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Issue: The Double Life of Private Strong #1
Publication Date: June 1959
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Issues: #1 of 2 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagArchie Publications, Inc.
Brand: Archie Adventure SeriesView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Radio Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 9 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
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Format Notes:  
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New Action Champ of Comics!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Joe Simon; Jack Kirby (see notes)
Inker(s): Joe Simon; Jack Kirby (see notes)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Double Life of Private Strong
Character(s): Lancelot Strong
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagBlue Ribbon Comics #5 [Direct] published February 1984
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Kirby penciled the border art and possibly the background figures with Simon likely drawing Private Strong. Info per Nick Caputo, November 2016.
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Meet Lancelot Strong, The Man With The Double Life!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joe Simon ?; Jack Kirby ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Sam Rosen
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Double Life of Private Strong
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagArchie's Super Hero Special #1 published January 1978
as Meet Lancelot Strong, the Man with the Double Life [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagBlue Ribbon Comics #5 [Direct] published February 1984
as Meet Lancelot Strong [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Intro page.
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The Double Life of Private Strong

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joe Simon ?; Jack Kirby ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Sam Rosen
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Double Life of Private Strong
Character(s): The Shield; Professor Malcolm Fleming; Roger Fleming; Agent Four; Abel Strong; Martha Strong
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagArchie's Super Hero Special #1 published January 1978
as The Double Life of Private Strong [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagBlue Ribbon Comics #5 [Direct] published February 1984
as The Double Life of Private Strong [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Origin, which continues through the first 3 stories in the book.
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Spawn of the "X" World!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joe Simon ?; Jack Kirby ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Sam Rosen
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Double Life of Private Strong
Character(s): The Shield [Lancelot Strong]; Spud
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagArchie's Super Hero Special #1 published January 1978
as Spawn of the X-World [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagBlue Ribbon Comics #5 [Direct] published February 1984
as Spawn of the "X" World! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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The Hide-Out

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joe Simon ?; Jack Kirby ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Sam Rosen
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Fly
Character(s): The Fly
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagJCP Features [JCP Features the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents] #1 published December 1981
as The Hide-Out [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Kirby pencils and unknown inks per Harry Mendryk's Simon and Kirby blog:

http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/simonandkirby/archives/2564

Previous indexer credited Simon and Kirby as co-penciller and co-inker.
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Mystery of the Vanished Wreckage

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joe Simon ?; Jack Kirby ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Sam Rosen
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Double Life of Private Strong
Character(s): The Shield [Lancelot Strong]; Spud; Agent Four; Abel Strong; Martha Strong
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagArchie's Super Hero Special #1 published January 1978
as Mystery of the Vanished Wreckage [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagBlue Ribbon Comics #5 [Direct] published February 1984
as Mystery of the Vanished Wreckage [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Jungle Rogues!

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (illustration)
Inker(s): ? (illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): game commissioner (unnamed); Chief Nakuma; two Communist agents (unnamed)
Synopsis: Somewhere in Africa, a game commissioner is charged with exposing two "Red agents" who are trying to influence the natives into overthrowing the authorities. When a rogue elephant attacks the village, the commissioner saves the day, making the foreign agents look cowardly by comparison, and ending their nefarious plans.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Tommy Troy Teaches Judo

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joe Simon ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Sam Rosen
Subject Matter
Genres: martial arts
Character(s): Tommy Troy
Synopsis: Tommy demonstrates how to defend yourself against an attacker.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagBlue Ribbon Comics #1 published November 1983
as Tommy Troy Teaches Judo [Activity on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Unknown pencils and inks per Harry Mendryk's Simon and Kirby blog:

http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/simonandkirby/archives/2564

Previous indexer credited Joe Simon on pencils and inks,E
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The Menace of the Micro-Men!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joe Simon ?; Jack Kirby ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Sam Rosen
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Double Life of Private Strong
Character(s): The Shield [Private Lancelot Strong]; Sergeant Griper; Georgia Smith; Colonel Smith (Uncle); Doctor Diablq; micro-men
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagArchie's Super Hero Comics Digest Magazine #2 published January 1979
as The Menace of the Micro Men [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagBlue Ribbon Comics #5 [Direct] published February 1984
as The Menace of the Micro-Men! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8

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