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Issue: Jumbo Comics #27

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Publication Date: May 1941

Issue #27
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- #21
- #22
- #23
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- #25
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- #36
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Issues: #27 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: 03/05/1941

Volume: 1

Pages: 68

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 13 (12 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Malcolm Reiss (Editor); S. M. Iger (art director)

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. 2.

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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

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Content Items (13 total)

Sabre-Tooth Terror

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): John Celardo [as Celardo] (signed)

Inker(s): John Celardo [as Celardo] (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: jungle

Feature(s): Sheena

Character(s): Sheena; Bob Reynolds

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Pages: 1

Notes: I think this is the first signed Celardo we've seen.

Saber-Tooth Terror

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

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

Penciller(s): Bob Powell [as Powell] (signed)

Inker(s): Bob Powell [as Powell] (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: jungle

Feature(s): Sheena

Character(s): Sheena; Bob Reynolds; Chim; Capt. Starling of the R.A.F.

First Line: Bored with hum-drum village life, Sheena, Bob and...

Synopsis: A primitive land beneath an active volcano can be reached on foot and by plane.

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Pages: 12

Notes: Signature found in final panel.

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

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

Penciller(s): Sy Reit

Inker(s): Sy Reit

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Feature(s): Stuart Taylor

Character(s): Stuart Taylor; Lucretia Borgia; Dr. Hayward; The Duke of Farrara; Laura

First Line: Stuart travels to l5th century Venice via the...

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Pages: 6

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Bobby

Character(s): Bobby; Shinynose; Tubby; Slim Pickens; Tiny

First Line: Mister, if you're paintin' our old club house...

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Pages: 1

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Robert Webb

Inker(s): Robert Webb

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: western

Feature(s): Midnight the Black Stallion

Character(s): Mexican Joe; Pedro

First Line: Midnight is now a two year old, tamed...

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Pages: 6

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

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

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): Maxwell Elkan ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Lightning

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

First Line: Glad you came to see our war games...

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Pages: 6

Notes: This is a good artist, and some of the poses call to mind Captain Marvel... Hames suggests Maxwell Elkan, but I don't see him in the pencils.

Jungle Juggernaut

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Frank Marshall] (credited)

Penciller(s): ? (2 spot illustrations)

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: jungle

Character(s): Jim Evans; Randi; Battleship the elephant

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Pages: 2

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Geo. Thatcher] (credited)

Penciller(s): Art Saaf

Inker(s): Art Saaf

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: mystery

Feature(s): Inspector Dayton

Character(s): Inspector Dayton; Pu Kang; Tong Brothers of the Gold Cobra; Hai Foon; Dr. Sung; Wini; Pock Ning

First Line: Into a fog-bound harbor steams a freighter returning...

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Pages: 7

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

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

Penciller(s): Witmer Williams; Iger shop

Inker(s): Witmer Williams; Iger shop

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: espionage

Feature(s): ZX-5 Spies In Action

Character(s): ZX-5; Colonel Sparting; Fraulein X

First Line: A wild chase through the war-covered hills of...

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Pages: 8

Notes: Same "shadow" artist as on #25 & 26, but Witmer Williams takes over on pages 3 and 5-8.

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Pee Wee

Character(s): Pee Wee Myers; Lazy Lenny

First Line: Gosh, here comes lazy Lenny down the street...

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Pages: 0.5

Black Thoughts

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Uncle Otto

Character(s): Uncle Otto

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Pages: 0.5

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

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

Penciller(s): Robert Webb

Inker(s): Robert Webb

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: war

Feature(s): Tom, Dick, and Harry

Character(s): Tom Devlin; Dick Swenson; Harry Carson; Sally

First Line: Tom Devlin, Dick Swenson, and Harry Carson, American buddies...

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Pages: 5

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

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Will Eisner ? [as Willis B. Rensie] (credited); Art Saaf

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; Edmund Burley [The Hawk's double]; Rosina; Caleb; Fluth; Jeremy

First Line: The New Orleans wharves swarm with the riff-raff...

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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).