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Issue: Sparkler Comics #4
Publication Date: October 1941
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Issues: #4 of 120 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagUnited Feature
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: United Feature Syndicate Inc.
On Sale Date: 1941
Volume: 2
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 16 (12 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S., later standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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The Case of Spark Man and the Firefly

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Spark Man; Mary Boyle; Tarzan; Nancy; Abbie; Slats; Broncho Bill; The Captain; Hanz Katzenjammer; Franz Katzenjammer; Dynamite Dunn; Ella Cinders
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The Case of the Firefly

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Spark Man [Quill Davis]; Val Hall; Omar Kavak; Edwards; Firefly; Mary Boyle; Scabby Sarto; Mr. Boyle
Synopsis: The Firefly is burning buildings.
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): El Bombo
Character(s): El Bombo; Otto
First Line: Police question Bombo about the thugs who'd entered his hotel room and tried to rob him--
Synopsis: El Bombo falls in love with the image of a woman on a billboard. He also gets a job as a "bouncer" in a nightclub but isn't really clear on the concept.
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Genres: jungle
First Line: Tarzan and the band of pioneers...
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): King Bombo II; The Captain; King Archibald; Mrs. Katzenjammer; Hanz Katzenjammer; Fritz Katzenjammer; Irving; Joe; Bloodshot
First Line: When the pygmy soldiers refused to fight, it was decided that King Bombo and the pygmy king should settle the island feud in a winner-take-all boxing match.
Synopsis: The Pygmy King beats King Bombo and takes over his island.
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Dilbury Dingle; Danny Dingle; Ma Dingle; Gomez; Don Miguel Cervantes de Campos
First Line: Danny--we're set!
Synopsis: Dilbury and Danny travel to the Central American country of Concarnio with Gomez on a "gold deal." Dilbury runs afoul of the wealthy don Miguel.
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Russia Honors Artist

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Genres: non-fiction
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Genres: humorous
First Line: Look, Sluggo!
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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Dynamite Dunn; Tod Jones; Oboi; Harvey Skweel
First Line: Dynamite and his friend Tod Jones are fighting the racket of the evil and mysterious "headman" on the island of Utopago where their plane was forced down.
Synopsis: The headman has Tod prisoner and wants $5000 from Dunn and his promise that Dunn and Todd will leave the island.
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A Fugitive From Injustice

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Character(s): Broncho Bill; Blackie (horse); Gone-Again Jones; Queenie (horse); Scarface Simmons
Synopsis: Broncho discovers his friend is wanted for murder.
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Disclose Notes: Each page has an individual title, A Fugitive from Injustice, Scarface, In the Night, Clutching Fingers, War Whoops.
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Chris Crusty; Ella Cinders; Blackie Cinders
First Line: This animal is the didelphys virginiana of Algonquin origin - it is about two and a half feet long including the prehensile tail!
Synopsis: Blackie is shocked to find out what a swan's neck looks like.
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Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): Sparkler Salutes
Character(s): Kaywin Lehman; Helen Lehman; Jeanne Turner; Lorin Maazel (young conductor)
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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Frankie Doodle; Captain Ku
First Line: While Captain Ku returns the old gardener to jail, for fear of poisoning, Frankie watches the old Archis Mansion and follows a mysterious hooded figure through the wood until it stops, to begin digging
Synopsis: Frankie follows a mysterious cloaked figure in the woods bury an object.
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Character(s): Dickie Gooney; Slats [Aubrey Scrapple]; Becky Groggins
First Line: When Dickie Gooney, the boy movie star, found that Becky wasn't at the great party he gave at his haunted mansion in hopes of meeting her again, he called it off...
Synopsis: Dickie tries to spend some time alone with Becky at the haunted mansion.
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Louis Daguerre

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Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): Louis Daguerre
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Disclose Notes: Information on Louis Daguerre's discovery of quick photographic development, three towns in Minnesota that combine to spell out the name of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and male nighthawks.
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Character(s): Bob; Ned; Frank Leahy
First Line: Boy! The Bike Keds I am wearing were built for fast starts
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Disclose Notes: Ad for Keds shoes.

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