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Issue: Jumbo Comics #23

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Publication Date: January 1941

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Issues: #23 of 167 Issues (168 Printings)

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Fiction House

Brand: Fiction House Magazines

Indicia Publisher: Real Adventures Publishing Co. Inc.

On Sale Date: 11/12/1940

Volume: 1

Pages: 68

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 14 (13 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Malcolm Reiss (Editor); Will Eisner (Art Director); S. M. Iger (Feature Editor)

Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1941, New Series, Vol. 36, No. 1.

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Format

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:

Reprinted In0

There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted anywhere.

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1 Content Item
- [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]0

reprinted from some/all another Issue.

1 Content Item
- [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]1

reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.

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Cover, Front

Original Artwork

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Title Page

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Content Items (14 total)

Swamp of the Green Terror

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): Dan Zolnerowich

Inker(s): Dan Zolnerowich

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: jungle

Feature(s): Sheena

Character(s): Sheena; Bob Reynolds

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Pages: 1

Swamp of the Green Terror

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as W. Morgan Thomas] (credited)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: jungle

Feature(s): Sheena

Character(s): Sheena; Bob Reynolds; Queen Nada; Chim; Buta

First Line: I've never ridden an elephant as easy to...

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 12

Notes: Title is from the cover. Signed on last panel.

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Golleh] (credited)

Penciller(s): Bob Kane

Inker(s): Bob Kane

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Peter Pupp

Character(s): Peter Pupp; Tinymite; Zula; Professor Watt A. Dogg

First Line: In the last installment Peter and his friends...

Reprinting

From Content Item: Flag

Jumbo Comics #5 published January 1939
was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes: Page 1 is from Jumbo Comics #5, while page 2 is from Jumbo Comics #6.

Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Will Eisner ? [as Willis Rensie] (credited)

Penciller(s): Will Eisner; Art Saaf

Inker(s): Will Eisner; Art Saaf

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: historical

Feature(s): The Hawk

Character(s): The Hawk; Fluth; Claw Carlos; Count Richelle; Princess Helena; Murdock

First Line: A carriage draws up before the Four Bell Tavern...

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 9

Notes: 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).

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Teller Tayles] (credited)

Penciller(s): Charles Wotjkoski

Inker(s): Art Pinajian ?; Charles Wotjkoski ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Lightning

Character(s): Lightning [Fred Larkin]; General Larkin

First Line: Lightning strikes once, twice, three times to save...

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Bobby

Character(s): Bobby; Mr. Von Snitzel

First Line: Gee whiz! Just when the tenth chapter of...

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From Issue: Flag

Jumbo Comics #5 published January 1939

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Pee Wee

Character(s): Pee Wee Myers; his father

First Line: Son, come in here a minute...

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 0.33

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Uncle Otto

Character(s): Uncle Otto; unnamed drunkard

First Line: I won' eveh tosh an ozzer dwop!

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Pages: 0.67

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Curt Davis] (credited)

Penciller(s): Lou Fine; Iger/Eisner shop ?

Inker(s): Iger/Eisner shop ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Feature(s): Stuart Taylor

Character(s): Stuart Taylor; Ali Pasha; Dr. Hayward; The Great Khan

First Line: Taylor and Hayward have escaped my power,E

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Notes: This has all of the signs of a collage of panels from an early Lou Fine episode, tied together with shop art.

Murder By Telephone

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Toni Blum [as Tom Alexander] (credited)

Penciller(s): Nick Cardy ? (2 spot illustrations)

Inker(s): Nick Cardy ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: crime

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Major Thorpe] (credited)

Penciller(s): Charles Quinlan

Inker(s): Charles Quinlan

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: espionage

Feature(s): ZX-5 Spies In Action

Character(s): Jim Carson; Mike the "Mac"; Mary Lynn; Johnny the "Newsy"

First Line: Yes sir, I am Jim Carson. What can...

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Fred Sande] (credited)

Penciller(s): Lou Fine ?

Inker(s): Lou Fine ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: western

Feature(s): Wilton of the West

Character(s): Wilton; Mark Johnson; Amy Dolson; Pete Dolson; Sagawan

First Line: Galloping across the purple sage of the plains,E

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Pages: 7

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as George Thatcher] (credited)

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: mystery

Feature(s): Inspector Dayton

Character(s): Inspector Dayton; Wini; Oriental villain called only "The Master."

First Line: Inspector Dayton is at home when an urgent...

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Notes: This feels like early "Inspector Dayton" art reused. The style is very erratic and doesn't seem to be very unified. The story lacks cohesion as well.

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Charles Tansul] (credited)

Penciller(s): Charles Sultan

Inker(s): Charles Sultan

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: war

Feature(s): Tom, Dick, and Harry

Character(s): Tom Devlin; Dick Swenson; Harry Carson; Lord Angus McGregor; Jock

First Line: Tom, Dick and Harry, American aviators who have...

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Notes: Note that "Tansul" is an anagram of "Sultan".