company Inc.
On Sale Date: 05/01/1936
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.15 CAD
$0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 38 (24 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: Logo now reads The Comics Magazine Funny Pages, but the indicia remains The Comic Magazine. All stories in #1 and #2 are taken from DC's inventory. The first Sheldon Mayer cover.

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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color covers; color with some black and white interior
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U. S.
Paper Stock: paper cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Absolutely the Nuts

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Genres: humorous
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In Issue: FlagAction! Mystery! Thrills! Comic Book Covers of the Golden Age: 1933-45 #[nn] published December 2011
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Contents Page

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Boys! Earn money and big prizes

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Disclose Notes: Advertisement for The Crowell Publishing Co. Inside front cover.
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The Funny Pages

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Feature(s): Editorial
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[untitled]

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Genres: western
Character(s): Captain Bill; Jane; Johnny; Rio Red
First Line: Captain Bill and his posse lost the trail...
Synopsis: Captain Bill's posse follows the trail of the outlaws. Jane and Johnny are confined to the outlaws' hideout cave, but find another way out. Bill approaches the cave, unaware he's being watched.
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Freddie Bell
First Line: Down with capitalism!
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Skinny Shaner
First Line: Sometimes a perfectly good theory...
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Koko
First Line: His teeth were chattering, and both knees shook...
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Porkchops; Gravy
First Line: Boy! Heah ah is starvin' to death and we ain't got nothin' to eat
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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Captain Tripe; Whiffle Puss
First Line: Oh Captin! The boys are gonna take the ship from you!
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Genres: espionage
Character(s): Bart Regan (introduction, next seen in Detective Comics #1); Secretary Henderson; Joe Kelly; Henry Martin; Barney (crook)
First Line: Bart Regan is conducting an important official...
Synopsis: Regan tracks down a counterfeiter who is being held hostage and forced to create phony printing plates.
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The Son-of-a-Gun Comes Through

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Genres: nature
Character(s): Buck Farnum
First Line: Things were pretty bad on the Crooked Horn Ranch.
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Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous
Character(s): Alfy Elephant
First Line: I'll getcha hat fer ya mister!
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Genres: humorous
First Line: As told by L. Soutter Ogden, Pennsylvania
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The Golden Idol

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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Jim Collins; Creak Stivers; Red
First Line: Jim Collins, explorer...
Synopsis: Jim and Creak follow the crook Stivers to the Golden Idol, where he steals jewels.
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Disclose Notes: Includes a one page introduction in text only. First two pages printed in four color, the rest in black and white.

This story is told entirely in pictures and records a new departure in narrative form. The publishers of this magazine are happy to be the first to offer this style of story telling to its readers and ask all of you write your opinion...
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[untitled]

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The Round-Up

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Genres: western
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Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Shocky; his mother
First Line: Blaw-w!
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This is free!

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[untitled]

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Genres: biography
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Disclose Notes: Includes "Swapper's Mart".
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Genres: humorous, western
Character(s): Frederick Lord; Sergeant Riley
First Line: Recruit Frederick Lord reports for duty with the Mexican Expeditionary Force
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Jake; James
First Line: Well we've shot all the gold dust we had...
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Big Sid; Pop
First Line: Where we goin' Pop?
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Lesson No. 2: Bodies

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Feature(s): Crossword Puzzle
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Synopsis: Captain Clark answers questions on Aeronautics
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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Bill Horton; Jake; Kaule
First Line: Bill Horton has just made his first inspection of the Black Lagoon...
Synopsis: Horton is diving for pearls. Kaule, a son of the native chief, falls into the lagoon and is held fast by an octopus. Horton attempts to free him.
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Genres: humorous
First Line: Kitchy kich!
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Genres: adventure, humorous
Character(s): Ham SHanks; Poss; Spike Kelly; Sultan Sourpuss; Corky
First Line: Ham Shanks and his pal Poss are helping their old friend Spike Kelly...
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Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous
Character(s): Dickie Duck; Biffy; Maizie
First Line: Dickie--take this umbrella and go fetch...
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Spunk Hazard; Miss Duke
First Line: Come on Foggy--let's go out and soak up some sunshine---
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Loony Louie, the Fire Chief
First Line: Hello! This is the fire department isn't it?
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Genres: humorous, mystery
Character(s): Evidence Eddy
First Line: Hmmmmm
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Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Cannonball Jones
First Line: Balmy is the day and Cannonball trips...
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Don't forget the free pencil

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Disclose Notes: Teaser for the subscription ad.
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Boys! Here's a magazine that you should read ...

Advertisement  on  Inside Back Cover (IBC)
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Disclose Notes: Advertisement for Everyday Science and Mechanics. Inside back cover.
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Factory to You

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Disclose Notes: Advertisement for Remington Rand. Back cover.

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