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Issue: The Fly [Adventures of the Fly] #2
Publication Date: September 1959
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Issues: #2 of 6 Issues (7 Printings)
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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: 06/29/1959
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 9 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from 1959 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing
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Tim O'Casey's Wrecking Crew

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Fly; Tim O'Casey
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Tim O'Casey's Wrecking Crew!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Fly [Tommy Troy]; Tim O'Casey; Bertrand; Drews; Finn MacCool; Mr. March
Synopsis: A sharpie named Drews is dogged by "not a midget", but a real leprechaun who thinks Drews stoles the treasure horde of Finn MacCool from Ireland! The leprechaun sics giant robots on Drews. Tommy Troy becomes The Fly, hides Drews in a cave, smashes robots, and stuffs the leprechaun in a trash can. Drews is visited by the ghost of Finn MacCool and confesses he stole the treasure and sank it off-shore. The Fly posed as Finn. The leprechaun thanks him for this kind deeds and vanishes.
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In Content Item: FlagBlue Ribbon Comics #10 [Direct] published July 1984
as Tim O'Casey's Wrecking Crew [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Joe Simon may have pencilled and/or inked pages 1;3-4, with Ayers/Reinman on the remainder.
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The Sea Tiger

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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One of Our Skyscrapers Is Missing!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Fly [Tommy Troy]; Dolly
Synopsis: One morning, citizens find a big hole where a skyscraper stood. The Fly dives down and meets Toad(?) People who plan an invasion, so staged a test by stealing the skyscraper. The Fly battles a Mud Toad(?) in the arena, then a long-necked dinosaur-beast. The Toads are convinced an attack would be suicidal and return the skyscraper.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSunny Sun #20 published September 1978
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagBlue Ribbon Comics #1 published November 1983
as One of Our Skyscrapers Is Missing [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Simon script per reprint in Blue Ribbon Comics (Archie, 1983 Series) #1
The previous indexer credited "Joe Simon ?".
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Sneak Attack

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Shield
Synopsis: An "enemy" fleet of bombers soars toward an "unsuspecting country". The Shield jumps atop a wing and fires lightning bolts, dodges shells, crashes jets, and wrecks the fleet. The Army thinks it "must have been a stray meteor or a freak storm." The Shield is "The Man Who Spies on Spies!"
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: A cleverly disguised and self-admitted "sneaky way to introduce" The Shield, featured in The Double Life of Private Strong, the second issue of which is shown and advertised as "Now On Sale!".
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Marcos Eyes [sic]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Fly [Tommy Troy]; Mister Marco; Dolly; Slats Dillon; J.B. Bascombe; Dolly
Synopsis: At a talent show, Marco loses. He gets mobsters to finance a big-eyed billboard that hypnotizes bankers and jewelers to steal goods and deliver to thugs. The Fly beats a thug and learns the sign has periscope and speaker that magnifies Marco's hypnotism. The Fly enters and is hypnotized, but cons Marco into taking a bow, breaking his glare. "The 'eyes' have it!"
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In Issue: FlagAtemi #9 published ?
In Content Item: FlagArchie's Super Hero Special #1 published January 1978
as Marco's Eyes [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Kirby pencils per Harry Mendryk's Simon and Kirby blog:

http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/simonandkirby/archives/tag/fly

Previous indexer credited Simon as co-penciller.
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Wolf Pack!

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Synopsis: A RCMP Mountie adopted a wolf pup named "Lobo" who returned to a wolf pack. Years later the Mountie was ambushed by a criminal but saved by a huge wolf leading a pack. "I'm pretty sure it was Lobo saved my life that day."
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Pages: 1
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Bobby Bell's Judo Page

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Bobby Bell
Character(s): Bobby Bell; hapless opponent
Synopsis: Bobby Bell, Captain of the Young Shields of America, demonstrates how to defend yourself against a heavier opponent.
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Pages: 1
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The Master of Junk-Ri-La!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Fly [Tommy Troy]; Hans Yunkmann; Mister March
Synopsis: Cruel Mister March takes Tommy's fly ring for slacking washing floors. Later a junk-plane flies over the city and rips out bank vaults with magnetism. The plane lands in the desert where Hans Yunkmann, the "Junkman", crafted the plane for thugs. Another pass over town rips loose metal, and Tommy snatches his ring from the air. Becoming The Fly, he flies to the desert, dodges thugs and a giant mechanical flyswatter. He sets the magnetism machine to trigger too high, and super-magnetism rips the compound apart. Back home, Tommy gets permission to retrieve his ring.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSunny Sun #20 published September 1978
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLittle Archie Comics Digest Annual #3 published November 1978
as The Master of Junk-Ri-La! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagBlue Ribbon Comics #1 published November 1983
as The Master of Junk-Ri-La [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Simon script per reprint in Blue Ribbon Comics (Archie, 1983 Series) #1
The previous indexer credited Kirby as co-writer.

Kirby pencils per Harry Mendryk's blog:
http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/simonandkirby/archives/tag/fly
Previous indexer credited Simon as co-penciller.

Possible Reinman inking assistance per Nick Caputo.
Previous indexer credited Kirby as co-inker.

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