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Issue: Top Notch Comics #22 Public Domain
Publication Date: December 1941
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Issues: #22 of 27 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagArchie Publications, Inc.
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: M. L. J. Magazines Inc.
On Sale Date: 10/10/1941
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 15 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Harry Shorten
Disclose Notes: On sale date from the publication date as submitted to the U.S. Copyright Office found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1941, New Series, Volume 36, Number 3. Class B periodical. Copyright registration number B 534507.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover, newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Black Hood [Kip Burland]; Wizard [Blane Whitney]; Roy
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Pages: 1
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Here they are!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover. Ad for various mail order rings, talismans and charms.
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The Stars Drip Blood

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Black Hood [Kip Burland]; Scorpio; Dutch Gordon; Strecchi; Sgt. McGinty; Clancy; Barbara Sutton
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Pages: 14
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Wizard [Blane Whitney]; Roy the Super-Boy; Nazi Bund; Mr. Schultz; Heinrich; Jane Barlow
First Line: An elderly storekeeper...
Synopsis: The Nazi Bund is forcing German-Americans to join them and contribute large sums of money.
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Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: This must be Lucey when comparing the close-up front view faces with ears directed outwards, as in his signed Hangman Special Case No.5 in #2.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ?
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Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: espionage
Character(s): Fran Frazer (photographer); Hal Davis (reporter); Premier Kherman
First Line: The only obstacle standing in the way...
Synopsis: A meeting place for spies and plotters in Iran.
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Originally credited to Irv Novick, but the movement of the figures are too stiff and awkward, and none of his faces are found here. Notice inking and the narrow pointed ears, which can be found in some other stories in Fran Frazer and Zambini, Zip Comics #23.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Keith Kornell; General Rael
First Line: Keith Kornell and his men of the combat engineers are on their way back to their camp...
Synopsis: A bridge washes out trapping a bus full of kids in a valley, including General Rael's son.
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Pages: 5
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Character(s): Firefly [Harley Hudson]; Shark-Man [Lobrow]; Mr. Masters; Linda Harlow
First Line: The Shark-Man, mystery monster of the deep, has been killing divers digging for pearls...
Synopsis: Masters and Harlow are partners in a pearl bed. Masters schemes to buy out Linda's share of the pearl bed by making the endeavor unprofitable.
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Subject Matter
Genres: sports
Character(s): St. Louis Kid [Jim Jennings]; Robert Dykes; Willis; Molloy; Vic Gouno
First Line: 8, 9, 10 yer out!
Synopsis: The Kid is to fight against a big gorilla.
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Pages: 6
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Wilbur in December Zip Comics, Archie in December Pep Comics, They're a Riot!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Sy Reit ? (promo copy)
Penciller(s): Sy Reit (signed)
Inker(s): Sy Reit (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Feature(s): Wilbur; Archie
Character(s): Wilbur Wilkin; J. Frank Wilkin; unnamed police officer; Archie Andrews [Archibald Andrews; Chick]; Fred Andrews; Edna Andrews
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Disclose Notes: Promotional advertisement the December releases of Wilbur in Zip Comics (Archie, 1940 Series) #21 and Archie's feature start in Pep Comics (Archie, 1940 Series) #22.

Archie has dark hair in this promotional advertisement.

First cameo appearance in comic books of Archie (Top Notch Comics #22 released 5 days prior to Pep Comics #22 per the Catalog of Copyright Entries). Not a preview but specific artwork done for this promo only and not reprinted in Pep Comics. Reit's signature in lower left hand corner.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: aviation, war
Character(s): Wings Johnson; Henry Higgins
First Line: Nazi bombers attempt to break through Britain's defenses...
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Pages: 6
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Bob Phantom [Walt Whitney]; Jinx Friday (secretary); Charlie Adams; Bugs Stanley (racketeer)
First Line: With a wild swinging of steel cables...
Synopsis: Bob Phantom saves a man from a falling steel girders. It was meant to kill him by "accident".
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Originally credited to Bernard Klein, but this has none of his small heads with angry eyebrows in sideview. It is identical to King's signed stories in #19.
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Jackpot Comics #3
Character(s): Steel Sterling; Clancy; Looney; Sgt. Boyle; Corporal Collins; Black Hood [Kip Burland]
First Line: Steel Sterling faced a deadline - a deadline of death!
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Subject Matter
Genres: occult, superhero
Character(s): Kardak; Jeff Blane; Sally Blane; Cyrus Malcolm (millionaire); Ellen; Purnell
First Line: In the teeming tenement sections of New York...
Synopsis: A daughter of one of the richest men in America was given the bounce when she married young Blane.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Originally credited to Paul Reinman, but no wedge shaped faces with eyes out of line here. The art is similar to Montana's signed St. Louis Kid story, and he is credited on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?; typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Red Ryder
First Line: Ready for Christmas
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover. Ad for Daisy air rifles and for a Daisy catalog.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): ?; Fred Harman (signed); ? (photographs)
Inker(s): ?; Fred Harman (signed); ? (photographs)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Red Ryder; Gene Autry (photograph); Sonja Henie (photograph)
First Line: Prizes! They're yours!
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Disclose Notes: Back cover. Ad by the American Specialty Co.

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