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Issue: Pocket Comics #2 Public Domain
Publication Date: September 1941
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Issues: #2 of 4 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagHarvey
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Alfred Harvey
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 100
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.15 CAD
$0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 14 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: POCKET COMICS, Volume 1, number 2, September 1941. Published Bi-monthly by Alfred Harvey, 67 West 44th Street, New York, N. Y. Entered as second class matter April 18, 1941, at the Post Office in New York, under Act of March 3, 1879. Copyright 1941, by Alfred Harvey, New York, N. Y., U. S. A. Price 10 cents per copy. In Canada 15 cents per copy. Subscription for six issues, 60 cents in U. S. A. (Other countries 85 cents). No actual person is named or delineated in this fiction magazine. Printed in U. S. A.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: digest size
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
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Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Spirit of '76 Battles Satan

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Black Cat; Spirit of '76; Satan
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Joe Simon's "My Life in Comics" states that he drew the covers to issues #1 - #3 of this series. Some disagree for this issue, saying that Bob Powell is a possibility but there's not enough to the cover to say for certain.
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Cadet Blakely Spirit of '76 Battles Satan Lord of Evil

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Writer(s): ? [as Major Ralston]
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Satan (villain)
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Pages: 24
Disclose Notes: Does not appear to be the same artist who did Spirit of '76 in issue #1.
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First Line: Red Blazer, by means of his super powers...
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Pages: 12
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Writer(s): ? [as Ellery King]
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First Line: A cruel racket victimizing helpless beggars...
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The Missing Microfilms

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Black Cat; Rick Horne; Garboil (villain)
First Line: Film director Garboil dominates the set...
Synopsis: While filming "Oriental Zephyr," Garboil's set is disrupted by two F.B.I. agents who are looking for some microfilms which were stolen by a German spy. Linda reads a blurb in a gossip column which makes her suspect that Garboil stole the microfilms. She changes to Black Cat to investigate. Rick Horne joins her when he realizes she is going after Garboil. She recovers the microfilms from Garboil and turns them over to the Navy.
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The Black Cat and the Doomed Orphans

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Black Cat {Linda Turner]
Synopsis: Linda is visiting her hometown of Smokeyville, where her aunt and uncle live, when a fire breaks out at the local orphanage. She changes to the Black Cat to save the children, then discovers proof that the fire was deliberately set by Smokeyville's corrupt mayor.
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[untitled]

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First Line: Two Terrific Comic Features!
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Disclose Notes: House ad for Speed Comics #14.
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First Line: Spin Hawkins, ace air pilot...
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Feature(s): Pocket Puzzles
First Line: What is Mrs. Charget ordering from the butcher?
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Disclose Notes: Includes illustrations.
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Genres: humorous, military
First Line: Gosh! I nearly forgot...
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Genres: superhero
First Line: On the wind-swept desert...
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Pages: 12
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? [as Wm. Churchill Jr.]
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First Line: Dot Britisher nearly caught me in der trap.
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Pages: 12
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Spy: I came here on a great mission.
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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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[untitled]

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First Line: By Popular Demand
Synopsis: House ad for Speed Comics.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Only art is reproduction of the cover of Speed Comics 14 and splash panel reproductions of 5 stories.

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