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Issue: Silver Streak Comics #17 Public Domain
Publication Date: December 1941
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Issues: #17 of 23 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagLev Gleason
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Indicia Publisher: New Friday Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/05/1941
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 12 (11 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1941, New Series, Vol. 36, No. 4.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: full color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Captain Battle; Silver Streak
Character(s): Captain Battle [Jonathan Battle]; Hale Battle; Silver Streak; Meteor [Mickey O'Toole]
First Line: The great, the one and only Captain Battle and his courageous young pal Hale are called upon to free the nation from Nazi plotters...
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In Issue: FlagAction! Mystery! Thrills! Comic Book Covers of the Golden Age: 1933-45 #[nn] published December 2011
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Laffs
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: On inside front cover.
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The Death Ray

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Captain Battle [Jonathan Battle]; Hale Battle; Dr. Dracula (intro; death); Professor Fosdick
Synopsis: A group of men appear to be vampires, but are revealed to be simply Nazis wearing glider wings.
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Pages: 13
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The Duke of Pyewk

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, historical
Feature(s): The Pirate Prince
Character(s): The Pirate Prince; Lady Marie; The Duke of Pyewk
First Line: The Pirate Prince's ship drops anchor...
Synopsis: The Pirate Prince drops anchor and a party goes ashore to get tree trunks to replace a broken spar. They are attacked by a group of violent natives, but are saved by a large gorilla, who is taken aboard and named Bombo. Some time later, Prince visits Lady Marie, only to find she is betrothed to the Duke of Pyewk. Prince saves Marie and substitutes Bombo in her wedding dress and face-covering veil. At the wedding ceremony Pyewk lifts the veil to kiss the bride and gets the shock of his life.
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Pages: 5
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The Moving Idol

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, jungle
Feature(s): Cloud Curtis
Character(s): Cloud Curtis
First Line: Weird, blood-demanding gods of the past...
Synopsis: The Golden Bullet fails to respond to Cloud's piloting and crash lands in the South American jungle. Traveling on foot, Cloud encounter crocodiles, pythons and other jungle dangers, but eventually comes to a clearing, where there is large idol of Ratzinatzi, the demon god of the ancient Incas. Before his eyes the statue moves backwards.
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Pages: 5
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The Sea of Death

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): The Bingham Boys
Character(s): Bobby Bingham; Billy Bingham; Dusty Travis; Specs; Count Buloe
Synopsis: Bobby, Billy, Dusty and Specs are traveling home on board of a liner, when through a porthole Count Buloe spots Dusty with the fabled sword of Genghis Khan. Billy and Bobby thwart his plans to steal it. His henchmen approach in a small craft and Dusty makes the count gesture for them to approach, at which point they are captured.
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Pages: 6
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Captain Battle's Gamble With Death, or, Saving a Wretched Life

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain Battle [Jonathan Battle]; Hale Battle; Richard Blaine
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Pages: 3
Disclose Notes: Text story with two illustrations.
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The Kingdom of the Ghoul

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Daredevil [Bart Hill]; The Ghoul (intro); Tonia Saunders
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Pages: 9
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Genres: humorous, military
Feature(s): Men On Patrol
First Line: There's a foreign looking plane up there!
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Pages: 1
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The Glitter Girl and the Hillbilly

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, mystery
Feature(s): Presto Martin, "Quick Change Detective"
Character(s): Captain Presto Martin; Mr. Goldbyn; Rose Marie Hatchett; Amos L. Hokum
First Line: Time and again...
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Pages: 5
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The Ghost Ships

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Dickie Dean, the Boy Inventor
Character(s): Dickie Dean; "Zip" Todd
First Line: Across the seas...
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: The Who's Who give Fred West as a pen name for Schwab, while comparison with other signed Schwab work seems to confirm it.

The final panel shows "Zip" reading a newspaper. One of the headlines reads "Daredevil Saves President".
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The Reign of Death

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Silver Streak & Meteor
Character(s): Silver Streak; Meteor
Synopsis: Silver Streak and Meteor respond to a report telling of Nazis overrunning a South American nation.
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Pages: 8

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