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Issue: Liberty Scouts Comics #2

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Publication Date: June 1941

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Issues: #2 of 2 Issues

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Variant: unnamed

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Publisher: Flag

Centaur

Brand: none

Indicia Publisher: Comic Corporation of America

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: none

Pages: 68

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.15 CAD
$0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 13 (8 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Joseph Hardie [as Uncle Joe] (per inside front cover editorial)

Notes: Proper story order supplied by Gary Watson, March 2008.
Various art credits supplied by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr., March 2009.

June, 1941. Number 2. Liberty Scouts Comics is published bi-monthly by Comic Corporation of America, 215 Fourth Ave., New York, N. Y. Application for entry as second class matter pending at the Post Office at New York, N. Y. Single copies 10c. 15c in Canada. Yearly subscription 60c in the U.S.A. (other countries 85c). Copyright 1941 by Comic Corporation of America. Contents must not be reproduced without permission. No actual person is named or delineated in this fiction magazine. Printed in the U.S.A.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Golden Age US

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

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Content Items (13 total)

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Illustration on Cover, Front

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Feature(s): Liberty Scouts / Guards

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Pages: 1

Are You a Liberty Scout?

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Writer(s): Joseph Hardie [as Uncle Joe]

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Synopsis: Letter from the editor about the new magazine and proposing a Liberty Scouts Club. Readers are asked to write in if they like the magazine and the idea of such a club.

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Pages: 1

Notes: Inside front cover.

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Character(s): Liberty Scouts [Smokey Henry; Skipper Henry; Strut Henry] (introduction, origin); Mr. P. Henry (introduction, the Scouts' father); President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

First Line: In secret, using a mysterious weapon...

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Pages: 16

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Man of War (introduction, origin)

First Line: A malicious aggressor, urged on by the mighty Mars, god of war...

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Pages: 10

Notes: It's not clear who did what on this feature. Jerry Bails lists both Paul and Nils as pencil and inks.

All Gustavson credits, as they now appear above, verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Vapo-Man [Bradford Cole] (introduction, origin)

First Line: Here are the results of the last test, Doctor Kreiner

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Pages: 7

Notes: Signed on splash, also as S.G. in the corner of the final panel.

Army Insignia and What They Are

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Synopsis: Illustrated description of various Army insignia.

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Feature(s): Steve Crawford, Undercover Man

Character(s): Steve Crawford (introduciton)

First Line: Steve Crawford, ace federal man, has been sent to the Foster Aircraft Co....

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Pages: 6

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Fire-Man [Jim] (introduction, origin); Nancy (introduction); Nancy's uncle (villain, introduction, a scientist)

First Line: Where's the fire?

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Pages: 7

Notes: Jerry Bails lists Filchock as the writer as well as pen/ink

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Feature(s): Lucky Lee

Character(s): "Lucky" Lee Gates (introduction)

First Line: Lee Gates was exceedingly superstitious.

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Pages: 8

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Genres: adventure, humorous

Character(s): Dopey Danny Day (introduction); Gus Wilson (introduction)

First Line: Danny Patrick Day, also known as Dopey Day, does not hear...

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Highway Robbery

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Dopey Danny Day

First Line: Get me the Daily Flash,quick!

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Notes: 1-page story separate from the main Dopey Day story.

The Big Reward

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Genres: sports

Feature(s): Lightning Comics

Character(s): Biff Baker; Poison Parsons

First Line: It is the night of the big championshi fight...

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Pages: 1

Notes: Appears to be a 1-page boxing story in comic form, but the last panel reveals that the boxer was motivated by a copy of Lightning Comics (written in much heavier lettering), and the characters inside ("Flash Lighting, The Raven, Marvo, Dr. Nemesis and others").

Inside back cover.

This Beautiful Desk for Only $1.00

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Feature(s): Remington Noiseless Deluxe Portable Typewriter

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Pages: 1

Notes: Back cover.