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Issue: Jumbo Comics #22 Public Domain
Publication Date: December 1940
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Issues: #22 of 167 Issues (168 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagFiction House
Brand: Fiction House MagazinesView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: Real Adventures Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 10/09/1940
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 14 (13 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose 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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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: black and white (#1-8); color (#9 onwards)
Dimensions: tabloid:10.5 x 14 1/2 (#1-8); 8.5 x 10.5 inches (#9); standard Golden Age U.S. (#10 onwards)
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue.
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reprinted from some/all another Issue.
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Original Artwork
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Cover, Front
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Victims of the Super-Ape

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Character(s): Sheena; Bob Reynolds
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Victims of the Super-Ape

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as W. Morgan Thomas] (credited)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Character(s): Sheena; Bob Reynolds; Chim; Panzee; Orang; Reginald Barrows; Colonel Picard; Sergeant Korilenko; Memsa Siba; Luigi; A giant gorilla
First Line: So that is where Chim has been keeping...
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: Powell signs in the final panel.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Bobby
Character(s): Bobby; Shoyn Du, Mr. Von Snitzel; Mr. De Flicker
First Line: Bobby, my frand, when you put on theez...
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: This is a parody of Little Nemo.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, historical
Character(s): The Hawk; Lord Conway; Jeremy; Carlos Sandos; Bruce
First Line: After his last treasure hunt, The Hawk returns...
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Retelling of The Hawk's origin.

Per Mort Leav, Art Saaf was given old Eisner material and assigned to re-write, re-compose, and fill in the gaps to create "new" Eisner Hawk stories (Robin Snyder's The Comics).
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Sabotage

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Teller Tayles] (credited)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Lightning [Fred Larkin]; General Larkin; Mr. Morrose; Voneer
First Line: Now watch this plane do a power dive!
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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The 13th Notch

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (2 spot illustrations)
Inker(s): ? (2 spot illustrations)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Big Buck Conovan; Weasel; Rattler Vito (crook)
First Line: The Shadows in Death Alley...
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Golly] (credited)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous
Character(s): Peter Pupp; Zula; Budah; Tinymite
First Line: In the last installments our friends are trapped...
Reprinting
From Issue: FlagJumbo Comics #5 published January 1939
Reprint Notes: Pages 2 and 3 of the story in Jumbo Comics #5.
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: "By Golleh" on previous episodes is here spelled "By Golly" as if to explain the joke.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Curt Davis] (credited)
Penciller(s): Iger/Eisner shop
Inker(s): Iger/Eisner shop
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Stuart Taylor in Weird Stories of the Supernatural
Character(s): Stuart Taylor; Doctor Hayward; Laura; Queen Starina; Lina (death)
First Line: Dr. Hayward's amazing time machine speeds the time travelers...
Synopsis: Somewhere in the past Stuart Taylor has to rescue Dr. Hayward and Laura from the clutches of Queen Starina and her wizard.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagGolden-Age Men of Mystery #12 published January 1999
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]originally in color; in black and white
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Tuska, Celardo, Cardy, and perhaps others - someone swiping Lou Fine or doing a decent imitation. Possibly collaged from earlier strips a la "Hawk." See "Inspector Dayton" later in this issue. Bill Black reports the artist as being Lou Fine in Golden-Age Men of Mystery #12.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
Feature(s): Pee Wee
Character(s): Pee Wee Myers; Mr. Bore
First Line: Aunt Minnie's been expecting you, Mister Bore!
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
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Burglars

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Uncle Otto
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Morgan Thomas] (credited)
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage
Feature(s): ZX-5 Spies In Action
Character(s): ZX-5; Operator 22; Baron Rathskull; Otto
First Line: Raiding bombers scream across the peaceful plains to...
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Other hands at work including Art Peddy, R.L. Golden? Possibly collaged from earlier episodes. Note also the "W. Morgan Thomas" loses his first initial in this episode.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Fred Sande] (credited)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Wilton of the West
Character(s): Wiley Wilton; Samuel Carson; Steve
First Line: The map of the ancient Montezuma treasure takes...
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: "Fred" Sande returns.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as George Thatcher] (credited)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Inspector Dayton
Character(s): Inspector Dayton; Mongi Lin; Doctor Sung; Wini; Martha
First Line: In the temple of the Si-Lun, Mongi Lin, wrathful...
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: This resembles a very early Bob Powell style and some panels are certainly collaged from earlier strips. The car in the first two panels of page two is traced from the ZX-5 story in Jumbo #10, for instance.
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Introducing Tom Dick and Harry

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Charles Tansul]
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Tom Dick and Harry
Character(s): Dick Swenson (First Appearance); Tom Devlin (First Appearance); Harry Carson (First Appearance); Sally
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: "Tansul" is "Sultan" spelled sideways.

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