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Issue: Jumbo Comics #24

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Publication Date: February 1941

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Detail

Issues: #24 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: 12/12/1940

Volume: 1

Pages: 68

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 13 (11 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 In1

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

reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue.

Reprinted From1

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

reprinted from some/all another Issue.

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Cover, Front

Original Artwork

Digital Edition

Adult Image

Title Page

Indicia on this Page

Assets0

Content Items (13 total)

Curse of the Black Venom

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): John Celardo ?

Inker(s): John Celardo ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: jungle

Feature(s): Sheena

Character(s): Sheena; Bob

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: I know why we're calling this Celardo, BUT it looks very different from signed Celardo cover on #27

Curse of the Black Venom

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

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

Penciller(s): Bob Powell

Inker(s): Bob Powell

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: jungle

Feature(s): Sheena

Character(s): Sheena; Bob Reynolds; Mbika; Gindii Oro; Dr. Mohammed Bey

First Line: Taking life easy after their last adventure, Sheena...

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 12

Notes: Title is taken from cover.

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Bobby

Character(s): Bobby; Gramps; Soapy; Petrovich; Jed

First Line: Yes, Bobby, collecting stamps is a very fine...

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

[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; Villains: Red Gregory; Fluth; Jeremy; Sagua

First Line: Bound for a port in the mysterious tropics...

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 10

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]

Cartoon on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as I. M. Leffin] (credited)

Penciller(s): Bob Kane ?

Inker(s): Bob Kane ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Jumbo Laffs

First Line: We'll be smashed to pieces!

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: If this is Bob Kane, then these must be reprints.
Four unrelated gag panels.

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

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

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Lightning

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

First Line: A spine-tingling story in which Lightning sends...

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Notes: Very grotesque art.

The Ghost In the Pantry

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

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

Penciller(s): ? (2 spot illustrations)

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: childrens

Character(s): Mrs. Thatcher; Mr. Thatcher; Nip; Tuck (twins)

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1.67

Notes: Feature includes 1/3 page Ownership Statement. Owner is J.G. Scott; T.T. Scott is Business Manager. 461-8th Ave. NYC

[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: childrens

Feature(s): Peter Pupp

Character(s): Colonel/King Riffraff; Professor Botts; Doctor Strom; Zula's robot

First Line: Last month, Peter and his companions reached the...

Reprinting

From Issue: Flag

Jumbo Comics #6 published February 1939

Reprint Notes: Pages 2 and 3 of the story in Jumbo Comics #6.

Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

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

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Feature(s): Stuart Taylor

Character(s): Stuart Taylor; Doctor Hayward; Laura Hayward

First Line: The age old desire of man for a...

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Notes: Possibly this is a collaged reprint from some of the early Jack Kirby episodes. The splash panel is certainly a reuse of the Stuart Taylor figure on the cover of Jumbo #10.

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

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

Penciller(s): Iger shop

Inker(s): Iger shop

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: espionage

Feature(s): ZX-5 Spies In Action

Character(s): Dr. Villiare; Johnny; Manya; De Gruz

First Line: An ancient and long disused chateau is the...

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Wings Comics #4 published June 1998
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Notes: Many diverse hands, and possibly a collage of earlier strips - certainly the splash panel is "adapted" from the cover of Jumbo #11.

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

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

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: western

Feature(s): Wilton of the West

Character(s): Wilton; Snorty; Sagawan; Gabby Wacko; Mexican Joe

First Line: The killer indian meets the vengeance of white...

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

Notes: Art is by a Lou Fine wannabe - or collaged from earlier Wilton strips?

The Mystery of the Two Headed Lady of the Circus.

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

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

Penciller(s): Whitmer Williams

Inker(s): Whitmer Williams

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: mystery

Feature(s): Inspector Dayton

Character(s): Inspector Dayton; Mitzi Dolan; Flora Dolan; Giglio the clown; Tino Marco the swordswallower

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

[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: adventure, aviation

Feature(s): Tom, Dick and Harry

Character(s): Tom Devlin; Dick Swenson; Harry Carson; Von Herman Leicher; Carl

First Line: Tom, Dick, and Harry, three American pilots fighting...

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Notes: Possible George Tuska involvement on page two.
Note that "Tasnul" is an anagram of "Sultan".