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Issue: America's Greatest Comics #1 Public Domain
Publication Date: January 1941
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Issues: #1 of 8 Issues
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Publisher: FlagFawcett
Brand: A Fawcett PublicationView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Fawcett Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 10/15/1941
Volume: none
Pages: 100
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.15 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 14 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): France Herron
Disclose Notes: Some sources (Golden Age Comics at http://goldenagecomics.co.uk/index.php?cid=3) list the publication date as March 1941. Roy Thomas reports Fall 1941, in Error Report #2568. Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide (35th Ed) lists May? 1941. Gerber lists the publication date as 10-15-41. Copyright Registration publication date is Oct 15, 1941.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S.
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Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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[untitled]

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Colorist(s): ?
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Spy Smasher [Alan Armstrong]; Bulletman [Jim Barr]; Minute Man [Jack Weston]; Mr. Scarlet [Brian Butler]
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In Issue: FlagFlashback #25 published ?
In Content Item: FlagMen of Mystery Comics #21 published January 2000
as America's Greatest Comics [Text Article on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Shazam! Archives #3 published January 2002
as Cover - America's Greatest Comics #1 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Shazam! Archives #3 published January 2002
as Cover Gallery [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
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Marvel Comics' Free $25.00 Prize Contest

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First Line: You can win $5.00 first prize
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Interior front cover contest for the fan base to write their favorite Marvel Comics character and send to the editor.
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Ghost of the Deep

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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Sterling Morris; Hugo (villain, a scientist, introduction, death); The Ghost of the Deep [Spriggins] (villain, chief newscaster of the Monopoly Broadcasting Company, introduction, death); unnamed members of the Ghost's gang (villains, introduction for all, all die)
First Line: In a secluded laboratory, hidden somewhere in the vast metropolis...
Synopsis: A mysterious character, calling himself The Ghost of the Deep, kills to get a formula that will enable him to solve America's invasion problem: by sinking government ships with a mysterious force. Captain Marvel heads to the west coast to see if he can discover the cause and put a stop to it.
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In Issue: FlagFlashback #25 published ?
In Content Item: FlagThe Shazam! Archives #3 published January 2002
as Ghost of the Deep [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 20
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You've Seen Them All...But You Haven't Seen Anything Yet!

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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Master Comics
Character(s): Bulletman; Shazam; Captain Nazi
First Line: It's going to be double-fun, double-action & double-thrills...
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The Riddle of the Ages

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Bulletman [Jim Barr]; Bulletgirl [Susan Kent]; The Invisible Man (villain, introduction)
First Line: Murder lurks in the back streets...
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In Issue: FlagFlashback #25 published ?
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Pages: 18
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Death Doesn't Whisper

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First Line: Tip Moreno finds out too late that there are tricks in every trade...
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In Issue: FlagFlashback #25 published ?
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Pages: 2
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Minute Man Meets Mr. Skeleton

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Minute Man; Mr. Skeleton (villain, introduction, death); Franklin D. Roosevelt (guest star)
First Line: Minute Man – don't attempt to rescue us – it's too terrible!
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In Issue: FlagFlashback #25 published ?
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Pages: 18
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Genres: childrens, humorous
First Line: We need tackling practise badly...
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In Issue: FlagFlashback #25 published ?
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Pages: 2
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If it's the Best you're looking for...

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): various
Inker(s): various
Colorist(s): various
Letterer(s): ?; typeset
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First Line: Follow these famous characters in Whiz and Master Comics.
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Pages: 1
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The Coming of America Smasher

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Genres: espionage, superhero
Character(s): Spy Smasher [Alan Armstrong]; Eve Corby; Admiral Corby; America Smasher (villain, introduction)
First Line: Spy Smasher finds there are two kinds of rats that live in sewers and the human rats who would try to destroy the U.S. are more dangerous and more poisonous than the four-legged kind.
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In Issue: FlagFlashback #25 published ?
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Pages: 18
Disclose Notes: This is not America Smasher's first appearance, as Spy Smasher is surprised to see him alive.
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Genres: non-fiction
First Line: The herring gull has a very keen eyesight and can recognize its mate at thirty yards...
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The Death Battalion

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Mr. Scarlet [Brian Butler]; Pinky Butler; The Death Battalion [Horned Hood; Ghost, Black Clown; Thorn; Laughing Skull; Dr. Death; Brain [Loomis] (introduction)] (villains)
First Line: As though back from the grave, six sinister criminal masterminds return...
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In Issue: FlagFlashback #25 published ?
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Pages: 15
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Spy Smasher no. 2

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First Line: America's number one spy fighter in another great hit!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Interior back cover.
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A Thrill on Every Page

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Feature(s): Mechanix Illustrated
First Line: That's what Mechanix Illustrated offers every live-wire boy
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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