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Issue: Jumbo Comics #28

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Publication Date: June 1941

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Issues: #28 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: 04/14/1941

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)

The Devil of the Congo

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: jungle

Character(s): Sheena

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The Devil of the Congo

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

Colorist(s): ?

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Subject Matter

Genres: jungle

Character(s): Sheena; Bob Reynolds; Chim; Commissioner Fletcher; Mrs. Fletcher; Great Black Father

First Line: An annual ceremonial visit of good will to...

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Pages: 12

Notes: Story title is taken from the cover. Is Bob Powell still doing the Sheena figures? Keith Chandler agrees with this suggestion - the inking, at least.

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

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

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Feature(s): Stuart Taylor in Weird Stories of the Supernatural

Character(s): Stuart Taylor; Dr. Hayward; Laura Hayward

First Line: From what dark past did civilization come?

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Pages: 6

[untitled]

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Genres: childrens, humorous

Feature(s): Bobby

Character(s): Bobby; Stub

First Line: Do ya like rain drops, Stub?

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[untitled]

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Genres: western

Character(s): Midnight (a black stallion); Red Beard; Cisco Kid [Rick in disguise]

First Line: Midnight, captured as a colt by the ranger's...

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Pages: 6

[untitled]

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

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Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

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

First Line: Army air corps planes crash mysteriously...the Texas...

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Pages: 6

Notes: Same artist as last issue. Slight indications of Elkan here, but this artist is more sophisticated than LATER signed Elkan at Quality (Samar) and there's a humorous aspect to this that is not present in known early Elkan.

Vulture Bait

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

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

Penciller(s): ? (2 spot illustrations)

Inker(s): ? (2 spot illustrations)

Colorist(s): ? (2 spot illustrations)

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: jungle

Character(s): Rex Griffin; Tommy

First Line: Rex Griffin stumbled up the dusty trail...

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Pages: 2

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

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

Colorist(s): ?

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Subject Matter

Genres: mystery

Feature(s): Inspector Dayton

Character(s): Inspector Dayton; Dr. Sung; Squealer; Red Bruser

First Line: The dealer of death shuffles his pack of...

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Pages: 7

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

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

Colorist(s): ?

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Subject Matter

Genres: espionage

Feature(s): ZX-5 Spies In Action

Character(s): ZX-5; Herr Brecker; Gretchen Brecker; Captain Bung

First Line: This precision anti-aircraft shell will be most valuable...

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Pages: 8

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Uncle Otto

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[untitled]

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Genres: childrens, humorous

Feature(s): Pee Wee

Character(s): Pee Wee Myers; Frankie

First Line: Gee! You shoulda seen Spec juggle four balls...

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[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

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

Penciller(s): ?

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Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: war

Feature(s): Tom, Dick, and Harry

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

First Line: Tom, Dick and Harry...American buddies, fly for...

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Pages: 5

Notes: Same artist as previously seen on Lightning, perhaps with help from Rudy Palais on last page. Hames sees Maxwell Elkan here, but likely to be only on inks.

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

[untitled]

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Subject Matter

Genres: historical

Character(s): The Hawk; Caleb; Fluth; Duke Don Rafiello Castagna (villain); Fat Tom (introduction); Corgo (introduction); Marguerite Cortes (introduction)

First Line: The tiny island of Cay Verde in the...

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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).