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Issue: The Fly [Adventures of the Fly] #4

- Attribution History

Publication Date: January 1960

Issue #4
- #1
- #2
- #3
- ✔ #4
- #5
- #6
- Show Variants
- Adventures of the Fly

Detail

Issues: #4 of 6 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Archie Publications, Inc.

Brand: Archie Adventure Series

Indicia Publisher: Radio Comics Inc.

On Sale Date: 10/29/1959

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): John Goldwater

Notes: On-sale date from 1959 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.

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Format

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

Format Notes:

Reprinted In1

1 Content Item
- Slide Rule's Challenge [Story on Interior Page(s)]1

reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue.

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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.

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Cover, Front

Original Artwork

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Title Page

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Content Items (6 total)

Muggsy's Masterpieces

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): Joe Simon

Inker(s): Joe Simon ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): The Fly

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Duped by the Dazzler

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Joe Simon ?

Penciller(s): Ted Galindo; Joe Simon ? (see notes)

Inker(s): Chic Stone; Joe Simon ? (see notes)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Martin Epp ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): The Fly

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

Notes: Simon may have provided some inking or art alterations. Info per Nick Caputo, November 2016.

Police Grips

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Joe Simon ?

Penciller(s): Bob Powell

Inker(s): Bob Powell ?; Joe Simon ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Martin Epp ?

Subject Matter

Genres: martial arts

Feature(s): Bobby Bell's Judo Page

Character(s): Bobby Bell

Synopsis: Bobby shows a Judo move and relates some Judo history.

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Muggsy's Masterpieces

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Joe Simon ?

Penciller(s): Joe Simon ?; Neal Adams (one panel)

Inker(s): Joe Simon ?; Neal Adams (one panel)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Martin Epp ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): The Fly

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 9

Notes: The first published work by Neal Adams. Adams brought sample pages to Archie looking for work, was rejected, but they did want to use a panel from his samples to replace a panel in this story that was considered substandard (the last panel of the first page of this story). http://www.webcitation.org/5lJycKN5e

Power Pak

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Joe Simon ?

Penciller(s): Sol Brodsky (signed)

Inker(s): Joe Simon ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Martin Epp ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): The Shield

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Notes: Possible Simon inks per Nick Caputo, January 2018. Previous indexer credited Brodsky.

Slide Rule's Challenge

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Joe Simon ?

Penciller(s): Bob Powell

Inker(s): Bob Powell ?; Joe Simon ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Martin Epp ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): The Fly

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Blue Ribbon Comics #10 [Direct] published July 1984
as Slide Rule's Challenge [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 8